Prompting new efforts to better deal with the new realities. Michele miller reports. Reporter hospitals were always designed to treat the ill. But battling covid19 over the last seven months pushed many to their limits. The assumption if you get sick we willor you is a false assumption. Reporter hospitals like chicagos Rush Medical Center have began to spring into action. We created a command center to bring together all of the people in the organization that represent all of the potential landmines and unmet needs that we may have. Reporter president and ceo at rush. Then we just took a giant board and we wrote down how do we physically change the hospital to take care of larger numbers of people. The process started eight years ago, long before the pandemic when rush added a new wing to their hospital. When you build something for the future of health care, you try to add something with flexibility or agility in it and we built an 830,000 square foot building in the city that has the
Get as it relates to the czu complex fires as the santa cruz, San Mateo County fires and this is a live picture from. The podium there where we expect cal fire officials to speak momentarily. So this News Conference was scheduled to get underway the top of the hour. So were probably moments away from that happening, well keep an eye on the shot and the minute they come there to the microphone to give us the very latest will jump back to our live coverage but right now lets cover the lnu complex fire which is in the north bay. This map shows you the area burned around sonoma napa and solano counties kron fours sara stinson is live in napa county with a closer look at the damage to homes and other property sarah. The devastation is hard to see with your own eyes and i hope by us being live here you can really get a good idea of how awful the hennessy fire has been ripping through napa county salon a county here alive above Lake Berryessa in this Highlands Community look at this this is a
Fours will tran has been getting these numbers and updated in live from the cal fire base in Scotts Valley. Well. So unfortunately that number gone up has gone up james and area, the containment number has not gone up still sitting at 19 containment, but they will take it because the acreage has not exploded look at this this fog here they love seeing this fog. It brings moisture rises the humidity raises the humidity and it brings it cooler makes a cooler for the firefighters who are working so hard to put out these fires. Let me show you some video of whats going on the fires continue to burn through santa cruz and san mateo counties right now were sitting at 80,138 acres thats only up however, 1000 acres from yesterday so these controlled burns that theyre doing. Its slowing down the fire eating through the hillside. So well see the numbers exploding. Unfortunately, the evacuees still not allowed to return at this time. But the hope is over the next day or so they will change the Ev
The day trying to determine if homes are still standing. She joins us now from davenprt. Stephanie . Its been an emotional week for people trying to see if their home is still there. We visited the Civic Auditorium just east of us that has been at full capacity for seven days in a row. Its one of the dozen shelters taking evacuees in. Its just south of here where we met many families. You notice that haze that stretches through the mountain significantly better than 48 hours ago. Their homes are in the middle of the fire zone, and all they can do now is wait. These are like tears of joy, tears of sorrow, because its very bittersweet. Its very sweet that my family is okay. Reporter Kathy Azevedo is living through the pain of simply not knowing. All you can do is take one day at a time and just be thankful for what is, you know, instead of what was. You really cant look back. Reporter mourning the thought of losing everything, she sat in her car praying for her family, her parents and he
To accommodate the need for 6 feet of space between our students in their classes, hallways. And in common spaces. That could also include hybrid learning with some students in class while others learned from home. Answers in guidance could come thursday during a Virtual Meeting with state education officials and leaders from california is 1000 School Districts members from the School Reopening task force or expected this year there are early findings johnson psaki with oakland unified schools will be watching we imagine this is going to fall ppe for everybodys can imagine a physical distancing for everybody is going involve extra cleaning disinfecting during the course of any school day. So you know we really want to know what thats going to look like some that the state perspective. Psaki says the district is working on a plan of its own but is looking for leaders to step up to provide more guidance. So lucky says with 35 million cut from the budget because of covid19 on top of the 2