Little different than other hazards and that the focus of osha is to figure out how to make sure the workplace is safe in the most effective way to do that is to have regulations and a standard where employers must protect workers. Osha has had standards for that for people who work on groups or people who dig trenches or people who are exposed to benzene or other carcinogens or even bloodborne pathogens like ebola or hiv aids. Not done in this administration is issue a standard to say employers must protect workers. They have issued some guidance and issued some suggestions. They have not said employers shall do certain things. That one of the industries has come into focus is food plant workers and what they face. The president is using the federal production act when it comes to meet plat meatpacking plants. What should be the requirement for those workers when they go to work and what should be provided for them . Guest every country knows the primary way that we protect all of us
Next, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo updates his states response to the coronavirus outbreak. He announced a producing partnership with regional states for more personal protective equipment, ventilators and test kits. Gov. Cuomo good afternoon. Good to see you all here today. Properly socially distanced. For those of you who do not know, to my right is melissa derosa. To my left is robert mojica. Always happy. Smiling. Today is sunday. Beautiful day in new york city. Sunday for me is a day of reflection. Do a little reflecting. Today is day 64 since we closed down new york. Only 64 days. Feels like a lifetime. Only 64 days. Todays numbers, the total hospitalization rate is down. That is good news. 9786. Below 10,000, which is a big deal for us. You have to go back to may 18, 19th to get near that number. March, im sorry. The total number of hospitalizations is down. The number of intubations is down. Intubation is generally bad news. The number of new cases is 789. That is good news.
I know it looks a little bit different today. And that is because we are over at our Emergency Management Operations Center. This is the area where so much of the work that we do in response to battling covid19 and also the work we do responding to natural disasters and other challenges that we face. Some of it so much of it happens here. It gives us an opportunity to show you a little bit of the inside of our response. Inside of our response. And i want to start today by introducing the head of Emergency Management here in kentucky. Give him an opportunity to welcome you to the center. s name is Michael Dossett and he has been doing a great job. Michael . Michael thank you, governor. Welcome to the state eoc. We christened the building in 2013. We have about 25,000 square feet. We are currently at level three for this operation. We are under unified command. We have 100 personnel working. If you have an opportunity to see some of the floor, they are spread out over a number of buildin
You know how tough it is to share a trail with dozens of others. Pedestrians, bicyclists, can go to the streets. It has moved from the streets to the narrow sidewalks, where runners, pedestrians, jockeys for every inch of space. Im trying to stay healthy, get through this. Starting tomorrow, oakland families will have a lot more space to e get fresh air and practice social distancing. Thanks to the citys flow straig streets program. You should move your body in your local neighborhood. They want them to avoid city streams. In purple. People the can drive in and out but they should slow down. There will be people, children in streets. And frankly, oaklanders vn driven with the thought the that any moment a child can pop out between two parked cars in hatch is how we should drive all the time. Speed demons on the roads. They caught a driver reaching speeds up to 139 miles per hour. Their tweet e, come on, strag up irresponsible. Advocacy groups hope that berkeley is inspired by oakland a
Hey, good morning. Welcome back on this saturday, april 11th. And youre right. [music] were seeing some clod cover out a live look outside over wall there. We have a couple low clouds. Net creek. Cloudy skies, but we do have if you are in southern california, you probably saw sunshine ahead. They got some rain. We will be along in just a well, that low pressure system couple minutes with your micro that was churning just to our south is kind of going to climate forecast. Well, burning man is finally trick its way out and canceled for the first time in its leaving us that cloud cover. Its 34 year run. The world famous festival not but here locally, we will see plenty of sunshine. Immune to our health crisis. Temperatures are mild as you i am here to tell you that we look out the window. A look in san jose, 53 degrees will not be collaborating on and current wind speed not a black rock city in the desert. Factor. Very light. And showcasing those clouds as it is in the multiverse. Well. 5