News source present debate for the state the u. S. Senate candidate perjury or moderators glory fountain and mike ross. Semacodes near point thank you for joining us for debate for the state. Recovering to you live from Alaska Public Media. Im gonsolin. And im Laurie Townsend and we will pose a series of questions to the two major candidates for u. S. Senate. Republican senator dan sullivan and democratic nominee independent doctors al gross who is in the studio and senator sullivan is joining us from away from washington d. C. Welcome to both of r you. As you might have noticed we are having some technical complications with this setup so if you hear a screech every once in a while gross has an earpiece so he can hear what mr. Sullivan has to say. You will notice we are all distanceez in the studio because of the pandemic. We are taking precautions and we feature video questions from rural alaska and one young alaskan. Tune in to Facebook Live immediately after this program for debate
California has performed more than 13 million coronavirus tests. The sevenday and 14day average test Positivity Rate are both 3. 6 . Thats the lowest in a very long time. Optimism is warranted in the bay area. This graph shows the number of cases every day. The yellow line is on the declin good evening. Thank you for joining us. Coronavirus impacts every bay area county but in different ways. In the south bay, private Health Care Providers are being threatened with fines if they dont make coronavirus testing more accessible. Chris has that story now from san jose. With Santa Clara County in the red tier as part of the color code framework for reopening the economy, experts say any improvement theres largely depend on the expansion of covid19 testing throughout the region. It is really foundational to Community Wide safety and foundational to being able to reopen more and get people back to work and back to school. This afternoon, county leaders called on local Health Care Systems to do
Test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 as i described in my testimony, we know that Nursing Homes with a higher proportion of black and latin residents have higher death rates, however theres not universal reporting of the race and ethnicity of those individuals within Nursing Homes who have been affected by covid. That presents for us a significant challenge when it comes to targeting resources in order to prevent the transmission of covid. Because, you know, when covid19 enters a nursing home its because someone has brought it in and what its telling us that if those Nursing Homes are following the same safety procedures of restricts visitors, ensuge that providers have clean ppe every time theyre coming in, then we shouldnt see these disparities. However we do. And the likelihood these disparities in rates of covid infections within Nursing Homes are going to occur are going to be even higher in communities with a higher burden of covid19. And so what were
Gov. Kemp we experienced Severe Weather last night with tornadoes touching down. There are currently 59,000 georgians without power. We have 49 injured, 23 homes that were destroyed, 59 other homes had minor damage, and 248 homes waiting to be assessed. So far we have concerned seven georgians have lost their life to this terrible storm in my thoughts and prayers go out. Given the widespread impact, i have declared a state of emergency this morning for all 159 counties to facilitate the deployment of critically needed resources across our state. Gema, theation with department of Natural Resources, the department of transportation and the georgia 43 commission are all working hard to restore power, clear debris and provide assistance to the families in need. I would ask everyone to continue to keep these individuals as well as their loved ones and those affected by the storms in your thoughts and prayers. We will do our part to help hardworking georgians recover. Atyou know, i got a loo
Back of this thing. Once you crack the back of it, we will be able slowly but surely to get back on her feet. We will see you tomorrow. The Georgia Congress on her will serve as an important relief valve center will serve as an important relief valve for the entire state should we exceed surge capacity. We are going to make sure that facility is in a position to serve georgia. I frankly pray we dont need it, but its going to be able to support you, your family in your time of need. Thank you very much. Governor, some state governors have talked about restart the economy. President trump has also signaled his desire to get things moving by the end of the month. Is georgia ready to enter these discussions . Have you thought about whats next . A lot of people in georgia are thinking about that, especially the people out of work. I know how hard that is. I would tell people right now our focus is on the hospital surge capacity, the ability to test more, because i think we are going to need