What are some big news for commuters in the south bay sarah. Yes, so im here live at that has been station in the Santa Clara County and that is a huge deal for those who are still depending on this Public Transportation over the loudspeaker here it is being announced that all trains have been shut down due to this positive case of the coronavirus and officials with the Transit Agency say that this is out of an abundance of caution they want to make sure that they dont take any chances of it spreading to any of their passengers for fellow operators and this all happened last night lot the Light Rail Service was shut down at 11 30 last night and 6 trains were operation at the time and sweeps are made to make sure customers were not left stranded on the platforms reduce trying to take care of the customers and other awful operators and starting today the Light Rail Service has been suspended until further notice and operators are being told to shelter in place until they receive further
Absence of a quorum. Madam president , across our country were seeing cities, schools, businesses, and other organizations take the necessary and serious precautions to keep the American People safe from the spread of the coronavirus. School districts, colleges, universities are canceling inperson classes, churches are moving to services online, professional sports teams are hitting pause on their regular season, airlines are canceling flights and many main street businesses are closing their doors. I know that all of this is a little disorienting and certainly alarming. But while these measures arent normal, it is a sign that were heeding advice from the experts, people like dr. Fauci, organizations like the center for Disease Control. Its a sign that were doing what we can to prevent or at least slow down community spread. And its a sign that were standing together and making progress ultimately expecting that we will get through this together. The difficult decisions that need to be
They need get home and get safe take a look at your screen we put a list on your screen of the stores that are stepping up with this initiative for not only elderly people but also those with you compromised immune systems you can see whole foods will leave an hour before open just for these people to get in there safely will have time set aside from 7 until 9 in the mornings tuesday and thursdays target as said im here right now well have the first hour of being open as well as Dollar General this is going to be tremendously helpful so for those who are most susceptible to the virus making sure that they wont get infected. Now that they can get in there avoid lines in crowds. And the store will be most stocked at that time one more local Grocery Store in san joses ins autos market was ahead of the curve they were the one of the first stores in the bay area open early for elderly people and those susceptible take a listen to how theyve been working with this. Pace with us during this p
Seal, two words. , evercr, the state model upwards, aspirational. We can be better, we can lift ourselves. Unum. Ed e pluribus that is more appropriate today then when we started this process. E pluribus unum, out of many, one. It was our Founding Fathers fundamental belief for this nation. Adam spoke to it. Madison adams spoke to it, madison spoke to it, jefferson spoke to it. Although they had a lot of different opinions, the one thing they agreed with was e pluribus unum. Out of many, one. It was good advice then. It is better advice today. Up. Curve continues to go the number of tests has reached a new high. We did over 21,000 tests. Great healthour department. We have over 10,000 cases. Tested positive. 14,000 were hospitalized. Patients, 8800 patients discharged. That is good news. The number of deaths, the highest single increase in the number of deaths since we started. 2300 to 2900 deaths. You see, the totality for new york state, 102,000. New jersey, california, remember when
With any particular benefit. It does have benefits psychologically socially and there are social norms around that and we dont criticize the wearing of masks and have not done so, but there is no specific evidence to suggest the wearing of masks by the mass population has any partular benefit. Again we expect hear something today that word could come from the cdcs will be monitoring that if they make that commendation again that does not mean you should wear a surgical mask or an and 95 those are for health care were absolutely to be the cloth masks the to be best use case for tt. Meantime the various stay at home order has been extended for another month mayor london breed says will be a formal announcement later today, yeah, in fact the Health Department is going unveil their plans kron fours Charles Clifford has more on the story. Mayor london breed said that City Residents should be prepared to remain sheltered in place for at least another month until may first as the city tries t