On friday, President Trump declared a National Emergency to deal with the coronavirus. Members of the White House Coronavirus task force and Industry Leaders joined the president for the press conference in the rose garden. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States accompanied by the Vice President of the United States. Trump thank you very much, everyone. Thank you. Beautiful day in the rose garden, appreciate everybody being here. Today, i would like to provide an update to the American People on several decisive new actions we are taking in our very vigilant effort to combat and ultimately defeat the coronavirus, weve been working very hard on this. We have made tremendous progress. When you compare what we have done to other areas of the world, its pretty incredible. Thet of that had to do with early designation and the closing of the borders. As you know, europe was just designated as the hotspot right now and we closed that border it a while ago. So, that was lucky
District, and the Palo Alto School district. These and others will be closed for the next several weeks. A complete list of district closures can be found on our website. We are also banning gatherings of 35 to 100 people unless organizers implement five specific measures to reduce the risk of covid19 transmission. Such as preventing anyone who is sick with a fever or respiratory system from attending. And ensuring that those who are at higher risk for serious illness do not attend. Thats the new emergency order from the Santa Clara County Health Department. It banned gatherings as small as 35. The lowest in the bay area. And it takes effect as midnight. Were seeing more evidence of people panicshopping. This was the scene at costco in concord. Shoppers were limited to one package of toilet paper, one package of paper toums and bottled war per cart holder. Tom vacar spoke to students and officials within the Oakland School district about the unprecedented closure. Reporter this is linc
Schools to close also restrictions on travel to the us senate shortage of supplies in stores, nationwide. Kron 4 news at 5 starts right no thank you for joining us tonight at 5 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis as the coronavirus pandemic grows the president declares a National Emergency House Speaker nancy pelosi announced a deal with the Trump Administration. On corona virus funding and here in the bay area both santa clara and San Francisco counties. Our further restricting large gatherings. We begin tonight with kron fours dan kerman who joins us live in the newsroom with the breakdown on the president s announcement dan thats right. Buses today declaring a National Emergency said going to have more testing that they make partnerships with the private industry also talked about the possibility of him getting a test for coronavirus. To unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort today i am officially declaring a National Emergency. Surrounded by feder
And welcome back this afternoon President Trump addressed the nation from the white house wrote this garden declare a National State of emergency joe khaleel reports now from washington with how the trump administration. Its trying to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. And i am officially declaring a National Emergency President Trump officially declared the spread of the coronavirus a National Emergency friday in further and so the order emerging every state to set up Emergency Operation centers Effective Immediately his announcement opens up about 50 billion in emergency funding for states and agencies like the centers for Disease Control to help slow the virus can also help states be more nimble with programs like medicaid and provides Disaster Relief funding for states that need it to unleash the full power of the federal government to this effort when the president and his Task Force Spearhead the effort from here at the white house lawmakers on capitol hill are finalizing a deal fo
This country to activate its Emergency Preparedness plan so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged but the president refused to accept the crisis is know much greater because testing wasnt more widely available no i dont take responsibility at all because we were given a. Set of circumstances and we were given rules regulations and specifications from a different time wasnt meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that were talking about. The trumpet ministration is planning to introduce drive through testing there will be a website to tell people if they need the test and we have to get it whats missing is when these new measures will kick in the governments top expert says he hopes these steps will shorten the epidemic speaker what you seen now with this order is that were going to be able to remove the constraints so that people at the state the local level the individual physician all the way up through the federal govern