When lifeguards then countered about 40,000 people on the beach that of course is raising some concerns of a potential spike in covid19 cases across california, the number of covid19 cases is nearing 43,000 the state also has nearly 1700 deaths, the bay area has close to 7300 cases and more than 250 deaths people in San Francisco are also out and about today taking in the nice weather a lot of people packs local parks to try to get some sun or enjoy a picnic but. Crews are also out there trying to make sure people are following shelter in place rules by maintaining a safe social distance for santorum live in the city tonight, he joins us with more on what he saw when he was out and about dan. Mccann is not as fun as got much cooler out here but earlier today it was the type of day that youd want to be out at the park lots of people packing the city parks here in San Francisco, but many of them were not Wearing Masks or spreading out like they should be. At first glance its another suns
26th, im Marty Gonzales and im Robin Winston. Doctor fauci statement comes as the world had a grim milestone yesterday over 200,000 coronavirus related deaths. Now right now there are more than 2 million confirmed cases globally more than 827,000 people have recovered. According to Johns Hopkins university, researchers there are over 40 to 42,000 cases right here in california, 1600 people have died with over 800 of those deaths in los angeles. Here in the bay area there are more than 7300 cases on your screen now is a breakdown of those cases and doused by county. Santa clara county remains the hardest hit with over 2000 cases, 99 people have died there from the virus followed by Alameda County which has over 1400 cases and 52 deaths and we have a complete breakdown of the number of cases by county and city listen online at kron 4 dot com. Now to the north bay this morning, 16 people at the windsor vote Windsor Vallejo care center have tested positive. Officials in windsor say theyre
That if government aid doesnt reach their small and midsized farms soon, it will make it nearly impossible for american farming to stay in the family. Its just hard, because ticking i worry about them all the time. Your good cholesterol is nice and high. Elizabeth ellis is a Nurse Practitioner. Come on. When we met her, she was tearing around her east texas farm with her fourlegged side arm named pistol. Social distancing is built into the landscape here and enforced by barbed wire, but the pandemic has reached elliss sparsely populated county, too. Im so sorry. And she finds herself administering covid tests ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im Sharyn Alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking this portion of 60 minutes is sponsored by progressive insurance. Save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. Visit progressive. Com. Scott pelley as may begins, millions of americans delete another month of calendar events
With questions from carolyn maloney. I want to ask about testing. Why being asked over again the United States is so far behind other countries and why the American People cannot get tested. Our first case of coronavirus was on january 21. The u. S. Has tested 4900 people. In contrast, south korea has tested almost 200,000 people. They can test 15,000 people a day. South korea contest more people in one day then we tested over the past two months. So, dr. Fauci, why are we so far behind korea in testing and reporting this crisis . Dont like to pass the buck. Numbers. Eld has the i dont have that in front of me. Is the worst yet to come . Yes, it is. Can you elaborate . When ever you have an outbreak where you can stop seeing Community Spread, and you dont know when the index case is and how you can approach it is my contact tracing, when you have enough of that, it becomes a situation where you will not be able to effectively and efficiently contain it. Whenever you look at the history
Government and the promises they once made to resemble has more now from the time of the mess in venezuela. Has always lived beside the lake of monaco you will in the northwestern state. Hes a fisherman but he says pollution from the oil industry is destroying his way of life. This is abandon completely abandoned in the past the oil and gas installations were taken care of but not anymore now are lake is filled with oil and contamination our boats are dirty or nets are dirty my family depends on this and its killing us were close to the town where oil was 1st discovered in venezuela in 1922 it turned this country from Michael Cohen coffee producing nation into an oil giant but things have not been going well in the past 2 years the bottom of the lake of what i was filled with thousands of kilometers of Gas Pipelines some of them are broken if you can see right there thats a leak i guess week this is just an example of the enormous infrastructure problems that Venezuelas Energy sectors