County. After 5 days of arduous negotiations. After sleep deprived nights and marathon negotiating sessions. A bipartisan agreement on the largest rescue package in american history. This is not a moment of celebration, but one of necessity. While you were sleeping. The white house says it has reached a deal with congress for a stimulus package to help bring the struggling economy back as the current coronavirus pandemic continues in this country, Senate Democrats had strongly rejected the original version that was introduced on monday. They argued that is focused too much on wall street and didnt spend enough money on main street businesses and the health care system. Full details have yet to be released. But the breakdown look Something Like this. A total of billion for direct payments to people individuals and families. 350 billion in Small Business loans. 250 billion in Unemployment Insurance benefits and 500 billion in loans for distressed companies. A final vote in the senate is
Downloaded a ventilator manual and taught employees overnight how to repair ventilators. They then set up an Assembly Line and went to work. A week ago none of us knew anything about ventilators other than we knew what it was being used for, okay . But at the end of the day, here is what we knew. Manufacturing is in our dna. Innovation is in our dna. One treatment that we know works are ventilators. So we need more of them. Reporter the ventilators theyre working on are expired or out of warranty. A company has already delivered 80 ventilators to the state to be dispersed at hospitals, and today alone employees are inside working to prepare 120 more. And the companys facility back east is also working to refurbish ventilators. So this really is Silicon Valley innovation at its best during a real time of need. Terry . Thanks so much. The demand for ventilators continuing to rise. Governor newsom saying icu and hospitalization skyrocketed overnight. Newsom says icu numbers spiked 105 ove
Upper 50s. Well get one completely dry day in this weekend before more rain is on the way. Reggie . All right, thank you so much. Governor newsom made an extraordinary move last night when he told all beds for coronavirus hospitals. Jobina has more on that. Californias fight against the coronavirus is keeping Seton Medical Center in daly city open. The hospital recently made headlines about its imminent closure but now Governor Newsom says it will undergo a multimillion dollar project to get ready for patients. 177 hospital beds will be designated, excuse me, for covid19 patients at seton. The state is also planning to transform dorms to house patients. The governor is asking the federal government to ready field hospitals and bring a Navy Hospital ship to los angeles. If nothing number of californians sickened would overwhelm our health care system. An attack rate of about 56 . That the virus will impact about 56 of us. You do the math in the state of california, thats a particularly
Governor newsom calls the statewide shelter in place order a pivotal move and the governor spoke last night and said if nothing is done, the virus will impact 56 of californians in the next eight weeks. That is a worsecase scenario there. Meanwhile Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti appeared to say he is on board. It is critical for all people to stay inside their homes and immediately limit all nonessential movement. I think we all fantasize that our city, our state, our country has a protective mote. If we can just keep those people out and if we can have a bubble around us. Its not coming. But the history is clear and this disease is clear, we have to take steps early. None of us have the adequate infrastructure for this and our best shot is to push this out. These are acts of love for people and the precious lives we want to protect. Heres a peek at what the roads have been looking like in l. A. This week. This is video from earlier this week of interstate 405 at 6 00. If you have eve
From over. In fact, its only beginning. We have learned that within the past 24 hours, there was a 105 increase in patients admitted to the icu. During that same time period, a nearly 40 jump in hospitalizations. That is fueling a push tonight to get even more medical equipment into the state. And all of that coming as the u. S. Reaches a very grim milestone. More than 2,000 people have now died in the u. S. From coronavirus. Just thursday, there were 1,000 deaths. A startling jump in just two days. Lets begin our Team Coverage with nbc bay areas marianne favro. Governor newsom toured a south bay company and theres a new plan that could help a lot of people. Reporter thats right, terry. Before coronavirus, bloom energy was making fuel cells. But now employees have switched gears entirely, and they are now refurbishing ventilators. Now, dozens of those ventilators are on their way to hospitals across the state. Governor gavin newsom says with covid19 sending more californians into inten