Gov. Edwards how are you doing today . Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. This press conference is going to serve as a briefing both on the Severe Weather experienced across louisiana yesterday and also my Daily Briefing on covid19. I want to thank all of our local officials that have joined us today. Mayore mayor jamie mayo, mitchell and other elected officials including senators Katrina Jackson and senator j kathy and senator stewart and representative ackles. We also have representative jones, i think. We do. Right there. Good to see you. Can hear from you congressman Ralph Abraham and we also have here today with us as i have had every day in baton rouge, the doctor from the department of health you can answer specific questions related to covid19 testing. And other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed in this parish though the main one was an ef to that had win
Gov. Edwards how are you doing today . Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for being here. This press conference is going to serve as a briefing both on the Severe Weather experienced across louisiana yesterday and also my Daily Briefing on covid19. I want to thank all of our local officials that have joined us today. Mayore mayor jamie mayo, mitchell and other elected officials including senators Katrina Jackson and senator j kathy and senator stewart and representative ackles. We also have representative jones, i think. We do. Right there. Good to see you. Can hear from you congressman Ralph Abraham and we also have here today with us as i have had every day in baton rouge, the doctor from the department of health you can answer specific questions related to covid19 testing. And other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed in this parish though the main one was an ef to that had win
Gov. Bel edwards good afternoon. Thank you for being here. This will serve as the briefing on the Severe Weather that was and mynced yesterday Daily Briefing on covid19. Local to thank all of the officials who joined us today. I know we have mayor Stacy Albritton mitchell and other elected officials including senator katrina jackson, senator jay morris, representative mike echols. We also have representative jones, i think. We do, right there. It is good to see you, fred. After i speak you will hear from congressman ralph abraham. We also have with us, as i have aen every day in baton rouge, doctor from the department of health and he can answer specific questions when it comes to covid19 testing and other things related to the coronavirus. We just completed a tour of some of the tornado damage across north louisiana. Tornadoese two confirmed. Thatain one was an ef to had a wind speed up to 120 miles per hour. I want to thank everyone for wearing a mask. It is critically important you
There. Reporter on thursday, the first person from Contra Costa County died from the coronavirus good this person was in her 70s and had a pre existing medical condition. The author recently traveled to europe. The Health Officer wouldnt release more details than that. We do expect the numbers of cases and dust to go up before they start to go down. Reporter contra costa Health Officer said there are 42 cases of coronavirus in the company and they are expanding tests every single day. He says they are preparing a hold order to prepare positive and negative test to be reported. At that point, we will have better information about the total number of testing that is going on. Reporter right now, most testing is being done in private labs. The countys Public Health lab is performing about 4100 tests a day but that is a small fraction of the total number of tests being done. Weeks ago, the county also started identifying available ventilators and reporting out to the state and federal gove
Athian way. Ktvu Jana Katsuyama is live at the scene where their residents and family received a briefing today. Jana . Reporter julie, you can see behind me the fencing and these keep out signs. Just on the other side of the fence it drops down the hill. What happens about three weeks ago the concrete started to buckle and then gave way. Collapsing down the way. You can see all of this debris and the light post that came down leaving a big mess and a lot of concerns about what could happen next. They blocked off what used to be a road and parking lot, but heavy rains have washed away the hillside behind the Bay Park Retirement Community in pinole. A massive collapse that has crept up to the edge of the building, which houses some 80 seniors. Nearby homeowners are concerned about the danger of more erosion. I just walked up here to see how it might affect my house. I live just a couple of blocks away. Reporter the problem started three weeks ago. One resident Steven Harris took these p