Bulldozed dirt. That stood between the flames and homes. Is a big concern yesterday and last night that we might have a thunderstorm event that could create a dry lightning and increase winds along the ground. The weather conditions never materialized and lines of defense held. It did not mean that neighbors who had stayed behind slept easily. Or at all. What we did was we slept in shifts to watch and Pay Attention to what was going on. Well, what is it going to take to get that fire out finally . Any idea . First of all they will need some help from mother nature. One of the ironies is on the map it is the biggest of all of the fires plaguing the bay area, but in terms of actual Property Damage it might be the least destructive burning in some open woodlands away from homes generally speaking. What firefighters are ultimately going to need to do is look at the map, figure out where they can set up some defenses in terms of where the fire is headed, and hopefully get it to burn itself
Good afternoon are three people who need no introduction. The woman to my right, the commissioner of the department of health, and to her right, the state epidemiologist, and the man on my left, the state police superintendent. Also joining us per usual is the director of the office of Homeland Security preparedness, Deputy Council of the guard. One quick reminder that is off given the date we the find ourselves meeting, is before i go through our discussion, a quick reminder that although today is april 15, your state tax returns are not due today. Pursuant to the legislation that i signed actually yesterday, you now have until july 15. And the three month extension is automatic. You need do nothing. Just want to remind folks of that. Now we want to get to the numbers up front if we can. Today we are reporting an additional 2625 positive test results and a total of 71,030 new jerseyans have now tested positive. According to our online dashboard, accessible again for gov, as of 10 00 p
Suspending production in South Carolina green arrows across the board. The dow will open about 600 points also looking at the green on the nasdaq and s p 500 if you take a look at what is happening in the treasury as well s p indicated up 72 points in the treasury, youll also see what is happening on the yield in that front. It is the 10year that is yielding closely at 7. 04 . Lets get everybody updated on the latest on the pandemic numbers. Nearly 11,000 people in the u. S. Have died from covid19. The country has more than 361,000 cases. New york has 131,000 of those cases. New jersey reaching a grim milestone with more than 1,000 deaths in the state. Overseas, we have positive numbers from italy that reports its lowest daily number of new cases since march 17 spain reporting its lowest number since march 22nd. The second time since january, china reported no new coronavirus deaths reporting 30 new asymptomatic cases and two with symptoms. President trump has struck a deal to buy mill
Governor murphy good afternoon. We are gathering on what would have been my mothers 105th birthday. And by the way she ended her life for many years in assisted living in a nursing home. And had she been alive today those would be areas that we would be concerned about as i know you are. More on that a little bit. So god bless mom. Joining me up here, a woman to my right who needs to celli. Uction judy peci and christina tan. And colonel pat callahan. Also with us is the Homeland Security jared maples and other members of our team who would be able to answer some of your questions. Over the past 24 hour, so this is since the paper released that we put out yesterday, we have positive 00 347 new positive cases overnight. 3,347 new positive cases overnight. So the statewide positive cases now stands at 16,636. Sadly, i must also report that we have lost since yesterday another 37 New Jerseyans to covid19 related complications again over the past day. Yesterday in our paper release, we had
Rovider. Next, new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy briefs reporters on his states response to the coronavirus. He was joined by state officials and spoke about the number of positive cases and the death toll in new jersey. From trenton, this is an hour and a half. Governor murphy good afternoon. Were gathering on what would have been my mothers 105th anniversary. She ended her life for many years in assisted living and a nursing home. Had she been alive today, those would be areas that would all be quite concerned about, as i know you are. So more on at that in a little bit. So god bless mom. Joining me up here today, again, the woman on my right who needs no introduction, the commissioner of the department of health. To her right, state epidemiologist, thank you. And to my left, state police superintendent. Also with us is the Homeland Security director and other members of our team who will be able to answer some of your questions. Over the past 24 hours so this is since the paper releas