Happened . That is pretty warm, not as one, fog back, big impacts tomorrow and friday and saturday. , a lot of red on that map we will look forward to that more cooler weather, bill, thanks, soon of it. In san jose, the heat is prompting officials to open cooling centers despite the coronavirus, our reporters as he kerry has more now on the ways that people are trying to help those who are need. By midday wednesday, the mercury was well into its latest assault on the record books, 90 degrees with listerine son, singh volunteers delivering water and other items to a homeless encampment on story road. Is actually dangerous because you know first of all, the homeless die of exposure, cold nights, hot days, so you are talking about something almost apocalyptic. For the third consecutive day a searing heat, blankets the bay area, weather forecasters say that the source is hundreds of miles to our south. Have hot air leaking off from that great desert, southwest, places like phoenix and tucs
Part of how we did develop strategies going forward. We are grateful to the public and private labs and Healthcare Partners that have allowed us to dramatically increase our output. State lab, to the there are 25 public and private labs testing in massachusetts. 76,400 29 patients have been tested with nearly 4500 new tests reported in the previous 24 hours. We are making a lot of progress, but we know that there is much more to do. Visited a newwe drivethrough testing facility for First Responders at patriot place. As we continue to talk to partners at the local level across the state, we will continue to add more of these in all parts of massachusetts. Earlier today, we announced a new Rapid Testing site, which will enable on the spot testing and results at no additional costs. We anticipate being able to test 1000 people a day and received the site the results on site within minutes. People will know if they are positive for coronavirus and take action to seek the proper treatment.
Support the Health Care Workers keeping us all safe. With respect to testing, we have been working aggressively to expand capacity in the commonwealth and we are continuing to ramp up our efforts. Massachusetts is one of the largest testers in the country. Testing is going to be a huge part of how we develop strategies to deal with this virus going forward. We are grateful to the public and private labs and Healthcare Partners that have allowed us to dramatically increase our Testing Capacity and output. In addition to the state lab, there are 25 public and private labs testing in massachusetts. 76,429 patients have been tested with nearly 4500 new tests reported in the previous 24 hours. We are making a lot of progress, but we know that there is much more to do. This weekend, we visited a new drivethrough testing facility for First Responders at patriot place. As we continue to talk to partners at the local level across the state, we will continue to add more of these in all parts of
Slumping and Global Growth concerns back in the headlines, as chinas Economic Data comes in weaker. Joining us for the entire hour, final hour of trade is keith bliss, managing partner and ceo of iq capital usa. Keith, welcome thank you very much you and i were just chatting about the fact that you were noting that youre kind of surprised that the stock market isnt down even worse. I think its really resilient and speaks to the trend weve been seeing throughout the last 30 days for sure and ive been a big believer that well continue to trend higher throughout the rest of the year but think of Something Like this that happened 45 years ago, when we did have real supply concerns and the kingdom of saudi arabia was the big player in the market now its much more dispersed we were not a big player. At all. For a variety of reasons i am grateful and pleased at the resilience of the equity market on news like this today. Even some energyimporting nations like china, for example, you didnt see
That occurred last year, is occurring again this year and will continue to occur next year. Each year is getting worse than the previous. In my home, we will see approximately 800 drugrelated deaths in 2017, which is an increase from our most devastating year, last year, 2016, when we saw approximately 660 people die from drugrelated deaths, up from 370 the year before. Nearly 9 to of these deaths will be due to opioids of some kind. Prescribed pills from which the crisis originated and grew from, heroin, fentanyl, and now the newer analogs of fentanyl. Its nationwide Public Health emergency which is simply out of control. Ohio is one of the hardesthit states. Appalachia, the New England States are also particularly hardhit. In the fall of 2011, my office alerted our county executive to an alarming trend and the rise of heroinassociated deaths. In the subsequent months and years weve partnered with our county sheriff, Cleveland Police department, u. S. Attorneys office, county prosecut