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Theres one at the dumbarton assistance line. Many calls are from people who bridge westbound at the high rise with an ambulance are homeless. Where do i find washing stations, showers, bathrooms . Dispatched. Theres also been southbound today, where do i find a place 880 at the warm springs off to charge my cell phone . Ramp. Pedestrian hit there. And also serious crash. The libraries are closed. We had a couple of earlier quiet on the streets. Crashes where people are that creates less activity. Driving too fast, flipped over but we still have to employee their cars. Dont drive too fast out there. This is whats happening. Accidents tend to be more sensing 911 services and respond to priority one calls. Serious when the roads are wide inmate bookings at jails are down. Police add that theyre making open like this. 7 01. Back to the desk. Thank you. An effort to keep the the bay area now has more coronavirus from entering and spreading through the jails. Than 400 confirmed coronavirus cases. Now, take a look at a map of they are citing and releasing most people who have minor the nine bay area counties. Infractions. Those people are using more it will show you how many paper towels and disinfectant wipes to ward off the spread of the coronavirus thats bringing a new problem to california coronavirus cases are in each because some people are using county. Santa clara county 175 cases. Those products and flushing them down the toilet. Maybe they dont know, those wipes and paper towels do not at least 6 people have died there. 51 cases so far in san disintegrate like toilet paper does. Thats creating a lot of clogged pipes and sewers. If the products make it that francisco. Napa county, still the only bay far, they can also cause damage area county with no confirmed cases. At waste Water Treatment the shelterinplace order facilities. Water officials are reminding that started for most of the bay area continues to grow. People to throw paper towels and wipes into the trash, even those that are labeled now more people in northern washable. San jose city leaders are california are being told to worried there will be more Homeless People in the city who die from the coronavirus. Homeless advocates say the stay home. Solano county issued a shelter coronavirus may have already made it way into homeless encampments. Santa clara county confirmed the homeless person who died inplace order until april 8th. Monday was the states first known covid19 death of a homeless person. The county says its actively lake and mendocino counties also issued shelterinplace working to ensure the health of orders. Allie rasmus reports. People who are homeless. Reporter we have seen a lot san joses mayor sam liccardo of businesses already closed. We are in downtown napa first and main. The coffee shops on both announced an effort to possibly corners here are open. Those will be allowed to remain move some people into vacant hotels. Open even after this shelterin where its worse is people place order goes into effect. Coffee shops and restaurants in camps and shelters. So its critical for to us can remain open just for disperse them. Mayor sam liccardo says that takeout and Delivery Service. But most other businesses in another idea is to speed up the building and placement of tiny homes in san jose. Californians can now go to downtown napa, as weve seen a website designed by the state to address coronavirus issues this morning, have already closed. We have seen signs on shops and with information on what to do businesses explaining they are closing temporarily even before and not do to, to help prevent this stayathome order goes into effect at midnight spread. It features connections to tonight. Financial help including napa county is the last bay substance for small businesses, area county to enact an order like this. Essential businesses like paid family leave or unemployment and disability Grocery Stores, pharmacies, gas stations and banks can stay open. People who work at essential benefits. Click on ktvu. Coms web Links Services like police and fire, healthcare, food service, can section to find the site. Still leave their homes to go theres stigma and to work. But everyone else is supposed discrimination seen against asianamericans across the to stay home except for country. How an east bay brother and essential trips for food and sister are battling xenophobia medical needs. We are here really to after a spike in cases following the coronavirus protect our healthcare system. Pandemic. Now you have a little more time to renew your drivers license if you havent done so thats what in notice and this already. The grace period the tsa is order is really about. Offering and how long it lasts. Reporter even though napa county is the only bay area county with no confirmed cases of coronavirus, leaders and officials dont expect that to remain the case for long. Napa county only has two hospitals, one in the city, the other in st. Helena. So the fear is that cases of covid19 grow rapidly here, they could quickly run out of hospital beds reaching a critical point for this healthcare system. Thats why this order is in place. With other bay area counties, people can still go outside to take a walk to walk their dogs, get some fresh air, as long as they maintain about six feet of distance from anyone else. We have also been told that here in napa county, even though the tasting rooms have to close and many have already because of a previous state order, wineries can still minimally function, doing production and work the fields as long as the workers maintain a safe distance. Live in downtown napa, allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you. Health Officials Say that social distancing will hey there, california residents on medicare. Dramatically slow the spread of the coronavirus. Yes. But many people are ignoring it may come as a surprise that and the new shelterin but medicare doesnt pay for everything. Place order. We see a lot of it. And that can leave you looking for help we talked to people around the with some outofpocket costs. Bay area. You say, its hard to practice well, heres a way to help bridge the gap social distancing while going with a medigap plan, like an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, about their day. The cdc recommends staying six feet away from another person insured by Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company. Because thats how far the virus will spread through medigap plans help pay some of what medicare doesnt, respiratory droplets from a person who is infected. And doctors say if you have the reducing your outofpocket costs. Disease, you may not show with zero networks and zero referrals needed. Symptoms but you can still infect someone else. Which all adds up to a little more peace of mind. When you practice social distancing, what that ensures call or click now to connect is that no one is coming into with Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company contact with anyone else. And talk with a licensed Insurance Agent if you are part of the same household, you are able to go about the range of plans and rates available. Out, you know, for a walk and or, schedule an appointment not have to have that six feet with a licensed Insurance Agent right in your area. Between you. Now, Health Experts say its remember, a medigap plan helps bridge the gap medicare doesnt pay for. Really important to practice social distancing. More people who follow the and, these are the only plans of their kind guidelines in the beginning of endorsed by aarp. So, call or click to connect with unitedhealthcare today about aarp Medicare Supplement plans. A pandemic, the fewer people who will be infected overall. So, call or click to connect with unitedhealthcare today do you recall, not long ago dale young died on tuesday we would walk on the sidewalk at 66. He went to the emergency room on march 3rd for a migraine and all around the wind blows cough and sent home. Two days later his doctors sent we would only hold on to let go him back to the emergency room. Within a week, he was admitted blow a kiss into the sun to a hospital in gilroy and put we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun on a ventilator. He died just days later. All we needed somebody to lean on his daughter stacey silva says she thinks medical professionals could have done more to help him. Lease the volvo xc40 she is warning others to take for 329 per month. The coronavirus seriously. At your local volvo retailer. I looked at this, i wish they did more. I really do. I wish that he wouldnt have been sent home because two days . Two days could have meant my dad still being here you sit at home. You watch the news. And it still is so far away until it reaches so close to home. She isnt sure how her father got the coronavirus saying he had been in isolation since early this month. Silva and her family are currently under a 14day home quarantine. This is a challenging time San Franciscos olympic club now warning its members a female member of the club for Health Professionals as they try to stop the tested positive for covid19. Coronavirus from spreading. On monday, march 9th, she took what medical officials are spin classes at noon. Seeing now and the challenges they expect to face ahead. Also, after the 8 00 a. M. Also, as the shelter in on wednesday, march 11th. She also used the womens place forces thousands of locker room and used the sutter businesses to shut, some companies are staying open. Street elevator on both of were live this morning in fremont, where tesla factory those days. The olympic club contacted everyone in those spin classes workers are confused, some have and urged members testing questions, as they continue to show up for work. Positive for the virus to report it immediately. Later this morning, san [ music ] from ktvu fox 2 news, this Francisco Mayor london breed is mornings on 2 [ music will hold a News Conference at 11 30. She will give us an update on the citys response to the ] welcome to thursday morning, march 19th. Coronavirus. It will be held at the Emergency Operations center now thank you for joining us. Im dave clark. Im gasia mikaelian. Sometimes a hike in the hills is perfect. The Families First bill to provide Financial Relief you might as well now. From the fallout of the coronavirus. 