3,600 confirmed cases of covid 19 in the bay area. A third of those are in hard hit Santa Clara County. The bay area is expected to reach its peak later this month, but will we building be ready . They are predicting we would not have shortages in regular or icu beds even at the peak. Reporter professor tara dion says early shelter in place orders may save californias Healthcare System from running out of beds, but cautions the system will still be under enormous strain. There is an issue of where those beds are and are they in the right place . So as a whole across the state, i think we probably have enough icu beds. The question is are they in the places where well have the patients coming in . Reporter shifting beds, equipment or patients around the state the professor says will be a huge logistical and administrative challenge and while the state has done what it can to slow the spread of the disease and flatten the curve, there may still be shortages looming of ventilators and oth
In europe in this early hour, this has been our focus all week as concerns about the brexit rose. Weve been looking at weakness in european stocks. You can see in early trading that most of these shares are up by 1 . Dax up by 1 . Ftse up close to that. Take a look at crude prices. Crude under pressure once again and again this morning. Wti is below 48 a barrel. Sitting at 47. 95. Brent sitting at 49. 12. Lets get you through the big stories were watching today, it is another day and yet another survey on the brexit survey. Coming from comres showing that the poll remain leads, in favor of the uk staying in the eu which is recovery from 55 reported yesterday. On some of the polls, by the way, the margin of error, on some of these, is looking like 10 . Hard to make a judgment whats going on. On the economic front, prices expected to rise. 3 . The fed announces its decision as we said 2 00 p. M. Eastern time. I laugh, because we know what the decision will be. And we will look for, as jo
Have been since released. First confirmed case of the d68, also a child from north jersey was reported back on september 17th. Officials are waiting for test results to see if a four yearold Mercer County student who died last week from a possible respiratory illness did in fact have enter o virus d68. A shooting at a high school in kentucky, one student was injured, at firm creek Traditional High School in louisville. Students held their hand over their heads as they were evacuated from the school and taken to the softball field. Police say it happened touring an argument, suspect put down his gun and walk in the principals office. Authorities identify Police Officers involved in the shooting while offduty in edge water park, burlington county. Investigators say that delanco officer basil warren shot a suspect who tried to steel his truck at his home on stevenson avenue this morning. The the the suspect is identified as tajuan fitzpatrick of willingboro. Fitzpatrick tried to run over
This male continued to shoot. Reporter shooter fled but police apprehended the suspect. Fortunately these numerous witness december cooperate with police not only telling us a good description to apprehend this individual but also positively identifying, our suspect. Reporter were told suspect was already wantedded on a warrant. We do believe was the the intended target. We believe that the shooter, knew this 17 yearold female prior to shooting her. Reporter teen is being treated at st. Christophers hospital, and she is being treated for a gun the shot wound, and subsequently a broken arm. Now the man she was sitting with, was not hurt, so far no word on the motive for this shooting. We are hes live at police headquarters, Syma Chowdhry for cbs3 Eyewitness News. Also new this morning Fire Fighters in north philadelphia, rushed to the scene of a Historic School building fire. The flames broke out around 1 00 in the old simon mayer street at germantown and allegheny avenue. The fire was