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
People. Empty store shelves becoming the norm this morning. Amazon to hire a hundred thousand workers and Major Grocery chains adding jobs as well to keep up with demand as well. More countries closing borders. Things have reversed course and dow industrials showing decline of 96. Nasdaq up 29 but s p is are youer by 12 and a half after dow, nasdaq and s p 500 had biggest oneday point loss in history. It was 13 in a day. 12 and a third percent and the s p gave up 324 points yesterday, 12 , yeah, quite a day on wall street. Primary day on ohio. Voting still taking place in arizona, florida and illinois. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria we want to check Global Markets this morning, asian markets were mixed overnight. Remember, we did have a pretty good upswing at the end of the day coming off of the lows and into the premarket, this morning we had rally and that reversed. In china, the shanghai composite down third a percent. Oil prices rising after hitting new 52week low yes
Well, i definitely miss you guys. Since we have a little bit of cabin fever let me show you a different view outside the windows. The south bay, peninsula, trivalley. Lets get right to those views outside in case maybe youve been seeing your view too much. Enjoy it. Soak it all in. The clouds make for a beautiful sight. Look at the south bay, 50 degrees. We do have the showers sweeping through the peninsula, 45, very cool, comfortable. The trivalley, 48. In the east bay check out the cloud cover. 53 degrees. San francisco a little bit of shower activity as well as areas in the north bay. A chance of showers because of all of this instability still. Its not going to be a very powerful storm. Its the remnants of that system you saw pushing through yesterday. That will continue to make its exit out and we should see good clearing by this evening. Overall i will take you through a look at your temperatures and the dry trend ahead. For now, kira, back to you. All right. We look forward to s
Florida, as well as a handful of others. For senator Bernie Sanders, based upon my reporting, i can tell you two things. They are trying to develop some type of operation for a contested invention that has been in the works for several months, but two, to try to change the trajectory and dynamics of the race it what increasingly feels like a unified Democratic Party be fined behind joe biden. David many thanks to Kevin Cirilli reporting from washington. A lot of this market is about testing. Hhsust had alex a czar, the saying 75 thousand by the weekend. Now they say they will not get that out. Drew with an Infectious Disease like this, the key message we have in our arsenal is to try to stop this is to say identify people who are infected and stop them from spreading into other people i saying stay home or be in the hospital or whatever, depending on how sick they are. Ifyou cannot ask people you cannot test people, you cannot do that. We are seeing these afterthefact cases where someb
First possible outbreak of the illness and a longterm care center more than 50 people in a nursing facility are sick and being tested for the virus, a woman in her 40s who works at the facility and a resident in her 70s have both tested positive for coronavirus. We believe that these are cases of Community Acquired transmission acquire here in king county. When what that says to is as we test more will likely find more cases of this disease because most of them are mild, we expect infection will increase over time and so we know we can stop it. Its going to its here and its going to be here with us in the us for quite a while. Officials in oregon Washington State and here in california are worried about the Novel Coronavirus. Spreading through west coast communities because people are being infected by unknown means Santa Clara County announced its 4th case of coronavirus the countys Public Health Department Says the patient as an adult woman contracted the virus by being in contact wi