100billion is designated to what else are you going to do . Guarantee sick leave for workser to pay for coronavirus everything is shut down. We have fog, visions of napa. River fog there in the city of testing and provide food to those in need. Congress and the white house napa. I believe that theres some up have competing plans that are around the napa airport as meant to hold off economic well, American Canyon up to santa rosa so a little bit of disaster in this country as the fog most of the rain ending for now. There could be a little bit number of coronavirus cases continues to grow. The president and congress hanging around to the south and are working on more relief east. But partly cloudy, mostly cloudy, a little bit of a break bills they say could give there. Workers and businesses large some shower activity very light. I dont think much will develop. And small lifelines. A uc, berkeley, Economist Says it wont fill the holes in the economy on the and the Bank Accounts of all americans. Hard to overstate how big of slightly warmer temperatures but still below average. A shock this is going to be. Sal is here with the traffic the u. S. Economy is about 1. 75 trillion a month. We are trying to slow it down a lot. If you think were slowing it report. In the east bay, the commutes are light. Down by half that means we need so we are going to go fast and 1 trillion every month. Just show you that things are the president has also light. Sometimes we do have crashes signed the defense production that make things slow down but act, which allows him to tell we havent had any of that private companies to redirect coming up here for most of the their work and pr east bay commute. There have been some exceptions. There was a crash on the dumbarton bridge that cleared ventilators and n95 masks. The downturn continues on wall up. Mission boulevard at warm street but the fall at the springs, avoid that interchange opening bell wasnt as bad as as they are clearing up a deadly accident there. There are plenty of alternates. This time the freeway is no the past week. You can see the dow is down by 1 losing 200 points after being much lower at the opening longer affected. 7 32. Lets go back to the desk. Bell. The s p down by a half a there are hundreds of percent. The nasdaq up by 1. 25 . Coronavirus cases. Santa clara has six deaths. Analysts say theres no doubt the down olympic club in san the longest Global Economic francisco reports a member expansion will end this there tested positive for the quarter. The question now, how long and virus. The club notified all persons. How deep the 2020 recession will be. Experts say the u. S. And europe will feel the worst of it during the second quarter. The governor announced millions that ends in june. To stop the virus from they forecast it will be worse spreadinhe homeless to the general population. A shelter effect at than the steepest decline we saw during the2008 recession and unemployment levels could midnight. Its the last bay area county double in the next three months. To order residents to stay time now 7 09. New this morning, in fremont, look at these pictures. Inside because of the covid19 a box truck burst into flames threat. Last night, solano countys shelterinplace order began just before 4 00 this morning and by this time tomorrow, more near cato road and benicia than 7. 6 million bay area street off 880. But no one was hurt. At first, officials said they couldnt find the driver of the truck. We dont know at this point if residents in 9 counties will they are still out there searching for the driver. Be under shelterinplace orders. Some employees in the tesla also new this morning, oakland firefighters put out an Early Morning fire on had 34th factory at fremont are not street near foothill boulevard. Getting answers they need. It started at an empty home at jesse gary reports. Workers say they are getting 3 30 a. M. The battalion chief at the scene said crews heard an mixed messages. Reporter gasia, good explosion and had to stay morning to you. Outside the home while fighting first, we have some new the fire. Information for you at this six people from two neighboring hour. We talked to several tesla workers who are showing up for work at the plant thats just homes had to evacuate as the fire started to spread. On the other side of the 880 i jumped up. And as soon as i jumped up, i freeway. Im told that employees as they seen flames on the side of my reach the front gate and even before gaining admittance, foreheads are scanned with a thermometer to make sure they house and my windows started popping out. My grandson was coming up the dont have a fever. Look at our video. This is from yesterday. Stairs, almost caught by the blast. Ran outside, panicked a skyfox over the scene showing a ran outside. Crews said they had the fire out in about 40 minutes. Packed parking lot outside the no reports of injuries. He cause is under investi Tesla Fremont factory as gation. Employees reported for work. Time now 7 10. Sal is busy watching whats every employee today was given happening on the road. Hows it look now . A facemask to wear and washing there are a couple of stations will be installed things happening, unfortunately. There have been some pretty major crashes because of people going fast one of the reasons. Today. Social distancing, slowdown in production, and the threat theres no slow traffic to slow anyone down. I also want to mention that there are coworkers over 65. They are fearful. They dont know what to do bart has been considerably lighter again. Barts antioch line reduced anymore. Some service, although its not going to be noticeable to most why are we still open . Exposing these people to because not many people are potentially to the coronavirus . It doesnt make sense to me at going. Theres plenty of room for you to social distance yourself. This was taken at 6 30. All. They amount normally this would be, obviously, one of the peak times. Right now here at the antioch of equipment that needs to be bart station, theres not a lot maintained and going on. Empty trains. That. They would have to do that lets go to the bay bridge. You can see it is light. We have had some serious while maintaining the social distancing guidelines. Reporter the Alameda County Sheriffs Office says tesla is crashes out there. Dumbarton bridge, clearing a crash near the highrise. Southbound 880, they had to not an essential business and is under the same shelterin close the warm springs offramp place order that affects most to southbound 880 because of an Accident Mission boulevard at people in bay area counties warm springs, a deadly crash plus santa cruz county. There. Teslas ceo sent an email to and we do traffic thats employees early this week okay on the peninsula. Saying in part, do not feel obligated to come into work, adding that the fear of the one last thing here. 280 in san jose is light through downtown. Coronavirus is spreading faster than the virus itself. Well take a look at a rarity in the last 24 hours. Live in fremont, jesse gary, that was the leader on ktvu fox 2 news. Rainfall. Go ahead, take a guess. Ill give you three seconds. One, two, three. Back to you in oakland. The coronavirus pandemic is stressful for everyone, concord, buchanon, how about that . 41. Especially for those in the medical field. Doctors, nurses and others in medical facilities say they are napa, third of an inch. Kentfield, quarter inch. And in close contact with people are showing symptoms and some who test positive for vallejo. 15. Kind of see the pocket there. Coronavirus. We are seeing more and more but the rain ends for now unless its very light or of the low and moderately sick scattered most of it east and patients. We are not seeing an alarming surge at this point, but thats south of us by now. Sun, clouds, fog. Upper 50s to low 60s. You will see some of that what were preparing for. Activities at the valley, where some thunderstorm activity we have to avoid the huge spike could pop up again. Of hundreds of potentially they have a better opportunity out there than here for us. Critically ill people coming in all in a very short period of if it happens, it would be time. The doctor says that medical south probably santa cruz and workers on the front lines of gilroy south, some of that the fight against the moisture around hollister and salinas. Coronavirus need personal 30s, 40s, fairfield down to a protective equipment including eye protection, hospital gowns and especially n95 masks. He says that will help keep medical workers well enough to work to be able to help if the brisk 36. Lakeport 33. A lot of 40s in between. Number of patients increases. San jose at 46. 42 morgan hill. He says the general population Boulder Creek low 40s. Doesnt need that equipment if campbell 44. Southern california still getting a little bit of rain is they are following shelter in Central California and the place and social distancing sierra a little snow. Not much for us, though. Guidelines. Several bay area nurses were on the drier side until, also worried about the lack of it looks like, monday, when another system drops in. Protective equipment, and and tuesday, wednesday another round of rain here and mountain theyre speaking out about it. Nurses from National Nurses snow. Lets hope so. We need it. Highs are still below average but inching closer, upper 50s, united and the California Nurses Association gathered outside of the cpmc davis low 60s. I think tomorrow they will get campus and said they already there. They will probably go above on saturday and sunday, then right heard of a nurse who didnt back down on monday again. Have a mask treating a possible more and more people are turning to disinfectant wipes covid19 patient. During the coronavirus we need healthcare employers pandemic. Theres a warning against using and public agencies to provide them the wrong way. What some people are doing that the necessary protections so could cause major problems that none of us falls ill and across the state. And as covid19 forces potentially spread the virus to schools to shut down across families, neighbors, other california, its not only patients and our community. Affecting the kids education the Nurses Union Wants but also their Mental Health hospitals to provide more n95 what the experts are advising parents for dealing with masks and hoods, and they also anxiety. Want possible covid19 patients to be put in negative pressure rooms. Two congressmen have tested positive for the coronavirus. Mario diaz bell lard and ben mcadams a democrat, are self quarantined at home confirmed cases. The number will skyrocket as more test kits are processed. You will see the number of dramatic choir music people diagnosed dramatically increase over the next four to dramatic