We were kind of at our max. Reporter while the median price of a home in california is 706,000, in the bay area its 1,068,000. This time last year it was 900,000, and 18 increase. There has been a pentup demand for homes in the last several years. We have had a low supply of homes for sale. Reporter while some are leaving the bay area, able to work remotely during the pandemic, realtors say many people still want to live here. This is an area thats surrounded by hightech employers that are willing to pay a lot of money for you to work for them. Even if you want to live here. The weather here is wonderful. Reporter this Real Estate Broker sold the 759 square foot one bed, one bath house in san jose for over asking price, 1,055,000 with six offers. The new owner plans to tier it down and rebuilt. The broker says the biggest factor pushing up home sales is the historic low interest rates. And the two percentile, 2. 5 to 2. 75 . Whenever the cost of money is this low you find people being
Briefings this was held at the department of health and Human Services not at the white house the briefing was held after the number of new coronavirus cases in the United States, hit an alltime high of 40,000 today. I think what we are missing on this is something that it is not just isolated to you because if you get infected, you are part innocently or inadvertently, propagating the dynamic process of a pandemic. Because the chances are, that if you get infected, that you will in fact someone else. You may feel well. 40,000 new cases today making the total case count in the United States more than 2. 4 million and as cases surgeon some states there are nearly 2 and half million coronavirus cases again here in the United States more than more than 124,000 people have died from covid19. In minutes we will bring you the governor speaking live as he updates the states response to covid19. We do know the number of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in california,
Right now and hopefully opened back up, at least somewhat, i can bring them back on an a parttime basis. Last week, mayor london breed announced some retailers like book stores could offer store front pickup starting may 15th. What this means for our cities is incredible. Today she expanded the Curbside Pickup and delivery option. It does include all retail in San Francisco. And were talking about close to 95 of businesses that have unfortunately been closed. It includes manufacturing, and warehouses, there will be limitations, masks and social distancing rules. The San Francisco council of District Merchants Association has been watching. It is a step in the right direction. It could never be fast enough. But im at least happy that it is better than what was proposed before. This city plans to give retailers guidance on what is expected. Christie smith, nbc bay area news. Thank you. It a bit confusing but around the bay area it is a mixed bag as far as which counties are following sta
Response at the centers for Disease Control and dr. Kahn has been in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first to have done so they draft history he hasut been fighting diseases and doing deadly wars against deadly contagion spread of factors never been a time when humans were not affected by microbes that fought against them. Our speakers speaker has had his own brushes with viruses and Infectious Diseases and contagion. For example in 1995 he worked among red cross workers in the apollo crisis and after 9 11 he was called to washington to the Senate Office building and in 2003 he was called to hong kong to quarantine victims. These are just some of the stories that dr. Kahn chronicles. As an epidemic intelligence officer, disease hunter d welll his mission for for two decades was to prepare the public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. While dr. Kahn tells us microbes will always be a problem he also writes not all epidemics
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