Vice president mike pence and South Carolina governor held a conference on reopening schools this fall. This is 50 minutes. Welcome everyone. All right. Im ready to welcome everyone here to the university of South Carolina this is where we have had many of our meetings concerning the pandemic and we have gotten a lot of great ideas in this place and we have some more today. We appreciate very much the effort of the Vice President , the secretary, the administrator for coming in and being with us. The superintendent. We look forward very much to your questions. Thank you governor Henry Mcmaster. I want to thank you and the first lady peggy for the hospitality today. Karen and i are honored to be here with you, grateful for your strong and steadfast leadership throughout this pandemic. As we see cases rising across South Carolina, on behalf of the president in our entire White House Coronavirus task force government, i want to thank you for the Seamless Partnership that we have forged on
Early today starts right now good morning on this wednesday. Im cori coffin. And im frances rivera. An epidemic with no end in sight. The coronavirus reaches a grim milestone as the american death toll hits the triple digits. Heres what you need to know at this hour. As the deadly outbreak evolves, u. S. Officials are boosting measures to combat coronavirus in new york city the shutdown threatens to go further. Mayor bill de blasio urging new yorkers to prepare for a shelter in place order a decision will be made within the next day or so as hospitals become strained by a surge of patients the pentagon announced it is getting 5 million respirator masks and also 2,000 ventilators to the department of health and Human Services secretary of defense mark esper said 1 Million Masks would be available immediately. And one South Carolina School District is putting meals on wheels the anderson School District is delivering breakfast and lunch to thousands of students the bus driver miss patric
33 cal 9600 and napa. 6400 and san mateo county. We have Team Coverage beginning with and san mateo county. Reporter pg e will possibly shut the power off later this week. Possibly. But no final decision has been made. We are hoping the weather a dont have to do this. Reporter wildfire conditions are headed back to northern california. So the Power Company is laying the groundwork for another preemptive power shut off. In the bay area customers in sonoma and napa counties are being notified their power could shut off as soon as wednesday. San mateo county it could be lights out early thursday morning. The public will be notified of the decision wiread governor said this last power shutdown was unacceptable. If im hearing you right you sit there were problems but it is going to go on. You even said in that meeting if this is going to go on for another decade. Pg e is being arrogant about that. Can you address that . I think we are being realistic. What i was intending to convey. We have
33 cal and napa. 6400 and san ing with and san mateo county. Reporter pg e will possibly shut the power off later this week. Possibly. But no final decision has been made. We are hoping the weather breaks in our favor and we dont have to do this. Reporter wildfire conditions are headed back to northern california. So the Power Company is laying the groundwork for another preemptive power shut off. In the bay area customers in sonoma and napa counties are being notified their power could shut off as soon as wednesday. San mateo county it could be lights out early thursday morning. The public will be notified of the decision on wednesday. The power shut off prevented fires earlier this month. The problems and widespread criticism. The governor said this last power shutdown was unacceptable. If im hearing you right you sit there were problems but it is going to go on. You even said in that meeting if this is going to go on for another decade. Pg e is being arrogant about that. Can you add
Shows is getting warmer and 75 degrees along the coast. Pushing 80 run around the bay depending on where youre at. They will be pushing 90 in some of those areas and potentially in the north. Headline today has that mild clear star. It is going to get only drier and hotter as he discontinued. We are keeping an eye on the wind speeds. The direction is offshore flow. That will bring the potential fire danger later in the week. About 200,000 customers could be getting their power preemptively shut off again. Our reporter is live at the station with the anticipated impact. 16 counties across the bay area face the threat this morning. The counties also include sonoma county. Thousands of customers there that can fill the biggest impact. 33,000 customers in the blackout on. 6400 in San Mateo County. There are hoping they do not have to do this. The recipe is there right now. Strong winds and low humidity. Pg e says the powers of those preventive fires earlier this month. There is still a lot