choir music five days. Congress is now working on a Coronavirus Relief package that would provide a 1,000 checks dramatic choir music to most americans. Time now 7 37. Some who work with immigrant communities worry they say the Trump Administrations policies could make immigrants afraid to its the rush of relaxation. Get medical help if they are introducing the allnew lincoln corsair. Seeing symptoms of the coronavirus. Some without Health Insurance are worried about going to a Public Hospital or clinic negatively effect their chances of getting a green card under the Trump Administration has new public charge regulation for immigrants. Health Officials Say if immigrants dont get the care they need that could help spread the coronavirus. President trump is standing by his decision to refer to covid19 with the term many call racist. The president has been referring to the coronavirus as, quote, the chinese virus. This comes as asianamericans across the country are reporting a spike in xenophobic acts following the coronavirus. A film may remind people were in this together. The film is called, catching love. It addresses discrimination developing with the coronavirus. When fear and hatred and frustration is filling inside your heart, try to remember that love is also a natural human response and that hope is a natural human response and we can use that to spread positivity in our communities. Watch the film on our website, ktvu. Com. Shouldnt you pay less when now you can. Data . Because Xfinity Mobile gives you more flexible data. 7 39. You can choose to share data between lines, mix with unlimited, or switch it up at any time. Sal is right there watching whats happening on the roads now. All on the most reliable wireless network. Diazbalart we have traffic doing well. Which means you can save money without compromising on coverage. I want to mention a trouble get more flexible data, the most reliable network, and more savings. Plus, get 300 off when you buy a new Samsung Galaxy s20 ultra. Spot in the east bay in fremont on mission boulevard. Thats simple. Easy. Awesome. Call, click or visit a store today. This is video of very possible on bart. So much so that they have even reduced the length of trains and the time in between trains because, look at these stations. Completely empty. Welcome back. Starting today, meals for students will be provided by theres one person there. The Oakland School district you can there are a couple because schools are closed of people. You can definitely use social distancing there. Because of the coronavirus. All right. The crash i was going to talk breakfast and lunch are served about in fremont is still there monday and thursday at 12 on mission boulevard and warm Oakland Schools. This map shows you where they are. More than 4,000 students took springs. Avoid the area. Part the first day. There have been some other crashes that havent caused too much major damage on the roads the grab and go meals are free to all students un here and there in the silicon matter what your familys income is. The Bay Area School valley. Right now, traffic is light. 7 40. Lets bring steve in with shutdown happened so quickly todays weather. Thank you. That many teachers and well get to it here. Some fog seems to be the bigger administrators didnt have time to put together learnathome plans for their students. The San Francisco unified School District is developing story besides any rain. Plans for that district more we still had some yesterday. Than 50,000 students. The district says it has to take all students into consideration because not all about done. It will be light. Hi, gary. 36degree row, fog below us and families have access to a computer or the internet. We want to make sure that whatever plan we roll out is really thinking about how do we hold access and equity and how we make sure that were not also san anselmo, mill valley in the 30s. Cloverdale at 40. Ruling out our plan that is advantageous to some and doesnt meet the needs of rain ends for now. Others. Right now the district has resource for parents available should be back monday into on the School District website. Tuesday. The work is not mandatory, just today sun, clouds, fog, upper 50s, low 60s. Yesterday was one of those rare offered to parents as an educational home support days when concord was the system. Being out of school and being under the threat of the leader on rainfall 24 hours at coronavirus can be a lot for a. 401. Napa a third of an inch. Vallejo 15. Kids to handle. There was quarter inch amounts ktvu talked to an expert about the possible psychological plus in the santa cruz effects and dr. Darrell brown said the effects could differ mountains. Not much left here. Depending on the age of the most of it south of santa cruz towards monterey. Maybe salinas, gilroy, child. But he says theres one thing hollister, might be the best in common, anxiety. Major thing that were going opportunity for some buildups later. To see in children is anxiety, 33 in lakeport. 34 fairfield. Which is a natural thing. They will be physically less some areas cold. 30s and 40s in active. They will have probably longer the area. Screen time, which is already an issue. They will have irregular sleep patterns and less favorable diets. There are things parents can do to help their kids. Rain back sunday night, monday morning and tuesday into first, stay calm. Parents should also limit what you say about the coronavirus wednesday, more mountain snow and okay rain here. Lets hope so. We need it. We are probably never going to around the children, but always get to average, but at least we be honest about it. Can get a little rain that will and, finally, he says a daily routine that includes exercise help. 50s and 60s on the can help everybody get through temperatures. And well see improving the day. California State University will not hold graduation conditions into the weekend and ceremonies this spring at all 23 campuses. Next system drops in early next the system says the decision is week. Helping out during these stressful times, house east bay following guidelines from state communities are working Health Officials about not together to help seniors in having mass gatherings. Leaders hope to reschedule the their neighborhood. Ceremony for later this year. Now burger king is helping of course, the csu system has to feed kids out of school already canceled its inperson during the coronavirus pandemic. How to get two free childrens classes and is now moved them meals. I hear there are donuts in the newsroom. I heard that, too. I dont think you took one, online. In florida, despite did you, nick . Warnings to practice social distancing to cut back on the im not big on donuts but i spread of the coronavirus, a appreciate the gesture from the bosses. And if you want, i can bring lot of people are going to the beach. Some beaches are closed because of the coronavirus. You a donut into the studio. But others are still open. You can see they are still make it a chocolate old crowded. The number of beachgoers is fashioned. Good morning. Acts of kindness during this time, especially for those in the Food Industry nationwide. Really high, mainly because of spring break. Earlier this week the florida coming up in the 8 00 hour, the governor said wont close all big surprise a server got from a customer. State beaches despite ordering plus, with most people in the restaurants and bars to close. Bay area sheltering in place, lets talk about traffic. Many families are left sal, one small part of my struggling with cabin fever. Commute put me eye to eye with coming up on the 9 00, some ideas to keep the children busy bart riders. A train and i were moving along without having to tap into extra screen time. Were back after the break. On 980 and it was close to empty. I know exactly what youre talking about there, gasia. If you drive on 980 for a while there or the, you know, even people who come on 24, those people at the Macarthur Bart station, they see normally the platforms full of people and trains full of people. Its not happening. Bart has actually reduced won because ridership is so light. This is a look at the 80 commute at the bay bridge. It is pretty light. We have had a serious crash on the dumbarton bridge, although they cleared that. We also do have warm springs admission. There was a deadly crash there involving a pedestrian. They still have that closed off. It happened about 5 48 this morning. They are still working on the investigation there. South bay commutes seem lighter than usual obviously, seems lighter than usual. But some of the earlier problems we had have also cleared up. 7 19. Lets bring steve back in. Thank you, sir. Well take probably a last look for a few days of rain totals. Yesterday was hit and miss for some, but hard to believe, but if you are out by concord buchanan airport they had the most rain,. 41. Napa. 33. Vallejo. 15. There is 1 4 to 1 3 in the santa cruz mountains. So somebody had a little bit of rain out of that system and some snow continues a bit. I think things are winding down. But the forecast calls for maybe another inch of snow when we face adversity, between now into saturday, early sunday, up to two inches. We find a way through it. There is a low hanging out its about taking care of each other. There that might give a little lift there. Its the small parts that make a big difference. Same for the valley. You can see some of that activity out towards groveland, at chevy, we promise to do ours. Merced, modesto and to the were offering chevy owners complimentary south of san jose. That looks to be really the onstar crisis assist services and wifi data. Only area of interest for today. Some of that down towards if you need a new chevy, interestfree financing for 84 months salinas and monterey. 36 cold degrees at fairfield. With deferred payments for 120 days lakeport at 33. On many of our most popular models. 