With almost 3 million confirmed cases. In the u. S. , there are about 938,000 cases with more than 52,000 deaths. California ranks fourth in the u. S. With 42,000 cases and almost 1700 deaths. There was seven additional deaths recorded in the bay area today with roughly 7000 cases now. Dr. Anthony fauci said today that he believes the United States could double its coronavirus testing over the next two weeks. He says ramping up testing will only help with the stepbystep effort to reopen the country. The country is currently completing between 1. 5 million and 2 million tests per week. Whatever is coming, its getting a bit more difficult for some people to stay home. Outdoor areas around the bay area are seeing a surge in activity and officials are doing their best to accommodate the crowds. Ktvus greg liggins joins us with some of the problems today. Greg . Reporter yeah, andre. After four days of being stuck indoors, for a lot of people, its being a lot more difficult staying inside w
Draft order to summarize the pro and cons discussed on each side over the last four days. They plan to use this in further talks because theres still a lot left to go over. The board focused on if the Dakota Access pipeline would promote public convenience and necessity. That meant looking at economic and environmental impacts. I agree they all have inherent risks, and i think when you look at what is planned for construction, those risks have been taken into account. Rose but throughout the 3hour meeting, Board Members showed they still have some questions left. Such as on certain issues like energy reliance. Those are the two views which comes first . Rose the pipeline would carry up to 570,000 barrels a day from the Bakken Oil Fields in north dakota to illinois. Members of iowa citizens for Community Improvement have protested the pipeline. They say theyre frustrated with the process. I think the past 4 days have indicated that this process is broken and isnt working for , iowans so
Janet petersen. Shes one voice pleading with the public to step forward and stop the to managed care. 47 28 deborah ann turner, md ive been a provider for a long time in iowa. Doctor deborah ann oncologist, said changing an entire iowa medicaid to one of these private outof state companies can set people back years in care, and turner 49 11 when you have to lose your provider, or case manager, or change the medical system you dont understand how devastating it is to both the participant and also to the providers. The Senate Passed a bill to stop medicaid. And now representative in the house wants to do the art staed 59 36 lets protect the most then nobody loses the now. Staed says his efforts to the house floor for debate. 59 58 i filed a bill more than a week ago to do the same thing the senate has, that hasnt been taken up, thats amanda governor amanda governor branstad is holding out that his plan to change over medicaid will work. And hes moving full steam ahead, his office saying
Opinion over nominating a replacement. Sabrina candidates the debate stage with just five days left until carolina primary. Local 5 news midday in hd starts now. We are iowa sabrina good morning and thanks for joining us for midday. Im sabrina today there was a fatal morning. It happened just a semi truck northbound on i35 jackknifed. Killing the driver of the semi. Officials have confirmed that it was a single occupant accident, traffic had to be 56 to highway 28 at martensdale to get into the traffic resumed around 6 45 this morning. Sabrina shooting up in sunday evening. The 100 block of at around 8 pm two people were the victim was air lifted to the des moines hospital. The suspect was taken to a hospital in fort dodge. The names of the victim and the suspect are not being released at the time, pending further investigation. Sabrina new this morning, a snowmobile accident leaves one man seriously injured sunday. Sabrina the man had been part of group snowmobiling west of boone sund
Freezing, which means we are looking at some good snow melt today. Highs will climb into the upper 30s and then lows tonight will fall down to a low near 30. A system is going to pass through the state tonight into tomorrow morning and should bring us a wide range of precipitation. Well start out with a pretty good amount of rain overnight and as we go towards tomorrow morning some of that rain will turn into freezing rain. Temperatures will bottom out by tomorrow morning and well see a very wet snow with around 1 to 2 inches of accumulation possible. Highs tomorrow will stay above freezing in the afternoon and then cool back down into the mid 20s that night. Warmer air will return rapidly starting on thursday with highs in the low 50s and they will likely stick around through saturday elias lets get into the elias Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died. The 79yearold passed away in his sleep during a hunting trip in texas. Justice scalia was appointed by president Ronald Reagan