Worlds population has been she will close the parks. Told to stop work or school and stay at home. That is 1. 5 billion people and we have a link for the website many are trying to go outside on www. Ktvu. Com, click on web links to get to the page on coping with the stress. And now the mayor threatened to close city parks. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is live reporting live, Jana Katsuyama, at Golden Gate Park where many back to you. Of course, that time outside people are going. Reporter we saw a lot of is important. People out today and the mayor just maintain the social distancing. Thank you very much. Governor gavin newsom and does not want to have to close President Trump held briefings the parks. This afternoon to discuss the she knows people need get exercise and fresh air but if latest effort to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. People continue to disregard that six feet distance, then she will close the green spaces. Reporter the brisk bay air, ktvus Azenith Smith with more
Im julie haener working from home tonight. It has course is announcing new efforts to combat the virus as the number of cases across the country continues to rise. There are now more than 3600 cases here in the bay area. Santa clara county has the most with more than 1200 cases. California as a whole has 15,000 cases. Thats about 1000 more than yesterday and 349 people have died statewide. In the United States there are now more than 337,000 cases and nearly 10,000 deaths. The death toll is expected to jump this week. Today the president also announced new measures to try to fight the coronavirus. Reporter the federal government implementing new measures to help bolster the countrys fight against the coronavirus outbreak as the number of covid19 cases in the u. S. Continues to climb. This is an allout military operation that weve waged. President trump in the Coronavirus Task was delivering an update on the white house, outlining some of the new steps are being taken this week includin
Practice medicine. The state is looking to add at least 50,000 hospital beds and other sites. I hope the state can add as many as 37,000 more doctors, nurses, and specialist. We are hopeful with the effort we will see a surge of individuals to be paid and compensated to participate in the workforce and distribute throughout the caregiver system around the state of california. Reporter new retired professionals can find more information on the state covid 19 website. A bay area leaders preparing to extend stayat home orders until at least may 1. Christian captain joins us live from San Francisco where the mayor is expected to make an official announcement tomorrow but city officials there are stressing social distancing is still the best tool to combat the spread of the virus. Thats right. Most of the bay area under a state order to stay at home for two weeks. Now they expect the order to run all the way through april. Empty streets and closed businesses a common site the last two weeks
Soon, be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that someone was suggesting. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. At the end of the 15 day period, well make a decision as to which way we will want to go. The timing, and essentially we are referring to the timing of the reopening of our country. The president also talked about protecting the Asian American community, and he did not call the coronavirus the chinese virus. As he has in the past. And california, there are 1733 cases of coronavirus statewide. 27 people have died. 837 of the cases are in people age 1849. 415 cases are among people 65 and older. About an hour ago, gov. Newsom concluded a briefing where he said the state will need more hospital beds. We currently have 416 hospitals in the state of california. We have just shy of 75,000 licensed beds. We need an additional 50,000 beds in our system. Our new modeling suggest that 50,000 is a new target number. The governor says h
Watching for wild swings right here 10 year yields 0. 7 and thats pretty stable compared to where we were two days ago i checked that, whats the problem with the markets but theres a lot going on breaking overnight, this should have been somewhat helpful you would think. Bank of england announced emergency cut. Lowering the bank rate by 50 basis points to. 25 englands central bank also announced a new funding plan to support small and Medium Sized Companies as well as new steps to help commercial banks lend more well get a live report from london in just a couple of moments. Now an update onthe coronavirus. In the u. S. , confirmed cases have now topped 1,000. Want to get to meg now who joins us with the latest meg. Good morning, andrew, case counts drived to 119,000 overnight with almost 4,300 deaths among the hardest hit countries, italy, iran, and south korea and they tell dramatically different stories. Italy reported highest daily jump in deaths yesterday to more than 600 of more