Here are the latest numbers broken down by county. This week. There have been nearly 400 new cases about a 4 jump. Santa clara and alameda counties both have more than 2200 cases reported the complete list of local covid19 cases can be found at our website kron 4 dot com. Tonight only 3 bay area counties have entered phase 2 in reopening their economies thats napa solano and sonoma counties. Starting monday, San Francisco and san mateo counties will begin easing into phase 2 and today marin county announced it will also move into phase 2 on monday may 18th the details on what that means will be released tomorrow. Alameda contra costa and santa clara counties remain in phase, one as the bay area begins to slowly reopen Infectious Disease experts are warning the coronavirus is not gone and people should continue to practice a Public Health directives that got us to phase 2. Kron fours gayle ong joins us now live with that part of the story gayle. And medical experts are cautiously optimi
And ordinary budget presentation governor Gavin Newsome thursday presented his proposed version of the state budget axing 19 billion from his original spending plan in january as the states economy struggles amid the coronavirus newsome anticipating unemployment could peak at 24. 5 in california with a 22 drop in overall state revenue the billion budget keep some programs like boost the minimum wage and maintaining the states earned income tax credit for working families along with continued commitments to health and Public Safety but the governor prepared to throw out 6. 1 billion in Program Expansions and new proposals including extending state Health Insurance to undocumented seniors. The governor also proposing to cut state worker pay by 10 including Health Care Workers and Public Safety personnel. His own salary also included you will hear of cuts that. Not make none of us crowd. But the values nonetheless we are holding on to for now new some plans to use 16 billion from californ
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Short on specifics, but then i had to go into the covid website and i had to take a look at very specific kinds of things. And then i found out that the specifics were also very much lacking. In fact, in many cases, the specifics are suggestions. And when you have suggestions as opposed to specifics, that leaves a lot of people wondering what they have to do. And the last thing people have time to do now is wonder, let alone getting their business started. So, what ive tried to do, in preparing what i have prepared is that ive tried to do something which is a little bit different, and that is to try to be as specific as i think i could. In between the rules. But the thing you have to understand is with 20 Different Industries, you cant be terrhe did today. That leaves a lot of people wondering. So, the governor insists that any reopening anywhere is going to be determined by five things, and that is going to be testing, tracing, data, statistics. And of course, science. You know, when
Today he announced he is banding together with governors of. We begin a process of establishing what it would look like and how we can begin the process of the kind of incremental release of the stay athome orders, that advanced fundamental, keeping people safe, using science to guide our decisionmaking, not political pressure. The state will spend 42 million on support programs for children. Especially children in foster care to help with certain challenges during this pandemic. The white house says it is seeing progress in the coronavirus pandemic, with new infections flatten out across the country. Resident trump also spent time this afternoon pushing back against criticism, by the new york times, and others, that the u. S. Was slow to urge social distancing to fight the virus. This weekend, dr. Anthony fauci set on cnn that if the u. S. Had taken action earlier, it could have saved lives. Today, he said that was in response to a hypothetical question. Mitigation works, and you inst