Good monday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. The United States has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in the world trailing only china and italy. The death toll in the u. S. Now tops 400 people and thats forcing more drastic measures. At least 11 states have now agreed to shut down all nonessential business. President trump has authorized the National Guard to respond in three states with the most cases and he says large shipments of medical supplies and respirators will arrive in the coming days. On capitol hill, growing frustration overnight after the senate failed to pass a 2 trillion economic stimulus package. Talks resumed this morning but wall street is not happy. The markets fell sharply overnight. Meanwhile scientists are now studying at least 69 drugs in the search for a possible treatment for the virus. Abcs in epte ornhtreside trump announcing the National Guard will be deployed to the three states hit the hardest by the coronavirus outbreak, new york,
Good monday morning, everyone. We are starting off the week seeing a dramatic increase in the number of coronavirus cases overnight. More than 2,500 people have now died in the u. S. And President Trump says the peak is still weeks away. The president has now extended the guidelines for social distancing until april 30th. Dr. Anthony fauci says up to 200,000 americans could die. The fda has approved a new test for the virus that promises results in just five minutes. President trump says avid labs will ship 50,000 tests per day. Worldwide more than 34,000 people have now died. Moscow is the latest major city to impose a virtual lockdown. We begin our coverage this morning here at home with abcs. More than 2,0 at. St aounced out o a ste reprerf cases d talities with more than 30,000 cases and nearly 1,000 people dead across the state. The citys Javits Center transformed into a medical facility ready monday with 3,000 beds to receive patients not suffering from the virus, relieving hospi
And former Vice President joe biden getting tighter. The abc News Washington post survey of registered voters is a virtual dead heat with biden favored by 49 , trump by 47 . Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 30th. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We do begin with help on the way for new york city. The u. S. Navy hospital ship comfort is set to arrive today in new york harbor equipped with 1,000 beds and a full medical staff. It will be used for noncovid19 patients to free up space in overwhelmed hospitals. The Javits Center in manhattan is opening its doors today with 3,000 beds on hand. In california the Los Angeles Convention center also serving as an overflow hospital as President Trump pushes back the deadline for social distancing. Abcs rachel scott has more. Reporter President Trump, who had hoped to get things back to normal by easter, now extending the voluntary National Guidelines until april 30th. Nothing would be worse than declaring vi
Hospitals across the country expect to run out of beds within the next 2 weeks. Well there are over 722,000 cases worldwide and nearly 34,000 deaths here in the us we have more than a 142,000 cases in over 2400 deaths. The state of california we currently have more than 6200 cases and a 100 and 30 deaths so far. Now right here at home in the bay area there are nearly 1900 coronavirus cases, Santa Clara County has the most with 646 cases in 25 deaths so far San Francisco county. Theyve seen 340 cases with 5 deaths along the peninsula, San Mateo County euro 277 cases with 6 tests. Alameda county has 240 cases, 6 deaths so far there. And there are a 168 cases in Contra Costa County with 3 deaths to the north bay marine county theyre reporting 93 cases with one death so far, 58 cases and one death in Sonoma County Solano County has 34 cases and napa county now has 14 cases. County fairgrounds is serving as a drivethru coronavirus testing site d it will also so become a homeless shelter dur
During business hours. Now, your health, your safety, this is this morning big promises straight from Governor Newsom, more he testing for californians and help for medical workers. As of this morning close to 90 people died of coronavirus in the bay area and Santa Cruz County with more than 3,500 confirmed cases. San francisco topping 500 cases. Mend siino coun Mendocino County reported four cases. And weve been plotting the cases on this useful draft to see the trend. This includes the bear aay and surrounding areas with a jump in days starting march 1. Its sunday, april 5th. Im liz kreutz. 24u thank you very much for joining us. We will have much more on the coronavirus in a moment but we want to start a quick look at the Stormy Weather were tracking this weekend. Heres meteorologist lisa argen. Hello it, its certainly been a soaker out there. You see the counterclockwise rotation offshore bringing instability and rain to much of california. We go in closer to American Canyon, up to