40s right there for napa and you may even shop online and take delivery at home. Novato at 40. Its just our way of doing our part. Candlewood down 33 san anselmo, mill valley in the 30s. Point reyes, 32. Napa 40. Rain in Southern California, most of this though is about done. And well get a break until late sunday more likely now looks like monday, tuesday into wednesday, when another system moves in with more mountain snow and rain. Well take it. No miracle march in the cards. But its been a nice march. We are getting a little bit of rain. Temperatures closer to average, then back down again monday. Healthcare workers on the front lines are facing challenges at bay area hospitals. Details on a shortage of essential equipment, nurses and other things they need to treat patients. Police are adjusting how they do business during this pandemic. After a break, how bay area officers are dealing with the shelterinplace order and how it appears to be affecting crime rates. In martinez another business is giving free meals to children in need. Vics gave out free sandwiches and fries yesterday to help parents during the shelterin place order and resulting School Closures. They say the sandwiches will be available again today from 10 00 a. M. To 11 00 a. M. Another martinez restaurant slice of pizza is offering free pizza slices to schoolchildren today and tomorrow from 11 30 to 12 30. In the east bay diablo foods in lafayette is working with volunteers to deliver eevention to homebound seniors. Social media helped to attract more volunteers as delivery requests are increasing daily. Today alone, we probably received 50 calls, and we have been telling everybody about the phone number to call and give them your name and the volunteer will call you to deliver meals. Grocery stores are trying to stay stocked. The problem isnt a shortage, its just getting food to the store. When i went inside trader joes, it was stocked and quiet. Got my eggs and milk. Im good. 7 47. Stocks down again, and now something very new, very strange, for the new york stock exchange. Pam cook is here to explore dollars sense. For the first time the Trading Floor will shut down temporarily after two people tested positive for the virus. Electronic trading will continue. The exchange moved to electronic trading a couple years ago but there are traders on the floor to make sure things run smoothly and as backup if that trading system goes down, they can go back to the Old School System of matching buyers and sellers. But thats going to be out for a little bit ile they clean the floor. Stocks dropped this morning when the opening bell rang. After tomorrow it will most likely ring remotely as they shut down the floor for at least a couple of days. Taking a live to the big board, big loss when the opening bell rang this morning. Coming back a little bit at this hour, et its down 1 , 200 points, still under 19,000, closed for the First Time Since 2017. Below 20,000. 19,720. The s p 500 down, as well. And some traders investors starting to talk about looking for some buying opportunities. But add movie theaters to the long list of business seeking Financial Assistance from the government because of the coronavirus. So the trade Group Representing cinema owners is asking for loan guarantees and compensation for lost ticket sales and concessions plus benefits for 150,000 employees. Congress plans to help bail out the airline and cruise ship industries. Airlines are asking for 50 billion. Movie theaters say a fraction of that amount could keep them afloat. The pandemic has many people reading plaguethemed literature. Camus wrote the plague a town ravaged by the plague. Amazon is out of stock on that book until next week. The dean koons book the eye of darkness is about the wuhan 400 virus portrayed as a biological weapon. Many libraries around the bay area do offer free access to ebooks. I think maybe something a little bit more uplifting might be good at this time. Burger king trying to help parents deal with the coronavirus crisis. It is offering two free kids meals with the purchase of one adult meal. This offer only available through the companys online or mobile app. The two for one deal comes as millions of chdr who rely on free school food need to find an alternative because of closed schools. As we talked about this morning, many School Districts are still offering those free lunches and breakfasts at grab andgo to anyone under the age of 18 regardless of income. Thats a look at your dollars sense. Back to you. 7 50. The Transportation Security Administration says its giving a grace period to people who havent renewed their drivers licenses yet. The tsa says that licenses that expired beginning march 1st can be used at checkpoints for a year after the expiration date. Plus, 60 days after the Coronavirus National emergency is lifted. The tsa is also allowing liquid Hand Sanitizer in containers up to 12 ounces in carryon bags. All others must be in 3ounce containers. That leads us back to sal who will tell us if the folks out there are behaving. For the most part. But sometimes when the roads are light like this, when crashes do happen and they still do, they can be more serious. This morning, we have had a couple of those. Lets go to the bay bridge. It is light if you have to get somewhere. A lot of people are driving places here and there. You can see traffic is okay. Dumbarton bridge, we had a little bit of a slowdown approaching a crash on the west end of the span. San mateo bridge is light. Still avoid mission boulevard at warm springs the site of a deadly accident this morning. Doing an investigation there, unfortunately, the side roads are very light. And Silicon Valley commute looks okay including the peninsula. Heres a live look at downtown san jose. 7 51. Heres steve. See that sun there in san jose . I like it. So well get some sun breaks today after a couple of days of a lot of cloud cover, Cool Temperatures and offandon rain. Looks like most of it is done for now. It will be back next week. That will be the rain. Maybe sunday night, more likely on monday. Upper 50s, low 60s for the highs. Coming down out of the north right now. Whou get the north direction, usually ends things. Usually unless theres someareas to the south. Napa airport a little north wind, santa rosa a little north wind, northwest. That 30s and 40s, fairfield 34 cold degrees. 49 oakland airport, sfo, and 46 redwood city, half moon bay, palo alto and san jose. About as isothermal as i have seen it on the peninsula. Everyone is within a couple of degrees, including the coast and woodside, 43 the coolest but everyone is close, foster city 47. Millbrae at 47. 24 your opinion in truckee. 45 in las vegas. 46 in palm springs Santa Barbara 43. Sacramento 36. We are almost on the drier side unless youre out to the east or to the south. Its quiet until sunday and monday when the next system arrives into tuesday and wednesday, more mountain snow and more rain. Wont get the miracle march, but anything is good for now. Temperatures will bump up and come down next week. Time 7 52. Hospital officials in los angeles have a new way trying to prevent patients from being exposed to the coronavirus. Coming up in the next hour, what is set up now in parking lots and what doctors are doing to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Plus, new york state has the most coronavirus cases in america. But theyre not under a shelter inplace order tell you why Governor Andrew Cuomo hasnt approved that order and what he says is behind the jump in covid19 cases. First the latest on the big earthquake that rattled the state of utah. How emergency officials are helping the people affected as many people social distance themselves because of covid19. 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Social distancing is still critically important, but social grace goes a long way in times like this. People are worried. People are afraid and rightfully so. But please be kind, be generous, be forgiving. Tens of thousands of other people lost their power. The Salt Lake City airport was shut down for several hours. A major milestone in china involving the coronavirus. They say there were no new cases in wuhan, china, yesterday, the First Time Since the outbreak began. So peak, wuhan reported thousands every day. China has start to loosen travel restrictions within the country, but there are still 14 day quarantines for people arriving from overseas. Now, china still has the most cases of coronavirus in the world. 81,000 cases, 3200 people have died. Italy is now the second hardest hit country with 31,000 cases, 2500 people dead. Iran is number three with 17,000 cases, 1100 dead. And here in the u. S. , we now have 9300 reported cases, 150 people dead. It is 7 58. The man who was the chief brexit negotiator for the European Union says he tested positive for the coronavirus. Meantime, Queen Elizabeth has moved to Windsor Castle because of the coronavirus. The queen and Prince Philip often spend their weekends there but say they wont be back at Buckingham Palace until after easter at the earliest. Upcoming royal events with large numbers of people are canceled or postponed. Hollywood is helping out to something to look forward to while theyre quarantined at home. Along with millions in donations to food banks around the country, several celebrities are trying to give a break from the stress. Jennifer garner and amy adams started save with stories. Theyre reading books on social media and, at the same time, raising money for charity. Chris martin kicked off the together at home Concert Series for fans. John legend, pink and keith urban a few doing the same thing. It is 7 59. For the first time ever, wrestlemania will be a two night event and Rob Gronkowski will host. Wrestlemania 36 will be saturday, april 4th, sunday sunday, april 5th, on pay per view. You can see it on the w we network. No audience and only essential personnel will be on the closed set during the production. Four more counties have joined the bay area shelterin place order. Were live in the north bay with details on when napa countys order takes effect. The number of deaths from the coronavirus continues to rise. The latest confirmed number in the bay area and the message from a grieving daughter after her father died from the coronavirus. And social distancing, how some people are struggling to stay six feet away. