To the economy. Also it could be even more contagious. The new study raising a red flag about a new strain of the virus. Good evening and thanks for being with us. Im raj mathai. And im jessica aguirre. Despite warnings to stay home, Police Officers are managing Cinco De Mayo crowds and traffic, and san jose is a trouble spot. Heres nbc bay areas jean elle. Reporter mexican pride on display in san jose tonight. Cruising with flags flying and music playing in east san jose. Downtown the line of cars took over several city blocks. Bu also gatherings. Cinco de mayo and the activity, you know. Its fun. Reporter in this parking lot, strangers mingled, some wearing masks, some not. Santa clara county has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the bay area. The lopez family was trying to celebrate carefully. Obviously theres some people not respecting the social distancing rules, and we still wanted to come out here and celebrate. This is why we havent left our cars. Reporter simon ortiz
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
Knows why they were targeted. This is the view customers out of waiting for their boba tea drinks outside seven leaves cafi in san jose. Shattered windows everywhere and a Glass Company on hand to repair them. No window was spared. It was actually kind of heartbreaking because we are just trying to operate like a normal daytoday business and this just creates concerns for our employees. Reporter the owner alerted around 5 50 wednesday morning. Close by someone also smashed the windows. Broken glass everywhere. I mean there is a total of probably i have six windows right now that are all broken. Reporter stanley is the owner of lee sandwiches. s family owns three other lee sandwiches. All were vandalized. At first he thought it was personal. Then after a while i found out he was hitting other stories and restaurants as well. So you know, it is scary in the beginning, but now im trying to figure out why he was going around doing this. Reporter in total, seven asian owned businesses targe
Mallicoat. Good morning i am Claudine Wong and lets go to like being the first to check in. Meteorologist Rosemary Orozco for the forecast and we all got or the first to try you hand at the culinary arts. The purple memo today, frank or all the arts. Be the first to volunteer. Or the first to say its all going to be okay. Pointed out first and i love we are all on the same wavelength if not in the same building. And when the day comes, that is right i am feeling your when were no longer looking at our worlds from the inside out. It will be what we did in here vibe. And we have potted plants with that will make us stronger out there. Purple behind me, waking up the cloud cover along the coastline and parts of the bay, cooler whaso lets do the rightver chanthing, today. Ow. Temperatures for many around the bay area and this is a look from the east bay towards the lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Lets always keep our distance bay bridge and into San Francisco where you can see the please,
Not that great no the coast. But in temps will be about 10 to 15 degrees above, you guys. Lets head over to sal now and see if theres anything new going on. Good morning custody. Right now, we have traffic that is mostly good and not a lot new as you mentioned. We have the commute, not much of one. Will, you know, people are going to work. But a lot of people are working from home. You just saw the bay bridge, were going to look at it again. And you can see that there is not much going on. Now, there have been a couple minor things and just as you have but mentioned, everyone has been mentioned, how fast people seem to be going. Chp still issuing citations, so dont speed because theres a good chance with a few cars on the road, chp will be able to spot you very quickly. It is 7 01. Lets go back to dave. All right, sal thank you 4 million more people filed for unemployment last week into wallet from covid19. The new Labor Department report just came out this morning. Ktvus Elissa Harrin