It highlights the urgency with which supplies are needed to protect essential workers on the front lines treating those who have fallen victim. The governor said that higher numbers show that Health Care Workers are churning through supplies on hand. But when youre burning through 46 Million Masks monthly. Even having 100 million of the n95 masks and inventory you can go through those pretty quickly. Reporter going big is the name of the game. He announced the state is extending an agreement with a chinabased manufacturer to purchase 120 million n95 masks. In 300 million surgical masks. A big number for a big order which Governor Newsom says is far from over. We really get the price down significantly. We are in a different environment. And we will demand more competitive pricing. Not only in this environment going forward. Reporter is the name of the manufacturer sounds familiar be whitey. Thats because the governor inked a deal to pay the company 1 billion for masks. The federal gove
Our state. You heard him there. More than 12,000 cases. Also sadly more than 115 more deaths in just one day. Staggering numbers that suggest we have a long way to go here. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. With that in mind, the governor announced hes spending 350 million to secure a fresh supply of masks for doctors, nurses and other essential workers. Ktvus andre senior begins our coverage. Reporter from a warehouse in sacramento wednesday wear personal protective equipment like surgical masks and gloves are stockpiled, governor gavin newsom held his first press Briefing Since new numbers show california has the highest numbers in the country. We tested a cohort that was slightly in excess of the average number of test. Reporter 12,807 people tested positive tuesday, bringing the states total to 409,000 infections there was a sharp rise in mortality too with 115 deaths for a total of 7870. With that number of 115 just yesterday, its just another proof
We have a new crash on westbound 92. You can see, if you are driving across the san mateo bridge, as soon as you get off the bridge, you will notice traffic, because of an overturned car, west 92 at 101. It looks like it could be there for a minute. Not a minute, i mean, it is a figure of speech. It could be there for a few minutes. If you use the san mateo bridge, use the don barton bridge, we will have more coming up. Lets go back to the headlines. Thank you, sal, we start breaking news. The Labor Department released the unemployment report for the week. 1. 4 million americans file for new Unemployment Benefits last week. That is higher than wall street and economists projected. Layoffs are high as businesses are ordered to shut down again because of resurgence in coronavirus cases. It is the 18th straight week that the number of unemployment claims have topped 1 million. The number of Weekly Applications had never exceeded 700,000 previously, and whil report from the bureau of labor
And the nasdaq is indicated up by 66 points lets take a look at whats happening in the treasury market the other thing worth watching, wti, crude oil prices. Last i saw up another 7 to 31. 51, so seeing wti above 30 a barrel the tenyear note is yielding 0. 64 . Andrew thank you, becky. Hope everybody had a great weekend. We have an update as we do every morning these days on the pandemic lets give you the total numbers right now. Global cases have reached 4. 7 million with 1. 4 million right here in the United States. More than 90,000 people in the United States have now died from this virus changes are coming to our nations airports as well. The tsa reportedly preparing now to check passenger temperatures at about a dozen locations as soon as this week. Airlines have begun urging the government to take steps in an attempt to keep potentially sick people off planes and make travelers feel more comfortable flying again, which is going to be so crucial not only to everybodys health but t
That retaliation comment that mentions boeing. Did not mention apple, but apple is acting terribly did not mention Applied Materials. Had a great quarter, stock reversed badly its a surprise. I dont understand whats happening with boeing. You have this you have the ceo, who is blasting the clients, then you have china who doesnt want boeing, and a queue for boeing planes that is dissolving i dont like anything im hearing about boeing nothing. You mentioned the editor for the global times, he does say based on what i know, if you block further, we can add you to the unreliable list, and he says qualcomm, cisco, apple as well as suspending the purchase of boeing planes. This is terrible. The china haters and china lovers should look at our retail sales and say, you know what maybe we have to shut up a little bit here. Maybe were not as strong as wed like and we should hold out until were stronger ive been the hardest line on china. Everybody knows that im harder than peter navarro. But t