From over. In fact, its only beginning. We have learned that within the past 24 hours, there was a 105 increase in patients admitted to the icu. During that same time period, a nearly 40 jump in hospitalizations. That is fueling a push tonight to get even more medical equipment into the state. And all of that coming as the u. S. Reaches a very grim milestone. More than 2,000 people have now died in the u. S. From coronavirus. Just thursday, there were 1,000 deaths. A startling jump in just two days. Lets begin our Team Coverage with nbc bay areas marianne favro. Governor newsom toured a south bay company and theres a new plan that could help a lot of people. Reporter thats right, terry. Before coronavirus, bloom energy was making fuel cells. But now employees have switched gears entirely, and they are now refurbishing ventilators. Now, dozens of those ventilators are on their way to hospitals across the state. Governor gavin newsom says with covid19 sending more californians into inten
Well, i definitely miss you guys. Since we have a little bit of cabin fever let me show you a different view outside the windows. The south bay, peninsula, trivalley. Lets get right to those views outside in case maybe youve been seeing your view too much. Enjoy it. Soak it all in. The clouds make for a beautiful sight. Look at the south bay, 50 degrees. We do have the showers sweeping through the peninsula, 45, very cool, comfortable. The trivalley, 48. In the east bay check out the cloud cover. 53 degrees. San francisco a little bit of shower activity as well as areas in the north bay. A chance of showers because of all of this instability still. Its not going to be a very powerful storm. Its the remnants of that system you saw pushing through yesterday. That will continue to make its exit out and we should see good clearing by this evening. Overall i will take you through a look at your temperatures and the dry trend ahead. For now, kira, back to you. All right. We look forward to s
It. Should. Be costly. To. G. W. Californias landmark give economy law goes into effect put it all shred big changes for tech firms like hoover and what expense for freelancers some of whom say theyre already losing clients. Also on the show french workers are up in arms over Pension Reforms for young tech entrepreneurs in the country is doing right by them. And well talk to american author Jeremy Rifkin who argues the u. S. Needs to massively overhaul its economy to become greener. This is your Business Report im stephen bears in berlin its good to have you with us california both one of the Worlds Largest economies raking close to the u. K. In total annual output or g. D. P. Thats what multinational firms pay close attention to regulations in the state and thats why the world is watching californias new gig economy law which went into effect wednesday the measure aims to protect freelance and contract workers by requiring many to be reclassified as employees but theres a lot of contr
Cheers for keeping this toilet open 24 hours. Since the city started, the three month round the clock test, theyve recorded more than 10,000 nighttime flushes. The pilot has shown great results. The director of pubic works says its been worth the money. While people tell us that the streets around the bathrooms are cleaner. I love it. Reporter its also true that the number of complaints about feces on the sidewalk have continued to rise. 25,000 so far this year. And that stench is horrible. My clothes steek. Reporter ann lives around the corner from one of the toilets. She says it helps. Not enough, but its better. Reporter there are a couple dozen public toilets around the city, only three staying open 24 hours. Supervisor haney is pushing them all to be open around the clock. Lets open those bathrooms up 24 hours. Reporter if you crunch the numbers, it will cost about 8. 2 million a year to keep all those 25 bathrooms open for 24 hours a day. By comparison, it costs the city about 7.
To the program nowadays it takes just one tweet anger is mounting in china over a comment by the general manager of basketballs Houston Rockets he openly supported the prodemocracy protests in hong kong but china and its hundreds of millions of sports fans is a highly important market to the leak and its corporate sponsors so after just one tweet damage control is now in full swing. We apologize we love china Houston Rockets n. B. A. Star james harden distancing himself from the words of his teams general manager and on monday morning daryl morey tweeted his regret saying he had not intended to cause offense among the clubs chinese fans and that he was merely voicing a thought based on one interpretation of one complicated event humble words that show the importance of chinese money to the n. B. A. But they came too late to prevent sponsors like the Sportswear Company leaning and shanghai based s. P. D. Bank from cutting ties with the rockets chinas state broadcaster has announced it w