Wealth, what does Distance Learning mean for families with students in need. Hundreds of cots are set up inside one of San Franciscos Biggest Convention centers as the city turns this place into a temporary homeless shelter during this pandemic. Bay area 10 impacted by coronavirus, threatening a run strike. They want the governors help. Abc 7 news starts right now. Announcer now your health, your safety. This is abc 7 news. Tonight the United States has confirmed more than 215,000 cases of coronavirus, doubling the total in just the last five days. At least 5,100 people have died. As the number of cases surges, California Governor Gavin Newsom is urging other states to issue stayathome orders. What are you waiting for . Eric garcetti is joining a growing push for people to wear face masks in public. This isnt an excuse to go out. Ademic yeaniahrhe we know that this is difficult. We know that tis is a challenge. We have to rise to that challenge. In the bay area there are now more than
Now, g yesterday. Wii hotatn 4,000 chromebooks to get those students online, logged in and working. As the governor said, while the schools might be physically closed, class is still in session. That is certainly the message for all students and their parents across the bay area this morning. For now reporting live in san jose, julian glover, abc 7 news. Thank you, julian. Happening this morning, san jose mayor sam licardo will provide an update on how it is getting food to families in need. Donations and volunteers are down but the need is growing. Licardo and School Leaders will have a map for seniors and young pe pickup restaurants. To the north bay bay area counties in Santa Cruz County eclipsed 2, 700 cases as we enter the critical period in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. 69 people have died from covid19. Santa clara county remains a hot spot nearing 1,000 confirmed cases and 32 people died. San francisco surged with now the number is 434 in total. Close to 400 cases in on the
Something you could do on a green screen. Im pretty sure somebody could figure it out. I cant believe people are concentrating on that and not how crazy my hair looks. My wife had to help me tame it today. You cant get a haircut. You cant go out to eat. You cant run up to a stranger and lick their face. It very much feels like were living in the opening scene of a zombie movie. And yet, humanity is still happening. We have seen videos from italy and all over the world of families isolated in their apartments belting out songs from their balconies, playing instruments to lift their spirits and the spirits of those around them. And nowhere have these fire escape artists been greeted with more enthusiasm than new york city. [ bleep ] shut the [ bleep ] up and that was mayor diblasio new york is the best jimmy sadly, the death toll in new york city is over 900 now. The governor is asking doctors and nurses from other states to come and help. Last night this is how they lit up the Empire St
San mateo is just ahead of San Francisco with 453 cases. In the north bay, mendocino reporting four confirmed cases and lake cconfirmed cases. An old ford factory is being converted into a emergency mdical center. These preparations were under way to transform the event center into a makeshift hospital. We are working to double Hospital Capacity from 1,100 beds to about 2,200 beds. Its a giant space and has all of the capable infrastructure to support Something Like this. National guard troops have assembled 250 beds. This makeshift hospital would only be activated if other medical centers end up being overwhelmed with patients. Santa clara county is preparing for a possible surge of patients. County leaders are addressing the question of what happens if they suddenly need to hospitalize large numbers of people. Abc 7 News Reporter chris nguyen hashose D Santa Clara countys hospital are ready for a surge in covid cases. At Good Samaritan in san jose chief nursing officer mark brown has
Countries that have gone through various phases of their individual outbreaks. And you could learn something from them about where you are in your own outbreak. For example, when china went up, what happened is they just didnt turn around, they went from going to ill just take an arbitrary number 500 new cases a day. The next day 1,000 cases. Then 1,500. Then 2,000. But once the number of new cases each day starts to flatten out, thats when you get to that point where the inflection goes down. So things we want to look for, the things that dr. Birx had mentioned, that doesnt mean you declare victory when it does that, but you know youre at least on the way where you want to go. I think thats really very important. The third and final thing that i think gets back to the question that many of you in the audience have asked of us is about, would this possibly become a seasonal, cyclic thing . Ive always indicated to you that i think it very well might. And the reason i say that is that wh