Reporter weve heard plenty of stories from other countries about healthcare workers, police officers, firefighters all getting sick while taking care of covid19 patients themselves and bringing that home. Mayor london breed wants to stop the cycle and find a place fur healthcare workers and frontline workers to live while they fight this disease. While hospitals, doctors, and nurses ramp up fur the anticipated patient sick with covid19, they are trying to figure out where to house the essential healthcare workers. We dont want healthcare workers who are on the front lines to go home and potentially infect others or be infected in their communities and not be able to work. We are standing up hotels fur them as well. Reporter hotels which have seen occupancy rates plummet as tourism evaporates from shelter in place orders, they may have new guests. Healthcare providers. They are trying to procure those rooms in addition to 3500 rooms that have been set aside to isolate patients who may c
Grant lotus indeed it is and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us tonight governor newsome says that hes confident. The residents will abide by the order and that social pressure well encourage people to do the right thing, lets hope so the statewide shelter at home order is a directive. Many counties have of course already been following weve been doing in most of the bay area since monday night. Grocery stores statewide will remain open essential supplies will still be available per for people who need them food can be picked up take out style and restaurants. Kids can play outside, although youll see more and more playgrounds closing weve already seen that here in the bay. We have learned tonight that the National Guard will be delivering medical and other necessary supplies to make up for lost volunteers and anxiety issues that people are having folks some of them, especially if youre older or have existing issues just do not want to go outside do not want to go to the Grocery S
State wide order for people to stay at home. Statewide order is in effect tonight for everyone in california to stay at home except for essential jobs and services such as Grocery Stores pharmacies and banks, thank you for joining us tonight at 10 i pale more im ken wayne. The governor issued the order in a News Conference earlier tonight, he says the goal is to brand the spread of the coronavirus pie encouraging social distance and that is what we are doing here at kron 4 can and i are on opposite areas of the studio our grant lotus standing by on the other side of the room and look where our chief meteorologist us tonight. Lawrence karnow is bringing us the tenet and forecast from his home. The coronavirus has made the governor make this order the governors order comes after he issued a sobering warning that 56 of californias population are 25. 5 Million People will likely become infected with a virus over the course of a 2 month period. He made that projection in this letter sent to
Saying the u. S. Lacks domestic stock. Noting they are hard to restock in a Global Pandemic because they are manufactured overseas. After the 2009 h 1 n 1 pandemic, we did clear calculations and realized that we would need to buy billions of masks. The head of the cdc until 2017 says that they were aware of problems and that the agency warned the government several times since 2010 and this report in october was not the only recent warning. A warning about the u. S. Vulnerability in 2018 and 2019. This comes as richard burr comes under fire for downplaying the coronavirus despite the stark warning from friends two weeks before the u. S. Started to take steps to contain the outbreak. It is much more aggressive than anything we have seen in history and more akin to the 1918 pandemic. Who knew months later we would be dealing with it. The Trump Administration said they issued a executive order in response to that study. This is important reporting. It shouldnt stop here. It should continu
Upper 50s. Well get one completely dry day in this weekend before more rain is on the way. Reggie . All right, thank you so much. Governor newsom made an extraordinary move last night when he told all beds for coronavirus hospitals. Jobina has more on that. Californias fight against the coronavirus is keeping Seton Medical Center in daly city open. The hospital recently made headlines about its imminent closure but now Governor Newsom says it will undergo a multimillion dollar project to get ready for patients. 177 hospital beds will be designated, excuse me, for covid19 patients at seton. The state is also planning to transform dorms to house patients. The governor is asking the federal government to ready field hospitals and bring a Navy Hospital ship to los angeles. If nothing number of californians sickened would overwhelm our health care system. An attack rate of about 56 . That the virus will impact about 56 of us. You do the math in the state of california, thats a particularly