Are reopening. One model just out tonight is nearly doubling its estimates from 72,000 deaths to 135,000 deaths by august. Another estimate, this one from a private trump adminisncumen se to r0and ta a look at t in just two months, deaths in the u. S. From the virus have skyrocketed from 11 on march 4th to more than 8,000 on april 4th. And as we come on the air tonight, the death toll now stands at more than 68,000. All of this as the fight over social distancing is growing and in some places turning violent. Federal prosecutors say a colorado man who had been planning to attend a stayathome protest was caught with pipe bombs in his home, and in flint, michigan, three people are under arrest for murdering a guard at a store. Police say he asked one of them to wear a mask. Still even more states are loosening restrictions, including california where the governor just said some Retail Stores could start reopening on friday. So theres a lot of news to get to tonight. I have team of corres
Rescheduling surgeries and the state will expand its testing capabilities of Governor Newsom stopped short of the news Everyone Wants to hear. Effective immediately masks are now only recommended. Thats not all, the other steps being taken to get the country and the county back in business. In santa clara, the virus started to spread weeks earlier than anyone previously plead. Two people died from the virus in february, neither had travelled overseas. Their lives, thats what so many people want to know. What needs to happen first to allow that to happen. We want so start by talking more about the governors plan to reopen the state. Governor newsom made a minor mod inspection to the shelter at home policy. Hospitals can perform elective surgeries. The goal is to get to the goal of 60,000 tests a day in k58 cal. To help make that happen. The governor received a pledge of 100,000 swabs from the government. He gave no indication when barber shops or nail salons will reopen. Were going to h
When somebody is exposed in our community, that they are going to join us in trying to limit the spread by staying home and isolating or quarantining. Reporter now, there was a tiny bit of loosening offered up at todays News Conference with governor newsom. He was talking about the return of essential surgeries to hospitals for quite some time now hospitals have been reserved for covid19 patients. Now the governor says those hospitals can bring back some of those essential surgeries, those heart surgeries, those hip surgeries, things people need to live to make sure that more Health Outcomes dont pile up in the middle of this crisis. Live in San Francisco tonight, kpix 5 hundreds of Small Business owners were watching the governors News Conference today. Six weeks into the shelter in place order and still no date has been given as to when businesses and restaurants like mexico lindo can reopen. Businesses need time to ramp things up, get employees back on the payroll and for restaurant
Officers to open fire. Right now on the kpix 5 news at 7 00 and streaming in the bay area, change today for the california stayathome order, but there is still no timeline on when people can get back to work. Good evening. What the governor says needs to happen to reopen the economy. Reporter the governor said he wants to be able to trace every single case of covid19 back to the source and isolate cases before they affect the rest of the general population. A key part of the governors plan to determine when it is safe to loosen the stayathome restrictions is identifying and isolating any new cases of covid19. We believe we have the ers beginning with the goal of 10,000. Reporter he emphasized that this would not be an entirely fresh project in such programs are deployed on a local level already for hiv and tuberculosis. You have trained professional workers and local Health Departments that do this every single day. The question that is asked of us is to do it at a scale that we have n
Tensions between washington and beijing sky high. Tonight President Trump threatens to retaliate. Emotional return. A First Responder who came out n retirement to help new york is flown back home after he fell victim to the virus. Racing to a cure a Major International summit looks to fast track possible vaccines. So why didnt the u. S. Show up . Plus a new Antibody Test gets the emergency green light from the f. D. A. , but can these tests really tell if we are immune to the virus . And we have a new series looking ahead to mothers day. Tonight how a chef and her mom bonded in the kitchen and the new challenge they face in the pandemic. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin tonight with two stunning new projections that the death toll thom coronavirus in the u. S. Could drastically increase in the coming weeks just as states are reopening. One model just out tonight i