And in his shall we say week group has but hes more visibly of these 6. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responding to President Trumps revelation that hes been taking hydroxychloroquine despite an fda warning about the drugs safety and efficacy of the covid19. Thank you for joining us on this tuesday may 19th im James Fletcher and im darya folsom in our big story is california relaxing the rules in more counties. Allowing some businesses to reopen governor newsome estimates all but 5 of the 58 counties across the state are likely eligible to begin offering in restaurant dining in just the coming weeks. Counties that meet the new criteria can also begin opening schools with modification yeah, the new criteria requires counties to have a stable covid19 related hospitalizations with no more than 20. Covid hospitalizations in the past 2 weeks counties must also have fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 in the last 2 weeks or less than 8 of tests coming back positive in the last 7 days so some pretty
But the numbers tell us the virus is still a big problem its its a big number its not that. Well. And which. Doctor Michael Stacey with Lifelong Medical care says as businesses reopen and more people get out they need to keep in mind how easily covid19 can spread he contributes some of the numbers going down to shelterinplace orders which changed our behavior, however, the doctor says that does not mean we should rush back to the way things were. I was still spread very rapidly and very easily. If we were to go back like the storm like this we knew it before. Models are projected covid19 deaths have fluctuated over the last few months the latest numbers from the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation show by august more than 140,000 americans will have died from the virus doctor stacy says these numbers are predictions based on an increase in Human Interaction over the next few months even as we start activities free up that it doesnt mean that we. Dont need to start very cautious
Together to protest racial injustices. These protests began in response by Minneapolis Police officers with the recent killings of other africanamericans. My prayers go out to the family and the long list of other victims. I stand in solidarity with all of those who are peacefully protesting and challenging the status quo. But these protests are more than the treatment off africanamericans and police but also the racial inequities from our society have been festering for years and are now magnified by the coronavirus that we are here to talk about. This racial inequity in healthcare from this pandemic africanamericans and latinos and other people of color that are hospitalized and dying from cove in 18 at alarming rates. It with that disproportionate rate and those that represent just 4 percent of the population of arizona or 21 percent of the coronavirus in that state so the last week subcommittee briefing that that was exacerbated by the crisis who have an urgent and Larger National
Going on, dan. Mayor breed came out today saying there is good news for a change. Starting may 18th, next monday, the city will allow all street front businesses to open for pickup and delivery. What this means now for our city is incredible. Because were talking about many of those Small Businesses and various neighborhoods you see many of those shops that are closed. They will be able to open for pickup and for Curbside Pickup and delivery, which is going to be incredible. This does not include malls, for example. But it does include in San Francisco. And were talk close to 95 of businesses which have unfortunately been closed. This is not only going to support the jobs that hopefully many will return as a report, and people who love these businesses and want to see them continue. Its a continued step. We also will be allowing warehouses and manufacturing as well to open under certain guidelines. And i want to also caution everybody. Even though this is exciting, we still need to be
Is thursday, may 7th thank you for joining us this morning we appreciate all of our early risers. There are quite a few of them out there. Steve paulson i can feel yes, they do. Beautiful moon outside. Yes. 345 this morning. Clear skies and no problem seeing that. Yesterday we started warmup we will probably top it out here for most, again sometimes it takes another day so it might warmup but normal high 73 to 79. Yesterday 81 and santa rosa 88. Livermore worked 85degrees and we started out with 40s and 50s and 55 in the city, 49 over the san luis 48degrees in there is a breeze and that breeze is coming off making for some mild conditions. In and around the corner. High pressure though is your friend if you have warm temps today and tomorrow are tailor made for you if you love him. 70s and 80s way above average but a big change by sunday and monday morning. Hopefully so far so good sal. So far so good. We do have traffic that is moving along very well along the bay area and we can see