Gov. Raimondo this is the best place to get your information. The most uptodate information on the coronavirus here in the state of rhode island. To report very sad and other death in the state of rhode island as a result of coronavirus. Bringing us to a total of 35 losses. Cases for anew total of 1450 cases. We now have 143 people in the hospital. The number of people in a hospital is what we are very focused on now. Tracking how quickly that number doubles and increases. , wepeople in the hospital are at a good clip of increase, which means we are in the rapid spread phase of the virus. That there isume Widespread Community transmission. Quick notes today. I am trying to respond today on the basis of the questions we are getting most frequently at this point in time. The first note i have is around testing. A couple of days ago i announced , rhode rhode island island in partnership with cbs, open a Rapid Testing facility in a parking lot of twin river in lincoln. This is going very w
Ben t should be moving towards napa and American Canyon. Nor showers, novato, marin wood, westward through san mateo, 280. Wet from montera. More showers offshore will continue with that west to east trajectory. Today we have the showers, scattered downpours throughout the first half of the day, a quarter to a third of an inch. Were at 54 right now, mild degrees in oakland. 50 in san jose. Throughout the day well get brighter, we will dry out but to start out through about 1 00 we have the scattered showers, and maybe some heavier downpours at times. Near 60 in our warmest locations. Liz . Well begin with the rapid spread of covid19 in the bay area. Never night the bay area topping at least 1,800 cases. 46 deaths across the region. Almost every bay area county confirmed new cases yesterday. Santa clara county recorded five deaths in a 24hour span, that is the most in a single day since this outbreak started. We are also keeping an eye on cases for viewers in northern neighboring mendoc
Reporter these workers are figuring it out and getting it sam liccardo is impressed by the idth theening newt. What im seeing, finding whatever creative way they can to make things work. Tat the time the only way we can do what we want to do is to understand what the need is. Reporter Governor Newsom says other California Companies are now pitching in during the pandemic. Thats the spirit of california. Thats the spirit of this moment. Take responsibility, take ownership. Reporter some of the refurbished ventilators will go to l. A. , others to hospitals in the bay area. Bloomenergy has a manufacturing plant back east. They are now doing the same thing. Stanford hospital acting as a consultant for the operation. In sunnyvale, cornell bernard, abc 7 news. Many are asking how you can help in this crisis. We have a full running list of what you can donate to hospitals and other ways to get involved, on abc7news. Com. This morning the city of hayward is tightening the cry tearia to get tes
My name is caitlin emma. I am a federal budget and congressional appropriations reporter on capitol hill for politico. Just a quick reminder to you guys here in the audience and those tuning in on the lifestream, tweet your questions with the hashtag statesolutions. I have a circuit here and i will track those and hopefully we will get to one or two at the end of our time today. So i am here with rhode island governor gina raimondo, shes serving in the second term as estates democratic governor and she recently delivered her sixth state of the dress. We have a lot to get to and we definitely want to talk on state policy with the time that we have. But i kinda wanted to start with some news that you made earlier this week regarding 2020. I saw you endorsed Michael Bloomberg for president. Youre the former chair of the democratic governor association. We have a number of candidates to choose from here. I know mayor bloomberg has previously backed your gubernatorial ambitions. But Vice Pr
Tell us what that is. Brandon we are the organization which represents the interests of all Border Patrol agents nationwide. We represent them legally and politically in whatever interests they want us to do. Host how long have you been a Border Patrol agent . Brandon 22 years. Host President Trump is meeting with your group. Can you tell us what the meeting is about . Brandon he is actually going to speak with the spouses and children of our Border Patrol agents talking about what the policies the administration has ouremented to make one, our job safer and two, to make the border more secure for the American Public. Host you have been an agent for 22 years. Under a lot of administrations. Give us your sense of how things are under the Trump Administration. Brandon if you look at the past administration, we felt greatly demoralized. We were not necessarily due to policies by the agency, we were not necessarily allowed to do our job. And when that happens, we do not feel everybody want