Numbers of infections will continue to go up. Please stay in contact and go to covid. Sd. Gov for all the information updated by noon each day. The good news i have to report today is we have two more people who have recovered, so our total is eight of our positive covid i. D. d individuals now have fully recovered. I was on a phone call yesterday with the Vice President of the United States going over a lot of the federal response to this pandemic across the country and one of the statistics we gave was that one week ago, 50,000 completed tests were processed. Now more than 300,000 have been processed. Thats good news that means that at the federal level and across the country that more of these tests are going through the system and that we fully expect to get rid of the backlog of those tests through the commercial and public labs in the next week. Today i made sure we put forward an executive order on state employees. We will continue with state employees in the state of south dako
And nurses in Emergency Rooms rooms around the country who are waiting for more masks and more funding. Its good news for families all across america. At last we have a deal. After days of intense discussions, the senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on a historic relief package for that pandemic. It will rush new resources onto the front lines of our Nations Health care fight and it will inject trillions of dollars of cash into the economy as fast as possible to help American Workers, families, Small Businesses, and industries make it through this disruption. And emerge on the other side, ready to soar. The bipartisan cares act will squarely address each of the big four priorities that i laid out in my legislation at the beginning of the process about a week ago. It will rush Financial Assistance to americans through direct checks, to households from the middle class on down, and through a significant and creative expansion of Unemployment Insurance during this emergency. It will
Income homeowners and renters there are in america . Guest sure. At the National Low Income Housing Coalition will look at extremely low income renters and their housing needs, and we know that nationally we have shortage of 7 million homes, affordable and available to the lowest income people. Another way of saying that same number is for every 100 of the lowest income renters, seniors, people with disabilities, others, 3100, there are 36 Homes Affordable and available to them. So because of this shortage of homes for the lowest income people, there are over 8 million extremely low income households who are paying more than half of the income towards rent. Many of them are pink 50, 60, 70 of income every month just to keep a a roof over their he. When youre such limited income to begin with, it is more a financial emergency away from not being able to pay the rent than facing potential eviction or homelessness. For many of these families, coronavirus will be that financial emergency.
Assistance center in gilroy. A counselor told me this is what shes been telling parents. Bevi diffent fm theirssleany kno my parents are struggling with the same questions, they cant get to gilroy. For those watching, this is her advice. I theue sa t avoid as parent retrauma advertising our children. I think to avoid terminology like mass shooter, active shooter. Reporter thats the advice grief counselor mary has been giving out nonstop since the garlic festival shooting. With two back to back shootings in the first day of school around the corner, her advice is more important than ever. The parents is the best place to go. They know their child best, theyre expert on their own child and thats where they should be getting their healing information and majority of their information. Reporter what do you mean by healing information . Talking to the child appropriately in a way thats therapeutic and loving and compassionate. Reporter healing trauma is the number one concern for the Victim
By a gold vehicle prior to the shooting. On 680, one of the shootings claimed a life. Matthewry acy had been shot and killed, his car found in the center median. The Highway Patrol doesnt have a suspect yet in any of these incidents. They are investigating whether road rage was involved and they dont believe the shootings are related. At this time, we dont have any information to suggest theres a threat to the general public. Two final notes here. Informioon any of these any shootings, they would like to hear from you. Secondly, if you do run into a road rage incident like this one or involving driving that is reckless they recommend you try to disengage and create some distance between yourself and the other car and pull off where you can and call 911 and let them deal with it. Live in milpitas, eric thomas, abc7 news. Thank you. A person is in custody following two homicides in san mateo county. Detectives are work to see if the cases are related. Each victim suffered multiple stab w