Processing plants to stay open after many are forced to close due to the virus. What it means for workers safety and your next trip to the grocery store. And a safer tomorrow. How the pandemic is inspiring inventions that could change our lives forever. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. If we prematurely try to open up, it could be a rebound to get us back in the same boat that we were in a few weeks ago. Reporter covid19 has now killed more americans than the vietnam war. Reporter there are now more than one million cases of coronavirus in our nation. Were going to show more cases because were doing much, much more testing, double anybody else. Reporter President Trump signing an executive order to keep Meat Processing plants open amid growing concerns about the nations food supply. Supervisor said its just a virus like the flu. Reporter mike pence is facing backlash after visiting the mayo clinics Virus Testing lab without wearing a mask. Im tested every day a
Abc7news. Com vote. Well leave voting open as we go live to vic lee to kick things off. He got the first look inside the new center today. Vic . Reporter i did, ama. The new Navigation Center is along the embarcadero near beale street and will open by the end of this month but not without controversy. Just outside the Navigation Center, stark reminders of why the refuge is here. For this man, a comfortable bed instead of a hard bench. There are thousands of people sleeping on the streets just here in San Francisco. So we obviously need more shelters and related services. We have restrooms and showers at the far left over here. Reporter mayor london breed and other city officials toured the 4 million Navigation Center, once a parking lot along the embarcadero waterfront. A facility that will have 200 beds and social services and medical care in what the city calls a dignified environment. Our whole philosophy is really to treat this like a hotel, because these are our guests. These are
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Because of the location kron 4 sarah stone following the story joins us live tonight, the city and j r. Youre there at the corner beale and brian streets, the heart of that whats the feeling among those who talked to tonight. Well can it really depends on who you ask i spoke with a number of people who live in that area many of them are against the idea they dont like the fact that its opening up. But i also spoke with a number of people he walked through that area on a regular basis and a lot of those folks are open to the idea and accepting to the idea of this new center. A fence surrounds the backside of the soon to open Homeless Navigation Center in San Francisco. A shelter in the shadow of multimillion dollar condos, the bay bridge and the abarca darrow. I dont feel you know i i still feel its not gonna solve the show its not going solve the problem. Debate and battle to open this location has been a heated one. There are currently 6 Homeless Navigation Centers in the city of San
S p up s p up and the dow indicated up look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei opened up in europe where there is active trading, youll see green ar owes across the board. The ftse was up more than half a percent. Youll see at least the 10year is yielding 1. 8 big news, weworks board now weighing two competing Financial Rescue offers. Expected to accept an offer from softbank to take a controlling stake in the company the decision could come as err will early as today the are rescue package from sofk to buy up to 3 billion in shares held by other investors they would also put together 5 billion in loans sources say theyll pay the founder adam neumann up hundreds of millions to leave you are paying him twice. Hes the only one who has made money on this deal. Meanwhile, theyll begin layoffs almost immediately of almost 2,000 people. One of the reasons they delayed the layoffs is they couldnt afford the severance youll wait here for adam neumann to go home im told that will ke