The president s initial 15 day period of social distancing expires tomorrow. Hes now extended the voluntary worse Case Scenario when it comes to the National Shutdown by 30 days. Good evening, everyone. Im Frank Somerville working from home tonight. Coronavirus pandemic. Im julie haener. Many state leaders are calling on the government to provide his recommendations come as more medical equipment. California is ramping up its they say they desperately need efforts to fight the virus. The u. S. Navy hospital ship mercy has docked in los angeles more medical equipment, but those requests at least right and is now taking its first now are not being granted. Patients. The ship is taking reporter as the number of noncoronavirus patients so Coronavirus Infections surges other nearby hospitals can nationwide, hospitals are handle the increase in covid19 facing a desperate shortage of medical supplies and equipment. Among the most critical, patients. The usns mercy has 1,000 beds, ventilators.
Other nearby hospitals can the latest measures taken in handle the increase in the fight including the food and Drug Administration authorizing a new rapid test. Coronavirus patients, this as the fda authorized a New Santa Cruz county has death fro test developed by abbott labs coronavirus. That delivers lightning fast ktvus greg liggins here now results in as little as five with the story of a bay area minutes. Reporter with 50,000 tests family coping with the loss of expected to be delivered each a loved one from coronavirus. Day the deployment of rapid reporter yeah, frank. Testing will vastly accelerate with the number of sick and our ability to monitor, track, dying growing day after day contain and ultimately defeat after day, its easy to forget the virus. We have will defeat the. That behind every number there is a person and one of the people to hit the casualty count recently is a woman from virus. Reporter fema is building additional hospitals in new york, new jersey and loui
Today we are announcing a new effort, healthcore. Ca. Gov that will provide a platform to match individuals that may have retired in the last five years that are nursing students or medical students that are nearing to incorporate and encourage them to be good on the platform to provide for the platform and meet the moment over the course of the next number of weeks as they continue to rise. We couldnt be more pleased by the incredible professionalism of nurses and doctors, our professional representatives that came together across many differences and organized to provide more flexibility, more Surge Capacity for the system. Allowing us to utilize our existing resources in a more resourceful way. I want to thank all the representatives for putting aside those differences and meeting this moment head on. To provide the flexibility that is required to meet this moment. We have an executive order that went out that will provide flexibility through june 30. This is temporary flexibility o
Its wednesday january 8, 2020. Heres todays eye opener your world in 20 seconds. I will say this, if iran does anything that they shouldnt be doing, theyre going to be suffering the consequences and very strongly. Iran fires Ballistic Missiles alt American Forces. No known casualties at this time. President trump tweeting all is well at this time. We can say okay you hit me, i hit you, lets step back from the brink. The boeing 737 crashed outside the airport of irans capital city. There were no survivors. Mitch mcconnell said he secured enough votes to push through rules of the impeachment trial. The husband of missing connecticut mom Jennifer Dulos has been charged with murder. His girlfriend has also been charged. Puerto ricos governor declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes killed at least one person. The suns game, they had a puppy race. Look at that. Oh, man. And all that matters. Facebook now banning what they call deep fake videos. These videos can make it ap
High wind watch. Those are wind gusts as high as 30 Miles Per Hour. Where there is rain there is also snow. The sierras are expecting another dumping of snow. With they could see several feet of snow there. We will talk more about that and how long that will last when we come back. Amid the cold water whether a body was discovered in el cerrito. The person appears to have died of exposure. This morning the low temperature in el cerrito was 40 degrees. Daytime highs broke records in San Francisco. It never warmed past 48 degrees. Local stores are stocked and ready to help keep residents warm. Summers gone and winter is here. That is all i can say. Reporter Michelle Owens runs an ace hardware store. It she noticed it was colder over the last few days. I was coming through the caldecott area and there was rain and snow everywhere. Reporter no snow in oakland but people are coming in looking for one thing. Heaters. I guess we are out of them this year because we had a long summer. Everyone