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Im mike mibach. Im gasia mikaelian. In minutes the White House Coronavirus task force is set to hold a News Conference. They meet every day and provides updated guidelines based on the changing situation. As soon as todays briefing begins, well bring it to you live right here on mornings on 2. Quick check of traffic and weather. Well get right over to Steve Paulson with a look outside. Thank you. We have a little end here to some of our rain for a few days. Areas of fog out there this morning, our good friend george in el cerrito, weather is keeping me sane. Thank you. My pleasure, george. I do it for you. 18 yesterday, calm broken stratus fog and sun. 47 el cerrito. A lot of 42s, lafayette, san ramon, clayton, castro valley. Rain ends for now, mixture of sun and clouds, highs today in the upper 50s to low 60s. Next hint of rain is late sunday, early next week. Sal has had a few things to talk about. Things are better. But we still have some things to warn you about now. Its not the typical commute that were warning you about because those are doing well. Like the bay bridge very few cars there. What we have to warn but is serious crashes that happen when people are going faster than they might on a regular day. Dumbarton bridge had a high speed collision. We had a deadly crash in fremont on mission boulevard near warm springs. Still investigating that. The south bay commute is okay. We have had a couple of stalls, but for the most part were off to a decent start here with the traffic and the sunshine moving well. The bay area has more than 400 confirmed coronavirus cases. The match of the nine bay area counties shows you how many cases are in each county. Napa county still the only bay area county with no cases. A shelterinplace order that started for most of the bay area continues to grow. More people in Northern California are told to stay home. Solano county issued a shelter inplace order last night. It remains in effect until at least april 8th. Lake and mendocino counties issued shelterinplace orders. Napa is the last county to enact it shelterinplace order beginning at midnight. Allie rasmus reports. Reporter i think a lot of businesses have taken steps to shut down even though this stay at home order doesnt go into effect until midnight. We are here at first and main in downtown napa. You can see it is quiet. The impact of this is already being felt. Driving through downtown napa this morning, we saw sign after handwritten sign out the outside windows of shops and businesses explaining that they had already shut down temporarily even before this stayathome order goes into effect. This is the last bay area to enact it. Essential businesses like Grocery Stores, pharmacies, banks, and police and fire, healthcare and food service can leave home to go to work. And restaurants can stay open for takeout and Delivery Service only. This morning, we spoke with the chef at jacks diner in downtown napa. He says he is working on writing up a condensed to go menu with plenty of comfort food options that they will use tomorrow when its take out only but not sure how long restaurants can survive on that business model. Thats tough. If we can afford it, if we can maintain our costs, maintain everything to keep the doors open, and thats really the scary part of all this because every person that works here is this is all they have. We are here to protect our healthcare system. Thats what this notice and this order is really about. Napa county is the only bay area county so far that has no confirmed cases of coronavirus. Officials dont expect that to be the case for long. And napa county only has two hospitals, one in the city, the another st. Helena and the fear is that covid19 cases grow rapidly here, they could quickly run out of hospital beds. And thats why this stay at home order is going to go into effect at midnight, although same with other bay area orders. You can still step outside to go for a walk, walk your dog, get some fresh air and for those essential business trips like the Grocery Store and gas. But county tasting a previous order to close. Vineyards can still operation with production and in the as l are a safe distance apart. Again this, shelterinplace order for napa goes into effect in midnight tonight. Allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2 news. Health Officials Say the social distancing will help slow down the spread of the coronavirus. However, many people are ignoring that and the new shelterinplace order. We have talked to people throughout the bay area who say its hard to practice social distancing while going about their day. The cdc recommends staying six feet away from another person because thats how far the virus can spread from respiratory droplets from an infected person. You may not show symptoms but still can infect someone else. When you practice social distancing, what that ensures is that no one is coming into contact with anyone else. If you are part of the same household, you are able to go out, you know, for a walk and not have to have that distance between you. Health Officials Say it is critical to practice social distancing. The more people who follow the guidelines in the beginning of the pandemic, the fewer people who will get sick. A gilroy woman is sharing her fathers story after he died from the coronavirus. Gary young died on tuesday. He was 66 years old. He went to the emergency room on march 3rd for a migraine and cough, was sent home. Two days later he went back to the emergency room. Within a week he went to the hospital in gilroy and put on a ventilator. Days later he died. His daughter says medical professionals could have done more to help him. She warns others to take the virus seriously. I wish think did more. I really do. I wish they did more. I wish he wouldnt have been sent home. Two days, he could still re. You watch the news and it feels so far away until it reaches so close to home. She said she isnt sure how her father got it saying he was in isolation early this morning. The family is quarantined for 14 days. The olympic club in San Francisco says a female member tested positive for covid19. She took spin classes at noon monday march 9th and 8 00 a. M. On the 11th and used the womens locker room. Any person affected should report it. President trump signed the Families First bill to provide Financial Relief from the fallout of the coronavirus. 10billion has been designated to guarantee sick leave for workers, pay for coronavirus testing and provide food to those in need. Congress and the white house have competing plans that are meant to hold off Economic Disaster in this country as the number of Coronavirus Infections continues to grow. The downturn in stocks continues but the fall at the opening bell was not as bad today. The Dow Jones Industrial average is down by about 120, sharper losses at the very beginning. These numbers are a lot smaller than what were used to seeing, but still this is just the very beginning of one day of a session. Several analysts say there is no doubt the longest economic Global Expansion is ending this quarter. The question is, how long and how deep the 2020 recession will be. Experts say the u. S. And europe will feel the worst of it ending in june. They say it will be worse than the2008 with unemployment levels doubling in the next three months. Governor gavin newsom says a spike in unemployment filings will have an impact on the state. He says more than 80,000 californians have applied for Unemployment Insurance on tuesday. Thats up from 2,000 on an average day. The most recent figure shows that california unemployment was at a record low of 3. 4 . You can find complete coverage of the pandemic at coronavirusnow. Com. In addition to articles and videos from around the country, youre going to also find a daily live stream and live digital broadcast that we do every weekday beginning at 10 00 in the morning. And dont forget to download the free ktvu news app for the latest update and news cents straight to your mobile devices. Find information about School Closures and options for parents. Anything but a typical morning commute. Sal is tracking the new normal. It is. We have, unfortunately, part of the new normal that we have a lot more high speed collisions with more severe injuries. People are going faster and, just remember, you can obviously still get cited. And i have seen people doing it, getting pulled over for going too fast. The roads are wide open. Southbound 880 is okay. Clearing a crash at mission boulevard and warm springs. Silicon valley, a couple of spots with minor slowdowns as people are out and about doing what i think is essential business. 8 10. Here comes steve with todays weather. How did you into i was over there . Well, you know, you havent moved from there because youre social distancing. Thats correct. Thank you, sir. A little weather comedy here, why not. As you know, in february, record highs, no rain. Last day of winter today, spring starts tonight. Steve bender says this year we have decided to flip the script. Were now going into winter, then fall, then summer. I dont know what he means by that. Things are topsyturvy here. Rainfall yesterday, concord, buchanan, what . 41. The leader of the pack, how about that. Napa had a third. Kentfield a quarter in vallejo. 15. About a quarter to third in the santa cruz mountains. Not much left. A few little showers, garden variety, might pop up south of san jose, more likely salinas, hollister, gilroy. Were mostly down. If anything falls it will be brief. 30s and 40s. Two systems, one moving out down in the four corners and the other one hanging out around mono lake in the sierra. Its weak but keeping activity going in the Central Valley and central sierra. What about rain . Can we get any more . Yes, but probably not until sunday night or monday. Then two systems, one from the westsouthwest and another one drops in tuesday, wednesday. Look at the sierra snow picks up and some rainfall rates for us, well take it. No way were going to get a miracle march but we can add to the totals and make up ground for a bonus. Upper 50s, low 60s on the temperatures. Quiet and warmer each day. There will be fog nights and mornings, next system into monday. Tesla employees still showing up to work this morning in fremont. Coming up, what elon musk is telling workers amid a shelter inplace order for Alameda County. Also, what employees are encountering right there at the front door. 