Honestly, its terrible for all the families, but the people on the ship. The emergency unfolding off the coast of florida with local families caught right in the middle. And can hospitals handle the surge . Eyeopening numbers from hardhit Santa Clara County. How many beds are currently available as cases continue to climb in the south bay. Good thursday evening. Thanks for joining us. Im janelle wang in the studios. And im Jessica Aguirre in the newsroom. We begin with a change in direction from Health Officials tonight. Bay area Health Experts now say everyone should use some sort of face cover when you go out in public. A change they say will help prevent Community Spread of the coronavirus. Nbc bay areas jean elle is live in San Francisco with more on this new directive. Jean . Reporter janelle and jessica, Health Officials say there are lots of people who have coronavirus but they dont know it because they dont have symptoms. So now having everyone wear a mask or a face cover will
A surprise move that could lead to an alliance with Benjamin Netanyahu. And of the un secretary general has told leaders of the worlds 20 major industrialized countries that humanity is at war with a virus and we are not winning when youve got terrorists called for a Global Response at an emergency virtual g. 20 summits to plot a way out of the crisis where a leader is valid to do whatever it takes to combat coronavirus so he set the numbers of confirmed cases which have now passed half a 1000000 are only the tip of the iceberg and the real number is believed to be many times higher well the number of new deaths has surged in spain and remains high in italy where its feared deaths are now rising in the poorest south and as economists predict a deep global recession the u. S. Saw 3300000 people make new jobless claims last week its biggest ever jump weve barker begins our coverage with this report on the situation across europe. This is how spain is hoping to win the war of the Coronavi
Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time
Trying to find out a way of funding if we spread it out too thinly, but which could support advertising if our board approves. In the short run, we are making sure that we are eliminating driver renewal fees for the extent of the Health Emergency. Drivers can continue working out on the street without paying their renewal fees while were in this Health Emergency. Its the least that we can do in order to support our operators. Were also thinking about if we can waive the taxi fees for the next two fiscal years, given the huge impacts being felt by our taxi operators. Those are things under discussion outside of our budget but which we would likely do. Im going to shift my bicycle gear and move on and talk a little bit about the Golden State Warriors. During this last fiscal year the chase arena was open and we were successful in that opening because this agency partnered with the Golden State Warriors and provided excellent transit and Parking Management and curb management. One of the
Let that sink in for a moment. 16 just this week were not even done. President trump announcing a travel ban on all nonu. S. Citizens coming in from europe were awaiting details on a stimulus plan or domestic response to ensure containment mitigation and increased testing capabilities right here in the u. S. Were talking to three ceos today. Group one auto, redfin and verizon ceo about how these companies are dealing with the fall out and what the impact of this virus will be on the overall economy. Lets get right to our reporters covering the story for us rick ismonitoring the action i the bond action. We begin with steve on the phone with the latest on this move by the fed. Its been about an hour for markets to digest it people are still trying to figure it all out here it looks like the Federal Reserve is going to do a series of masds ifr operations to put it this way, it will be a trillion dollars a week in the following ways a half a trillion dollars was done at 1 30 today a half