Weekend. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gave an update on the confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths. The Governor Also Announced Public Schools in the state would be closed for another two weeks until april 15. Good morning everyone. Let me introduce who we have with us today. To my far right we have the president of Empire College who i worked with for many years and has been helpful here on this mission. Our commissioner of health to my left is the general Patrick Murphy who will say more in a moment and to his left is general shields. Thank you for being here today for this is an amazing a compliment transformative in just one week this center looks entirely different and this was a place that is literally going to save lives. Let me go through some facts if i can on a daily update of where we are and then i want to make some comments to all the women and men who are assembled and did such a great job on this facility. The increase in the number of cases continues. We still see tha
Thank you all for joining with us here today. Let me start out by expressing my gratitude to all of our fellow texans for your tremendous efforts that you made over the past few weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. By staying at home, by reducing personal interactions. You are saving lives and you are improving the health of people across our entire state. Let me give you some updated information and then go into more detail. One thing that we continue to do we continue to administer more tests to determine whether or not someone has covid19. As of noon today 42,923 texans have been tested for covid19. Of those tested, 3266 have confirmed positive for covid19. Now there are 122 counties in the state of texas that have at least one reported case of covid19. Very importantly, if you look at the number of people who are hospitalize, we still have only 2. 4 of the hospital beds available in the state of texas for covid19 patients are occupied. Means that 97. 6 of those available be
The time and sweeps are made to make sure customers were not stranded on platforms, the suspension will continue until further notice all trains will undergo a thorough cleaning in the meantime operators have been told to shelter in place until further instructions are given about who needs to be quarantined or tested. Transit Officials Say during the shelterinplace order ridership has declined. 82 across Santa Clara County. Now focus resources on bus services to adapt to Community Needs were standing by for any updates from the vta but in the meantime it looks like riders are going to have to. Make other plans other arrangements for their public transportation. In san jose Sarah Stinson kron 4 news. And new this morning, the Senate Approved one of the largest emergency aid packages in the countrys history to help with the coronavirus shortly before midnight they passed a trillion stimulus package to help boost the us economy suffering from the pandemic heres what the stimulus package
That, you see some famous sites of new york as it passed through the statue of liberty sailing into lower manhattan. World trade center in background of one of these sites, brings up memory this ship has been here before. Three days after 9 11 it helped out with first spenders then. It is back for a second go around. You have 12 operating rooms. 700 beds put into circulation right away. Mayor de blasio speaking, talking about new york has been asking for help and now the help has arrived. Heres the mayor. I cant tell you how much this means. It is so much more than even we realized at this moment, that our nation has heard our plea for help here in new york city and there could not be a better example of all of america pulling for new york city than the arrival of the usns comfort. Some major, major moment in this long battle. Connell mayor de blasio thanking by name both President Trump and defense secretary mark esper in participate of his remarks. You see numbers. New york needs hel
Good morning, everyone. We haventroduce who with us. We have jim, the president of Empire College who i worked with for many years and who has been very helpful on this mission. Our commissioner of health dr. Howard zuker. Left, general Patrick Murphy. To his left is general agreement raymond shields. Thank you for being here today. This is an amazing accomplishment, transformative, in just one week the Javits Center looks entirely different. This is a place that is literally going to save lives. Let me go through some facts, if i can. On a daily update of where we are and i want to make some comments to all the women and men who are assembled and do such a great job on this facility. The increase in the number of cases continues. We see the trajectory going up. Plan of action. Step one, one flattened the curve, we increase capacity. Flattening the curve meaning if you do it as well as you can do it hopefully there is no high point of the curve, no apex. It is a flatter lower curve. Wh