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Monaco is a tiny city state on the french riviera, one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Prince albert is 62. The Oakland School district will provide meals to student who may go hungry because their schools closed because of the coronavirus. The breakfast and lunches are being served each monday and thursday at schools across the city. This map on your screen shows each site. You can also find the list on the web links section of our website at ktvu. Com. More than 4,000 students took part on the first day of these grabandgo meals. Theyre free to all students under 18 no matter their familys income. The Bay Area School shutdown happened so quickly, many teachers and administrators didnt have time to put together a learn at home plan for their students. The San Francisco unified School District is developing plans for the districts more than 50,000 students. Sfusc says the district has to take all students into consideration because not all families have access to computers or the internet. We want to make sure that whatever plan we roll out is thinking about how to we have equity and make sure were not leaving some behind. Right now the district has resources for parents available on the website. The work is not mandatory, its offered to parents as an educational support at home. This is difficult for children to absorb this all. We spoke with a Mental Health expert about the possible psychological effects. Dr. Brown says the effects could differ depending on the age of each child but expects many could have one issue in common, anxiety. The major thing that were going to see in children is anxiety, which is a natural thing. They will be physically less active. Theyll have probably longer screen time, which is already an issue. They will have irregular sleep patterns. Theyll have less favorable diets. Dr. Brown says there are several things parents can do to help their children. Remaining calm, very key. Limit what you say around coronavirus about children but be honest. Finally a daily routine including exercise can help families get through the day. Lets help you get out the door if you are going. There are a lot of essential workers many on the roads. I saw them myself, sal. Thats right. Bart station are empty. We have a look at the concord bart station, where we have we have people who have to go and dont drive. You can take bart. Even though bart has reduced some service, i dont think youll notice just because there are so few people in the system. Bart says system ridership yesterday down 87 . Parking lots have room if you have it use bart. Theres plenty of room for you to practice social distancing, as well. This is a look at the bay bridge. You can see that traffic looks light as this is the new normal. We have had a couple of crashes out there that have been cleared up. The unfortunate thing is when the roads are wide open, we have more serious crashes. People are going faster. 8 18. Lets bring steve back tern is kicking in for a few days. And we have had a little bit of rain here in the last 24 hours. There is more rain on the way. There might be a little coming in, in the next 24 hours. But i think most of it is focused towards monterrey but look what happens sunday into monday. Rain on the way. Then especially we get into tuesday and wednesday. Could get some really good rain and more mountain snow. The source of the system coming in, it will be two systems actually. One of them is right there. And its going to track ever so slowly towards us by sunday. It really doesnt do much until another system comes down and that will kick it in. This one looks colder and more dynamic. That will be your tuesday into wednesday system. So continues to march in as we think. Those will be the changes we head towards sunday, monday and tuesday. Much more quiet now. A little north breeze. Most of the activity is down towards the monterey peninsula over towards salinas, gilroy and hollister. Warming up slowly. Active in Southern California still san diego getting some, Central California. But looks like we are done. Anybody that falls today will be light and brief. Near average or slightly above on saturday. Sunday starts off all right. Cloudy sunday night, rain monday. A warning this morning about using disinfecting wipes the wrong way during the coronavirus pandemic. Coming up, what some people are doing that could cause major problems across the state. Also, police stations are adjusting how they work during this pandemic. After a break, how bay area officers are dealing with the shelterinplace order and how it appears to be affecting crime rates. Dramatic choir music dramatic choir music dramatic choir music its the rush of relaxation. Introducing the allnew shouldnt you pay less when now you can. Data . 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Today we got a call, where do i find a place to charge my cell phone . Libraries are closed. Quiet on the streets creates less activity. We still have to respond to priority calls. Inmate bookings are down. They are trying to keep the coronavirus from getting into jails. They are citing and releasing most people with minor infractions. Most people are using more paper towels and disinfectant wipes to ward off the spread of the coronavirus. Thats making a new problem in california. Some people are flushing them down the toilet not knowing they dont disintegrate like toilet paper. Thats creating clogged pipes and sewers. They can also cause damage at waste treatment facilities. Water officials are reminding i even if the label says they are stop the spread. They are set up in the garage of Cedarssinai Medical Center in los angeles. Doctors will first check patients with possible symptoms in those tents. Patients who have respiratory symptoms, we can direct them to that area to keep them separate from the general patient population. The hospital says that patients who dont require hospitalization will be sent home to selfisolate. The state of new york has the most coronavirus cases in the United States. Just a short time ago, the new york governor, andrew cuomo, announced a number of cases in the state has jumped to more than 4,000 with more than half of the cases in new york city. The governor attributed the jump to an increase in testing. He said a record 8,000 tests were conducted just overnight. The governor also ordered all businesses to keep at least 75 of their employees home. Tesla workers are curious about having to report to work. Next at 8 30, well go live to the tesla plant in fremont where workers are telling us what the company is doing before they can get inside the building. From children to seniors, some of the places around the bay areas pitching in to make sure those who need meals the most are being taken care of. My money should work as hard as i do. So i use my freedom unlimited card to buy all the latest tech stuff. Today, im earning on a charger. So, just the charger then . Ummm. Yeah sarcastically fantastic. Earn 1. 5 cash back on everything you buy with freedom unlimited. Chase. Make more of whats yours. More than 8 Million People in Northern California affected by legal orders to stay home. The new areas in the north bay that added shelterinplace orders amid the coronavirus pandemic. Plus im calling on behalf of my coworkers because im concerned about them. Frustration for thousands of employees at tesla who say they are being told to keep working, but now theres something new. How the employees are being screened before they walk into work. From ktvu fox 2 news, this is mornings on 2. Its 8 29. Thanks for joining us. Its thursday, march 19th. Im gasia mikaelian. Im mike mibach. We start back east in the nations capital. The White House Coronavirus task force scheduled to hold a News Conference that was supposed to start about 30 minutes ago. Were being told that they will begin this probably in about two minutes or so. They meet every day providing updated information about the evolving situation. When it begins, very shortly, well bring it to you live. Lets knock out a quick weather and traffic. Steve . Ill do my best. Chris henry had a record rainfall for the date down in morgan hill. Picked up. 19. Thats it. But thats the record for the date. The old record was. 08. The system is moving out. A mixture of sun and clouds today. 40s on the temperatures. Well end up with upper 50s, low 60s, still some rain to the south, but quieter pattern. We are getting close to average, but not there yet. Heres sal. All right. I know weve going to be interrupted. Traffic is light except for a big accident on 680 southbound at crow canyon. Overturned truck blocking several lanes. And well keep you updated on that. Northbound 680 and southbound 680, very slow. Bay bridge still looks okay. 8 30. Lets going back to mike and gasia. The bay area now has at least 409 reported coronavirus cases. Santa clara has 175 infections including six deaths. Meantime, the downtown olympic club in San Francisco reports a member tested positive for the coronavirus. The club has notified all members who took spin classes with that person last week. The governor announced 150 million in emergency funding to stop the virus from spreading among people who are homeless and throughout the states general population. In napa county, a shelter inplace order takes effect at midnight, the last bay area county to order residents to stay home because of the coronavirus threat. Solano countys order took effect last night. This means that at this time tomorrow, more than 7. 6 million bay area residents across all nine bay area counties will be under shelterinplace orders. This morning, new measures in place at the tesla plant in fremont as employees continue to come to work despite the shelterinplace order in Alameda County. Ktvus jesse gary live outside the plant with details. Reporter good morning. Tesla workers we spoke to a short time ago say all workers are being scanned across the forehead with a thermometer to be sure they dont have a fever. Its a new reality, but a small change to what many workers say is a continuation of the regular routine. In the plea dawn darkness, a sea of tesla employees arriving at work thursday at the companys fremont plant. The ebb and flow following the same routine as days past despite all right. We are going to interrupt that. President trump at the white house. Lets listen in. I want to thank you for being here. The media has been much nicer. I dont know what it is. All these empty these in between chairs. You probably shouldnt have anybody sitting behind you, either. You should probably go back. But i love it. Its so much nicer. I shouldnt say that because youll get me now. Thank you for being here. We continue our relentless effort to defeat the chinese virus. I want to start by announcing that, today, we are bringing home another american citizen, its a big thing, very big. Is on his way back to the United States after being imprisoned in lebanon since september of 2019. He is battling late stage cancer. He will now receive the much needed care and treatment in the United States. We have been working very hard to get him freed. He now has his entire family at his side. Im very grateful to the lebanese government that worked with us. Were very proud of his family. They stood by him so strongly and they are thrilled. The United States has no higher priority than the safety and wellbeing of our citizens. We have a tremendous number of hostages out. I think were 420. Robert obrien was our chief