County will join the rest of the bay area on friday as the bay area begins the next step there are still more than 11,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 390 deaths here are the latest numbers broken down by county, sam, a tail San Francisco, marin sonoma and napa counties have all reported new cases today, but no new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours. For a complete list of local covid19 cases head over to our website kron 4 dot com at least for now most bay area jurisdictions will follow the same guidelines in terms of slowly winding down the stay at home orders and reopening the economy the last area holdout on opening the door to face to Santa Clara County. But word on that changed today kron fours justine waltman live in our newsroom right now with more just a. While panels of the countys move forward Santa Clara County Health Officials said that there were no plans to ease restrictions but that changed today. And it will now allow Small Retail Stores to offer Curbsid
Briefing but we are keeping an eye on the governors movements today. Lets start in the bay area. Another county moving into phase two of the gavin newsom road to recovery. Contra costa county loosening up earlier restriction rules and is paid Business Owners could not be more excited and we go to ktvu Sara Zendehnam for details. Took a while to get here. Moving into phase two gets Contra Costa County one step closer to feeling somewhat normal again. At 6 00 a. M. The lucent shelter in place orders went into effect. A few hours later the protect you and Body Piercing and walnut creek open for Curbside Pickup zebra can only sell jewelry and the like for now. It is a step in the right direction. We are having limited staff, obviously. But slowly, we bring more employees back on. Hopefully opening up our perky location. Part of the counties entering the first part of phase two. Reporter businesses can offer Curbside Pickup. Manufacturers can also reopen with strict guidelines being in plac
House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy also met with the two membersected republican , and held a News Conference with them to discuss the Coronavirus Response and other legislative topics. This is half an hour. Members hi, guys, how are you today . Good to see you. Rep. Mccarthy we ready . [inaudible] is thank you for joining us today. As we managed to go through the last couple of months, it has been some of the Biggest Challenges this country has had. The number of deaths and others. If you look in the last week, the improvement when it comes to testing, or than 2. 2 million tests in the last seven days. I am hearing governors talk capabilities capabilities and t taking 100 of the opportunities. During this crisis we had two special elections. Today i have two special guests. One in wisconsin, tom tiffany, and one in california, mike rcf mike garcia. Most have a good indication of what november will feel like. Took a democrat sea and more than 22 years, since 1998. This district of de
Testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee about the epas role during the coronavirus pandemic. And two 30, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee holds a confirmation hearing for the Deputy Energy secretary and on cspan two, the centered senate is back at 10 00 a. M. Eastern to consider judicial nominations. As of this morning, about a quarter of the debts are in new york city area, the new york area has been the hardest hit region of the country by this virus. Four v. A. Centers have 26260 debts, but the other deaths are spread out across 110 different v. A. Facilities. This is all over the country. Everyone has been touched by this in some way. Some places it is just two deaths, other places, philadelphia has been hit hard, new orleans has been hit hard, chicago has had around 60 deaths so this is not a regional problem, this is not just one area that has been hit. It is really a nationwide issu if you look at the overall numbers, and these have pr
And residents in ukraines capital are told to stay indoors as wildfires near to a noble cause pollution levels to soar. Hello africa has so far escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic but the United Nations warns that wont last long it says that at least 300000 people will die when the virus takes hold there unless hundreds of billions of dollars are spent the World Health Organization says the situation there is probably worse than faults in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own going to. And a 60 percent increase in the number of reported does. With the current challenge of obtaining testing kits its likely that the real numbers are higher than reported fewer than 20000 cases have been reported across the continent to date but the World Health Organization is concerned there could be 10000000 the next 3 to 6 months nearly 27000000 people could be pushed into extreme poverty by the outbreak thats the warning from the Uns Eco