Strangers. Probably not today. We will see. Maybe things will change in the next couple of months. We will see. Lets change the topics here. A call to address the covid19 pandemic and other disasters like hurricane laura. This morning were joined by cathy from the traveling nursing staff to tell us about the demand and tell us about how this works. Cathy, good morning. Does the agency hire people from here in the bay area . Good morning. Thank you for having me. Certainly we hire nurses from all over the country, and some live in Northern California and taking their skills among all of the counties whether its in california or other parts of the country. Reporter all right. I was areas. Reading a little bit about the theres nothing like jumping on that and seeing it going. Theres a good way to get the agency, sounds like these nurses exercise and just a good sport. Are highly qualified and ready to go between 24 and 48 hours, you know, speakingover sports, what a day that we had in the
Is really the one spot that bore the brunt of the storm. Reporter absolutely. We heard the noise coming in around 1 00. It was pitch black when hurricane what exactly happened in lake charles, louisiana. Laura making landfall early thursday as a category 4 hurricane. The storm sustained winds of up to 150 miles per hour, bringing the threat of storm surge and tornadoes. Lake charles, louisiana also taking a direct hit from laura as the storm weekend. High winds shook buildings and knocked down trees. It is pretty devastating. Reporter thursday morning heavy flooding could be seen across the northwest gulf coast. Areas some 40 miles inland could be affected by days. More than half a Million People were asked to evacuate, but some stayed behind. Officers are coming to work early and planning on working late. Reporter laura is moving further north. Tornadoes, tree damage, and Power Outages remain a concern. Hundreds of thousands are without power. Red cross units have been deployed to hel
Shortly. Similar questions have been raised about outbreaks of schools and when they can reopen. Is there a standard on when they will know, or will schools have the ability to keep them private . I expect full transparency. We put out our guidelines. I encourage anyone watching that is interested in looking at the guidelines we put out for Public Education to go to the site and look at the protocols and processes that we have put forth for over 1000 districts in the state as it relates to monitoring and as it relates to opening and the prospect of an outbreak and the prospect of closing a school. We talked about contact tracers and local Health Officers working with school districts. We talked about expectations on testing and cohoarding staff as well as cohoarding our students and our expectations on mask wearing. The differentiation between Elementary Schools and cohorts of older kids. All of that is available and sets forth the expectation that we have and the transparency we think
County. There was more of a positive tone in the News Conference that wrapped up 20 minutes ago. Cal fire says because the storms did not cause major fire activity, they have turned a corner and have a better handle on the fires. They made Good Progress on all areas of the complex. There priority is the palisades up to the lake county line. They are trying to get a fire line connected to gain more control there. The lnu lightning complex fire is over 500 square miles. That is three times the size of san jose. Containment grew to 22 . 871 to structures have been destroyed. It has been an exhausting last several days. Theres a message from the front line. Everyone on the line is extremely tired, but working incredibly hard. I had an opportunity to see folks out on the line. I can tell you how much joy it gives me to see the smiles on their face. Were going to stop right here and toss it over to governor gavin newsom who was holding a News Conference. Eve attend a state. You will see some
Three major fires burning in than this time during lunchtime yesterday. Yesterday the northbay covered threatening homes is the in clouds and thunderstorms hennessey fire burning your the between 10 30 and 11 30. That really brought in the cooler air for at least the it is 2700 acres. Afternoon. It is 0 contained. Temperatures are backup. Look at the inner ea2 pm, san j the fire did destroy one structure overnight and two out buildings. Evacuation orders are in effect we have a watching that for some homes. Moisture stream from the south. Continues to stream in. 200 residents are under and an evacuation warning. Be ready to go if you have to. Reporter there is the gamble fire that also grew from it is not quite as robust as we 600 acres last night to 5000 have seen it over the bay area sunday into monday. Acres. It is 0 contained. That continues to move out of no evacuation orders are in the area. We continue with the heat at the advisory through tomorrow night. The winds coming out of