Up the hillside surrounding the lick observatory. Positive news from the fire lines in santa clara county. Evacuation warnings lifted this afternoon for parts of morgan hill. Crews are focusing their efforts on digging and shoring up containment lines to trap the flames in the more rural rugged terrain to the east. This entire west flank remains the number one priority of the incident because of the increased threat of Public Safety along populated communities and infrastructure risks as we move further down to the south. Deeper inside the fire lies a very close call high atop mount hamilton. Len ramirez is there. Reporter the views of this once gorgeous california wild land are scenes of devastation. Practically as far as the eyes can see. Fire fighting super tankers come in low over the the of mount hamilton. But the flames and smoke moved farther south revealing devastation all around the lick observatory. Itto see flames, 200foot flames to go through. Site superintendent says the f
Increase in capacity needs. That increase was not only an increase in terms of place, meaning identifying the opportunity to provide conditions where we can find physical assets for individual space, but also the appropriate number of people to help support individuals and needs and of course the up procrit number of personal protective equipment that is foundational and essential to safely providing that care. As we move forward on march 19 of this year, we with intention began a process a new to identify those foundational components so we can meet the needs of those that need to access hospital care and receive high quality care in the state of california. Also to look to utilize our existing hospital footprint, the capacity that exists within a hospital setting and within the larger hospital campus setting to build capacity. In addition to that, of course, we look to identify alternative care sites all throughout the state of california. You may recall a few months back we talked a
Created a new City Department to take over the duties. Our coverage, dan thorn live for us tonight in berkeley he joins us now with more on this idea. Dan. Well they can grant this proposal centers around the idea of essentially re imagining Public Safety. The mayor and City Council Members are proposing that Police Officers focus solely on solving crimes as opposed to handling traffic situations and they believe this could save the city. A lot of money as well as limiting the number of negative interactions between Police Officers and people of color. A new progressive proposal in berkeley could ban police from enforcing traffic stops the move being considered by City Government would instead create an unarmed civilian division to handle the job, you know the calvary trying to cut co sponsor of the proposal Council Member ben bartlett would like to see changes to Public Safety in his city. Bartlett believes a new department of transportation would be better suited then police to take
California governor Gavin Newsom States response to the coronavirus outbreak. Newsom spoke to reporters in sacramento. Governor newsom good afternoon, everybody. Now in our next phase of the beginning process. Actualizing those plans in real time. Let me give you an update of where we are in the state of california. In the last four days we have seen a doubling of the number of hospitalizations related to covid19. In the last four days, double the population that has been hospitalized. We have always seen a tripling of the number of i. C. U. Patients in our system in the last four days. These have long been projected based upon our modeling and consequence. We have for weeks now been organizing ourselves around a require roughly 2 3 increase in capacity within our Hospital System. That requires three fundamental things. It requires finding new places to put people. Number two, it requires having adequate supplies from p. P. E. s to the ventilators. And importantly, number three, requir
These were the ones recently refurbished and repurposed for the purpose that they are assigned. I get, our hearts and prayers go out to everybody, as it relates to meeting this week head on. And making sure that we have all of the appropriate personnel and appropriate sites and equipments. Particularly ventilators, to support those most in need. I want to make an argument for the state of california efforts and putting in perspective the work that is be done here, and over the course of many months. By reminding everybody, that we started on this journey in january, with repatriation flights that came into the United States, through the state of california for people in Mainland China american citizens. We brought them onto air force bases here in the state of california. And began a formal relationship and partnership with the federal government, cdc and respective agencies. That generated a lot of attention and raised alarm bells for the state of california that we needed to prepare