negotiator for a large part of it. Did so well that now we have him in a different position. So i want to thank and congratulate robert and his team and i want to know that recovering prisoners abroad is a top priority for my administration. We have one young gentleman, austin tice, and were working very hard with syria to get him out. We hope the syrian will do that. Were counting on them to do that. He has been there a long time. Weve written a letter recently. He was captured long ago, austin tice. His mother is probably watching, and shes a great lady. And we are doing the best we can. So, syria, please work with us. We would appreciate your letting him out. If you think about what we have done. We got rid of the isis caliphate in syria. We have to see if they would do this. It was very much appreciated if they would let austin tice out immediately. As you know, my administration is working every day to protect the American People and the American Economy from the virus. Yesterday, i signed into law a critical support for american workers, families and small businesses, a big thing. Were providing sick leave and family medical leave to those affected by the virus and more help is on the way as we speak. Our entire team headed bisect mnuchin is on the hill. Were working with democrats and republicans and a lot of goodwill going on. This was something that happened that was some people what say an act of god. I dont view it as an act of god. I would view it as something that just surprised the whole world. And if people would have known about it, it could have been stopped in place. It could have been stopped right where it came from, china. If we would have known about it, if they would have known about it. But now the whole world, launch, is inflicted with this horrible virus. And its too bad its too bad because we never had an economy as good as the economy we had just a few weeks ago. But well be back. I actually think well be back stronger than ever before because we learned a lot during this period of time. I also just invoked the defense production act to help facilitate distribution of essential supplies if necessary. Were working with congress to provide major additional relief to the workers, small businesses, when we recover all of these companies and these great businesses, both very small and large, wont be broken up and you to put them back together. That would take a long time. We realvcurve. I believe its going to go when this is defeated, this hidden scourge is defeated, i think were going to go up very rapidly, our economy, and get back to where it was and beyond. Today i want to share with you exciting progress that the fda is making with the private sector as we slash red tape like nobody has ever done it before. Somebody was on yesterday on one of the networks and said that theres never been a president even close thats been able to do what ive done in slashing all of the red tape and everything to get very important things to the market, medical. So we slashed red tape to develop vaccines and therapies as fast as it can possibly be done, long before anybody else was thinking about doing this. Earlier this week we began the first Clinical Trial of a vaccine candidate for the virus, and that was launched in record time. It was just a few weeks. And that would have taken years to do not so long ago. As we race to develop a vaccine, were also pursuing antiviral therapies, and thats what really were going to be talking to you about today. Thats the purpose of being up here today. And, to me, thats even more important. The vaccine, by its nature, you have to have long tests because you have to make sure what goes into somebodys body is not going to to destruction, do bad things. So you need long tests. They are doing great with the vaccines. But its still a long process. But the therapies are something we can move on much faster potentially. And the treatments that well be able to reduce the severity or duration of the symptoms, make People Better, essentially looking at things to make People Better or, at the very earliest stages, they wouldnt even know they had it. And thats where i believe its going to work even the best. The fda commissioner, steven hahn, who is with us, he is fantastic. And he has been working 24 hours a day. He has been worked like probably as hard or harder than anybody in this group other than maybe mike pence or me. And what the fda is doing is incredible. They have done things in times that were not even thinkable. And i have directed the fda to eliminate outdated rules and bureaucracy so this work can proceed rapidly, quickly, and i mean fast. And we have to remove every barrier. There are a lot of barriers that were unnecessary. And they have done that to get the Rapid Deployment of safe, effective treatments. And we think we have some good answers. Well find out very, very soon. Clinical trials are already under way for many new therapies. And were working on scaling these to allow many more americans to access different drugs that have shown really good progress, really good progress. We will do so in a way that lets us continue to collect good data to know which medicines are safe and which medicines are working the best. We have a couple that were in really good shape on. And thats for immediate delivery. Immediate like as fast as we can get it. The fda has also approved compassionate use for a significant number of patients. You know what that means. Were also reviewing drugs that are approved abroad or drugs approved here for other uses. And, you know, one of the things that im most proud of that i got was right to try. Thats where somebody who is ill, somebody who is very sick, terminally ill usually, in past administrations, we signed this a year and a half ago, you wouldnt be able to even think about getting any of the may be showing great promise. Now and they have been trying for decades to get this approved. Theres liabilities and involved. I was able to get it approved working with congress right to try. This is beyond right to try. What were talking about today is beyond right to try. Right to try has been, by the way, a tremendous success. People are living now that had no chance of living where we take treatments that would things that would have to go through years of a process and if somebody was terminally ill, and i would say, why wouldnt they be able to try this . They would go to asia, europe, all over the world to try and find something. Some people had no money would go home to die. They would go home to die with no hope. Right to try has been an incredible success. But this is beyond right to try. If treatment is known to be safe in europe, japan or other nations effective against the virus, well use that information to protect the health and safety of the American People. Nothing will stand in our way as we pursue any avenue to find what best works against this horrible virus. Now, a drug called chloroquinn and some people with add hydroxy chloroquinn, so hydroxy chloroquinn, you know, this is a common malaria drug. Its also used for strong arthritis. If somebody has serious arthritis. Also, uses this in a somewhat different form. Its been around for a longs time and is very powerful. Its been around for a long time. So we know that if it if things dont go as planned, its not going to kill anybody. When you go with a brandnew drug, you dont know that thats going to happen. You have to see and you have to go long tests. But this has been used in different forms, very powerful drug in different forms. And its shown very encouraging very, very encouraging early results. And were going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. Thats where the fda has been so great. They have gone through the approval process. Its been approved and they did it. They took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we are going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states i spoke with Governor Cuomo about it at great length last night, and he wants to be right on the he wants to be first on line. And so i think thats a tremendous theres tremendous promise based on the results and other tests, thats tremendous promise. Normally, the fda would take a long time to approve Something Like that. It was approved very, very quickly. And its now approved by prescription, individual states will handle it. Doctors will handle it. I think it will be great. Weve quickly studying this drug. While were continuing to study it, but the studying is also going to be done in as its given out to large groups of people perhaps in new york and other places. They will study it there. There are promising therapies produced by gilead, and thats remdeservoir, another drug used for other purposes thats been out with good results for other purposes but it seems to have a good result having to do with this virus. And that drug also has been almost approved by the fda. These people are incredible patriots. And the job that steven hahn is doing, dr. Hahn is one of the most respected doctors in the country by the way. We took him. I said, are you sure you want to do this . We didnt know this was going to be in the playlist, what happened here. But he really has stepped up to the plate. Wherever you are, where is he . I would shake his hand, but im not supposed to do that. Get in a lot of trouble if i did that. But he has been fantastic, and i thank you, you doctor. He is going to speak right after im finished. Regeneron is a company thats done fantastic cloudy well with ebola and other things, great company. They are looking at some promising events, also. So you have remdeservoir and chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. So those are two that are out now essentially approved for prescribed use. And i think its going to be very exciting. I think it could be a game changer and maybe not. And maybe not. But i think it could be based on what i see, it could be a game changer. Very powerful. They are very powerful. I want every american to know that were doing everything we can, and these actions are important next steps. For the fda to act the way they acted with this kind of speed is an incredible thing. Normally, they would say, well, we can have it by next year, or we could have it by in two years from now. You understand, this the way normally its like years and years and years. They hthe fact that its been used for other things, totally unrelated things. We believe these therapeutics and others under evaluation right now will be able to provide relief to Many Americans. We hope thats going to be. This could be a tremendous breakthrough, tremendous breakthrough, and we will work toward a muchneeded vaccine in the future as i said. And what were doing with the fda is so exciting in so many other fields. So many things are happening. Its a very exciting time for medicine. We appreciate the public pulling together, really staying home. Theres tremendous spirit in this country of people have not seen. People have not seen anything like it for a long time. And that means democrat, republican, theyre pulling together. I hope everything is going good on the hill. Maybe i shouldnt say this until i check out whats going on because you never know. But i think theres a great spirit where the democrats and republicans and everybody else are getting together and they are trying to get things done. We took the best economy we have ever had and said, stop, you cant work, you have to stay home. Normally, you pay a lot of money to get things going. Heres where we pay money to stop things because we dont want people to be together so that this virus doesnt continue onward. So theres never been anything like this in history. Were doing the right thing. In our big war, its not a financial war. Its a war its a medical war. We have to win this war. Its very important. With that, id like to just introduce dr. Steven hahn, and he again, id like to send back with steven our thanks to all of the people working at the fda who are fantastic talented people. We appreciate it very much, everything you have done, especially the speed you got these two very important drugs passed. