We are going to turn to our , Nicole Gaudiano, education reporter from politico, and talk about how the coronavirus has impacted k12 education in the United States. Good morning. Guest good morning. Thank you for having me. Host thank you for being with us. The 2 trillion coronavirus aid bill that has passed congress and been signed by the president , is there any help for education in this package . Guest there is. 31 billion in education stabilization funding. It will be divided between k12 and higher education. Some of this funding for k12 should help handle continued closures and purchasing Education Technology for Online Learning, because they are having to devise a new system on the fly. This is designed to help with that. Host nicole, what type of guidance is coming from the federal government down to the states and the local education boards and to the schools about coronavirus . Are we hearing much from the department of education on what schools should be doing right now . Gu
Okay, lets talk about that cruise ship, the grand princess, where that Placer County man disembarked from in february but died today. That ship was out again on another cruise, but its now headed back to San Francisco after some of the passengers fell ill. Now Health Officials are investigating whats being called a small cluster of cases. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith joins us live from the cruise terminal in San Francisco with an update on that cruise. Christie . Reporter well, we were out here when the ship last took off from San Francisco, and now it wont even be allowed to dock until everyone on board is tested. Those test kits will be flown out to the ship, and the tests taken to a lab in richmond. February 21st, a cruise on the grand princess left from San Francisco to hawaii. Our cameras were there, and we asked passengers leaving for the 15day cruise if they had any coronavirus concerns following the outbreak on the diamond princess. I had concerns a little bit with it just kept
All bets are pretty much off along the vegas strip. Mgm and wynn resorts both plan to shut their casinos this week. On the other side of the country, popular beaches in miami and ft. Lauderdale have been closed. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 16th. Good morning, everyone. Some major escalations in the fight against the virus are being put in place here in new york city. The citys Public Schools are closed as of today until at least april 20th. Bars and restaurants have been ordered to close except for takeout and delivery. The cdc now recommends that gatherings of 50 or more people be put off for the next two months. And our Parent Company disney said overnight that its closing all Disney Stores beginning tomorrow. Company hotels will be closing by friday. Abcs Erielle Reshef looks at how the coronavirus is impacting our way of life. Reporter some American Cities virtually shutting down. In new york the governor closing the Public School system, saying its the
Oakland. A little more than an hour ago, we began seeing a flurry of activity as dozens of passengers were seen leaving the ship. They are planning to take some of them to the Travis Air Force base, or in miramar in Southern California for testing and a 14 day quarantine. The noncalifornia passengers are expected to be taken on charter flights to military facilities in texas and georgia. We have been out at the port all day long following developments there and we are live now with more. Reporter will consider this, 2400 passengers that have to be cleared roughly. If you can clear one per minute, that is going pretty fast, it was still take 40 hours to do this. This is going to be a multiday effort. The day began with a relief to some passengers, that they would not be in orbit on the north california shores anymore. The grand princess, after orbiting off the Northern California shores for three days , passed into the Golden Gate Bridge around midmorning. And headed for a dock at the p
Bridge. Its slow. Im just looking at this and showing you that there is no break today. Traffic is going to be slow driving across here. And it has been slow getting into marin. And well talk about marin in just a moment. I can also show you the traffic on the eastshore freeway. 30minute drive right now coming in from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze and at the bay bridge, we have a 25minute drive. New accident in san bruno. Well talk about that and some of of these other commutes when we come back in just a few minutes. Straight to new information this morning about a fire at a highrise Apartment Building in the south of market district in San Francisco. Firefighters are now telling ktvu an electric scooter was the source of this Early Morning fire. Flames broke out before 5 a. M. Inside a building on clementina street and gallagher lane. One person was hospitalized with moderate injuries. Looks like firefighters also rescued a dog from that burning building. Time is now 7 0