Has converted operations to refurbish old ventilators. Thank you for joining us today. Im andre senior. Good evening. Im cristina rendon. President trump is also working to curb the spread of the coronavirus on the east coast. Earlier today, the president said he was considering a quarantine of new york, new jersey and connecticut, the 3 states hit hardest by the coronavirus. By later this evening, the president backtracked and said acorns he was not necessary instead implemented a strong travel advisory. This is the number of cases in the United States hits 124,000. In california, now 5000 cases and 120 deaths and 5 people have died bringing the total number of deaths to 25. Governor gavin newsom toward blue manager this morning and said the company is already scaling up operations to manufacture ventilators for severe covid19 patients. Tran wants Leigh Martinez has more on the growing need in california for more of the life saving devices. Reporter governor gavin newsom says the stat
Been filed in there under negotiations. Life coverage now to the floor of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. Www. Iowaculture. Gov. I yield the floor and i suggest the absence of a quorum. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. Quorum call mr. Mcconnell madam president . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Mcconnell yesterday evening the president , the Vice President , and their task force offered an extensive public briefing on ongoing efforts to combat this new virus, which has spread from china throughout the world. As the director of the c. D. C. Explained, officials are now tracking more than 500 cases across our country. Nationwide, the risk to any individual american remains low. But as the Vice President and the experts reminded us, the time is now for all americans to engage in basic commonsense measures and for americans
Circuit. Lawmakers will also vote to limit debate on Adrian Zuckerman to be u. S. Ambassador to romania. Both votes are expected to happen at 11 30 a. M. Eastern. Youre watching live coverage of the senate on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Listen to our prayers, almighty god. Let not our nation be ashamed. You are our mighty rock and fortress. Lead and guide us, enabling us to honor your name. Protect our lawmakers from the hidden traps that can derail freedom. Remind them that the truth aloe will make us free. Show yourself strong, even to those who strive to save themselves. Manifest your might to all. May our senators trust you, sek your wisdom, and obey your precepts. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and
More problems when it comes to the fire on the ground as well as what firefighters are trying to do to stop it. In the last couple of hours since we have been standing here the wind has started to pickup for the heavily, moving the smoke and ash towards us. From what we have heard from officials that is expected to continue today. They say they think the wind could get up to 70 miles an hour. We are looking at the live video now of the fire. We can see it is burning and huge tell us where you are. We can see there is extensive damage behind you. Or are you in a neighborhood . What was the drive like to where you are and what kind of damage are you seeing . Reporter this is a neighborhood. This home behind me is completely flattened. Across the street there is a house that seems untouched. Behind that there are four or five houses that are flattened and a look a lot like this. There are cars that people just left when they had to evacuate this area as we were driving in you can see a lo
Into another battle with firefighters going up against mother nature. Just like the northbay firefighters, strong wind is a big problem and really whipping up the flames. Ellis and barber is back again in Ventura County. Were trying to get the latest on how the wind is. Whats happening out there . Reporter you can see a little bit, a fire truck just pulled into this neighborhood. They have been driving around and keeping an eye on things here in terms of what the wind is going to do today that remains to be seen. Yesterdays fire officials said they plan to get air support up once the sun came up this morning. They want to try to fight the edges of the fire to keep it out of neighborhoods so more homes dont wind up like this one. The wind is starting to pickup and some say they could, experts and Officials Say they could get up to 70 miles an hour today. That could cause a big problem. We know in the past in fighting these areas in the past couple of days at least two helicopters had co