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. President. I want to thank you for your leadership during this coronavirus outbreak and thank you for the kind words about the fda staff. We have 10,000 scientists, doctors and others and more than that working around the clock to aid the American People in this fight against the coronavirus. And those words are very much appreciated, sir. Thank you. So before the president nominated me and i was confirmed as commissioner for drugs, i was a cancer doctor. And i have sat across from countless number of patients and had to talk to them about their diagnosis and treatment. And one thing that was really important is to provide hope. I have great hope for how were going to come out of this situation. Whats also important is not to provide false hope but to provide hope. As a doctor, thats the way i come to this. Im speaking now to the American People as commissioner of food and drugs. But that part of me has not left. Just look at the way the American People have responded to our calls for mitigation, for social distancing. American people had great resiliency, and im so incredibly proud of how the American People have responded. As the president mentioned, he asked us to be aggressive, to break down barriers to innovation and to accelerate the development of lifesaving treatments. We are doing that at the fda. The fda committed to continuing to provide regulatory flexibility and guidance. But let me make one thing clear, fdas responsibility to the American People is to ensure that products are safe and effective. And yet we are continuing to do that. Our folks, and theyre tremendous professionals, are working day and night to do this. You cant even imagine how much theyre working to provide this support for the American People. And i thank them. Since early january, long before the first domestic case, fda began working in collaboration with cdc. I also want to note that we set up an Incident Command Group and have been focused on the coronavirus since the very beginning of this Public Health emergency. This is in addition an all government and all american approach for the development of therapeutics. An important part of that work is expanding the potential Therapeutic Options associated with coronavirus, and weve learned from our colleagues across the globe about this. But i want to focus on one thing. I was a cancer researchers before all this. And one thing i know about this great country of ours is that we have unbelievable innovators. We have people who, every day, its their job to develop treatments for all sorts of diseases. We are incredibly blessed as a country to have this. And as is true in any Great American innovators, academia, private sector, they have engaged us about the best possible treatment options. We are looking at everything as pour treatments for coronavirus. We are extremely encouraged by the interest and the promise that we have seen from these Great American innovators. Now, again, we need to look at it. We need the data. We need the information to make the absolute best decisions for the American People. But i want to assure you, we have over 17,000 people at fda who are doing this every day. We need to make sure that the sea of new treatments will get the right drugs to the right patient at the right dosage at the right time. As an example, we may have the right drug, but it may not be in the appropriate dosage form right now. And that may do more harm than good. Those are the things that thats our job to look at, and thats why its really important we have these dedicated professionals looking at these aspects of therapeutic development. At the same time, were also working through different mechanisms to actually get drugs into the hands of providers and patients. The president mentioned this, but one of the compassionate us let me tell about this. If theres an experimental drug thats potentially available, a doctor could ask for that drug to be used in a patient. We have criteria for that and very speedy approval for that. The important thing about compassionate use, this is even beyond right to try, is we get to collect the information about that because one of the things we promise the American People is we will collect the data and make the absolute right decisions based upon those data about the safety and efficacy of the treatments. We are working expeditiously, and we are working to make sure that these products are as safe and effective as they possibly can be. Let me tell you about a few things that were currently working on. This is a plan that was developed with many of the people at this table are Infectious Disease experts on the task force. In the short term, were looking at drugs that are already approved for other indication. So already approved, as the president said, for other diseases. As an example, Many Americans have read study and heard media report about this drug chloroquine antimalarial. Its approved as the president said for the treatment of malaria as well as an arthritis condition. Thats a drug that the president has directed us to take a closer look at as to whether and expanded use approach to that could be done to actually see if that benefits patients. And, again, were going to do that in the setting of a Clinical Trial, a large pragmatic Clinical Trial to actually gather that information and answer the question that needs to be answer ed. Another example. Theres a crossagency effort about something called convalescent plasma. This is an exciting area, again something that we have given assistance to other countries with as this crisis has developed. So fda has been working for some time on this. If you have been exposed to coronavirus and youre better, you dont have the virus in your blood, we could collect the blood now, this is a possible treatment, this is knows a proven treatment, just want to emphasize that collect the blood, concentrate that, and have the ability once its virusfree to be able to give that to other patients and the immune response could potentially provide a benefit to patients. Thats another thing that were looking at. Over the next couple of weeks well have more information that were really pushing hard to try to accelerate that. Thats in the sort of more median short term. That will be a bridge to other therapies that will take us three to six months to develop. This is a continuous process. There is no beginning and end to each of this. This is, you know, were pushing this through. The other great thing about the great innovators of america, some of them tell us its taken us years, years, to develop therapies. They are looking at pushing that to the month period of time. And were trying to provide them the regulatory flexibility, but at the same time the scientific oversight, to make sure that gets done in the best way possible for the American People. The president mentioned that there is a vaccine trial currently being performed. Its a phase one trial, so its the earliest study that gets done. We expect that to take 12 months to get completion to actually a time where we could approve a vaccine. But thats these are all things to bridge to the prevention part of this with the vaccine. Its exciting work, and the president is right, this is record time for the development of a vaccine and impressive publicprivate partnership. The fdas efforts to facilitate the development of these products are focused on ensuring timely access while also the agencys worldrespected gold standard. Relies on strong data and Clinical Trials to determine if an experimental or off the shelf drug thats used for Something Else can safely and effectively treat patients. We want to assure the American People that fda is all hands on deck as the president mentioned. These efforts continue to work with interested sponsors to help expedite the work. We remain steadfast in helping to foster the development of safe and effective therapies for covid19. Thank you. Thank you. Mike . Thank you, mr. President. The White House Coronavirus task force met this morning, and on this very first day of spring we continue to make steady progress toward president trumps objective not only to marshall the efforts of every federal, state, local, government official, but to harness the power of the American Private sector and activities over the last day reflect all of those priorities. Yesterday, the president spoke with americas top physicians and nurses and garnered helpful insights about how we can best serve those who are serving americans that are dealing with the coronavirus. We also had a productive call with over 5,000 state and local officials explaining the federal governments approach and our strong and Seamless Partnership with all 50 states and the territories. Last night as you heard, the president signed the Families First Coronavirus Response act providing free coronavirus testing, paid sick leave, family leave for caregivers and Food Assistance for the needy among a broad range of benefits and today, as the president indicated, we expect