Hospital got its first patients today. We go to santa clara. Reporter im wearing a mask as a precaution. Late this afternoon, two covid19 patients were transferred here to the Convention Center from local hospitals. And more patients are expected to arrive here later this week. Covid19 patients with milder symptoms are now recovering at the santa clara Convention Center. Instead of hosting tech conferences, the center is transferred into a federal medical station with 250 beds, where doctors, nurses and pharmacists will treat patients 24 7. As more patients pour into bay area hospitals, this site will decrease the patient load and help hospitals focus on more critical patients. They will have the ability to transfer low acuity patients to this site, where they can carry out their recovery for the coronavirus. Reporter more than 1,000 people nationwide have died from the virus in the last 24 hours, the thirdstraight day for that grim milestone. Now, a dire warning from the surgeon gener
In the east bay we had an earlier crash, eastbound 24, the slowing earlier cleared. Theyre still there. No problem traveling away from the bay bridge. Back to you. Thanks, mike. Tracking coronavirus cases across the country there are now more than 337,000. The bay area has more than 3,600 confirmed cases. Santa clara county has about onethird of the overall total and at least 89 people have died here in the bay area. In the meantime on capitol hill americas Biggest Health leaders are warning this could be our roughest week yet as america continues to battle the pandemic. Tracie potts joins us live from washington, d. C. , this morning with the very latest. Tracie . Reporter laura, good morning. They say we are going to see the numbers soar this week and it will be a tough week. While things are getting worse in some areas theyre starting to get better in others. I see light at the end of the tunnel. Reporter with coronavirus cases expected to peak this week, the white house is hopeful.
Changes what was considered to essential business. This new order sinking in for many people. Robert handa joins us now. Robert . Reporter yes, the changes have really caught many people and businesses off guard. Not too surprising really, because sit a very extensive new order. But for some, it was a lot to take in overnight. Marcus had no idea he was probably breaking the law when he brought his pet, munchy, to this san jose dog park. From the time he was here the other day, the Public Health department made dog parks and play grounds offlimits as part of stricter social distancing rules. Like i said, i didnt know until you told me. And if they have to close it, theyve got to close it for our safety. I dont like it. But it has to be done. Reporter frank hampton, the supervisor for the stanford Painting Company agrees. Until today, the company was considered essential. But like other rez dn shall and commercial construction related businesses, that has changed. The first time in 23 ye
Store on newell avenue near broadway and is now in quarantine. Whole foods sent out a statement that read in part, quote, out of an abundance of caution the store performed an additional cleaning and disinfection on top of our current enhanced sanitation measures. Oakland is opening a new drivethrough test site. But this is not for the general public. Only certain people will be able to get tested there. Nbc bay areas kris sanchez is live from home. Kris, i know you watched that press conference. What are the details surrounding this new test site . Reporter you may be relieved to hear there are more tests available in oakland. This is not for everybody, there are still a shortage of tests available so oakland is trying to maximize how they use the available tests. Speaking in the last hour or so, mayor libby schaaf, wearing a red bandanna to cover her mouth while out in public, she announced widening of testing. Up to now, oakland was first Testing Health care workers, police and fire
Refurbished for exactly the purpose they are assigned and again our hearts and prayers go out to everybody as it relates to meeting this very difficult week had on and making sure that we have all of the appropriate personnel and the appropriate sites as well as equipment, particularly ventilators, to support those most in need. I want to make an argument for the state of californias efforts putting in person active the work being done, not just here that over the course of many months, by reminding everybody that we started on this journey in january with repatriation flights that came back 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 the formal partnership with the federal government, the cdc and their respective agencies. Of course that generated a lot of attention and obviously raised the alarm bells for the state of california that we needed to