Once again pass are now 4. A Bipartisan Legislation to address the coronavirus crisis. If lawmakers pass a bipartisan bill for billion to help Small Businesses hospitals and to pay for coronavirus testing across america. The bill is now on its way to the president s desk. Were seeing that patients are responding within the first couple days following the single joes drive and what weve seen from the blood work and the clinical responses has been utterly amazed. San francisco, researchers are using an existing drug to treat coronavirus patients and they say theyre seeing promising. Results. It is friday april 24th, im James Fletcher thank you for joining us our top story this morning heard a moment ago all eyes on georgia today as Governor Brian Kemp plans to reopen his state and restart the economy. Its a move the President Trump disagrees with jim acosta has more. It was a major reversal as President Trump came out against georgia Governor Brian Kemps moved to reopen businesses in the
That i know so many of you demand and deserve. Reporter we are making progress, but we are neither there yet. That is the message from governor gavin newsom. Good evening, everyone. The governor says the curve has been flattened and hospitalizations and icu numbers have leveled off. Widespread testing have to be available before the state can reopen. Governor newsom has set a goal of 60,000 tests each day, up from the 16,000 that are available right now. He also said President Trump told him the 100,000 testing swabs are on the way, with 250,000 coming to california the following week. The governor said ramped up testing will supporting strong Contact Tracing program to identify people who have been exposed to the virus. The governor did announce one modification to the current shelter in place, hes allowing hospitals to resume surgeries and other procedures that were delayed. Resuming surgeries is a big relief to patients and doctors alike. Hospitals need the procedures for revenue an
And you can see traffic all the way down to the maze taking around 60 minutes and it bay bridge toll plaza doing pretty well. 80 seniors living in an assisted Living Center in san pablo said their holidays or anything but mary now they have been told they have to move. The brookdale san pablo assisted Living Center told us residents just before thanksgiving but have to find another place to live at the end of january and other spinning their holidays in a frantic search for housing. I was devastated because the first thing that came to my mind is the fact i do not have a lot of money and everything is so costly. I have to try to find a place to live. In california it seems make sense that operating company can say that we just choose not to be in the Long Term Care business anymore after they havetakerm care facility. Brookdale told ktvu in a statement saying that the leasing of this community and the longer with brookdales strategy to own rather than lisas properties and brookdale has
Traffic is going to be busy as you drive over the hill. Once you get to livermore, it looks okaybulbar it toll bridge you can jump several streets brought off in San Francisco. Sarah is near all of that activity. Sarah, if you are there, what is happening out there . Reporter a morning, day. The situation has been resolved. We do know a man is in custody. Right now, we are on the corner of jude and ninth street. I will step out of the way and you can see what the scene looks like. There is still San Francisco Police Officers walking off part of judah street at ninth street. Not as intense as it was 30 minutes ago. Which is spoke with a Police Officer with the San Francisco Police Department, and he gave us this information. At 2 am this morning, a marked San Francisco police unit was driving by, three women came out of an apartment, they said they were being accosted willi into his house on judas street, and, according to the officers, he said he would not let them out and he said he h
When the me will open. The chp officer i spoke with says that he expects this highway, the southbound lanes torques be closed at least until 8 00 tonight. And they are asking people to avoid this area if at all possible. And we will bring you more information as it becomes available. Reporting live in san jose, im andrea nakano, kpix5. Thank you. Now, onto that breaking news in the San Francisco District Attorneys race just over an hour interim da susie loftus conceded the race to chaseateyin thpublic Defenders Office who ran on a platform of reducing prison populations and promoting Restorative Justice and rehabilitation programs. Loftus is currently the interim da appointed by london breed last monthment she tweeted i didnt win the race, but we won the support of so many in San Francisco demanding our city work more effectively together to build safety congratulations to chase. I will work to ensure a smooth transition. As for the District Attorney elect. He tells kpix5 the people of