Felony conviction for possession of a firearm, its likely, guyer says there are others insolved so the investigation continues. That is the latest on this story. Vic lee abc 7 news vic, thank you very much. An attorney and close friend of missing oakland woman told abc 7 news police are questioning a person of interest in this case. The man who abc 7 news is not identifying at this point. Is a registered sex offender. He got back in touch with her. She hasnt been seen since sunday when she told her daughter she was running to the drug store and never returned. Authorities working several leads and located his car and cell phone. Family members believe she will turn up were remaining optimistic she is being held against her will but is safe and will be returned to us. A tip line has been set up. There is also an e mail address, find sandra coke gmail. Com. All of the information is posted on our web site. Were following breaking news right now. Skyline College Closed for the evening, cl
Wa nts been finding out what darlington wants from the balancing balancing of the books. Coronavirus takes its toll on the premier league. Tonights match at Manchester City is postponed after a coronavirus scare involving opponents arsenal. More than 120 british passengers from a virus hit cruise ship in california are on their way back to the uk. And in whether we almost hit 17 degrees in a couple of spots yesterday. The next few days do not look much cooler with a sunshine and wintry showers. All the details here on breakfast. Its wednesday the 11th of march. Our top story. The Health Minister Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus. She first showed symptoms last thursday, the same day she attended a reception with the Prime Minister. Ms dorries is now self isolating at home while Health Officials try to trace anyone shes been in contact with. Iain watson reports. I made a statement onjanuary 28. She is the first mp to contract coronavirus. Health minister who has trained
Lot of are made of what i just named. We have millions of new medical items being made. And purchased. 4. 3 milliongowns, 22 million gloves and 8100 ventilators. We have moved rapidly to mobilize every instrument of american power. This week i invoked the defense production act to compel General Motors to carry out federal contracts for ventilators and i think that they will do a great job. And were working with the major Ventilator Companies in the United States, all big name company, all companies that do vef vef vefrn ventilators. And they are working around the clock and doing a fantastic job. If we make too many, that is okay because i spoke to the p Prime Minister of the uk, bore aboutry jo wore Boris Johnson. And he said that the uk needs ventilators. It is complicated and expensive piece of equipment. This is expensive complicated equipment. So i hope that we will be able to help other countries with them. And the next 100 day, america will require three times more ventilators
You can go to a restaurant. This as a reminder of what is an economic tragedy. 2. 4 more million americans say now they do not have a job. The nineweek total, more than 38 million shoved to the unemployment roles by this virus. Testing is still a backtowork challenge. Experts define the work as unorganized and in need of National Coordination and riddled with mistakes that gave us a picture of just how difficult it is for the country to reopen. One puts a number on the weight to tell americans to stay home. It cost 6,000 lives. Thats the number that columbian researchers say would not have died if social distance measures had been put in place just a week earlier. Two weeks earlier, 80 of all u. S. Deaths could have been avoided, those researchers say. Whether the president and governors and mayors should have acted sooner is one of the debates across america. The president says, quote, we have prevailed. The urgent need now, he says, is to reopen quickly to save american businesses. B
Worldwide. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. That means about one in every 2,000 of the people in the world have been diagnosed. In the United States there are more than 1. 56 million cases. So far weve lost more than 94,000 americans. Also breaking this morning, more than 2. 4 million more americans filed jobless claims last week. The total now stands at 38. 6 million americans in the nine weeks since this pandemic started. For some context, thats about 1 Million People shy of the entire population of california. 30 minutes from now, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo will give that Daily Briefing. Once that starts, well take you there live. As always, we have our doctor on duty to answer our medical questions. Dr. Patrice harris, the president of the american medical association. Well get to dr. Harris in a moment. We have our reporters fanned out across the country covering the crisis affecting all of us right now. We start this thursday with those eye popping jobless numbers