These are live pictures from our nbc bay area sky ranger. It seems police are blocking off the entrance to disrupt the protest. Well continue to follow the developing story and bring you updates as we get them. Just in, an update on the number of covid19 casarea. Right now there are nearly 3,000. 77 people have died so far. Santa clara county is still the bay areas hot zone with San Francisco county coming in second with nearly 500 cases. The city of fremont just opening its first free covid19 testing site. We first told you about this during today in the bay this morning. Nbc bay areas bob redell joining us live. Bob, how has the turnout been so far . Reporter marcus, weve seen i would guesstimate 40 to 50 cars so far. Its not the kind of turnout we saw a couple of weeks ago at the city of haywards test site when hundreds of people showed up on the first day. The city of fremont opened its r at stephenson boulevard at 10 00 this morning, in partnership with the city of hayward. Drivet
Welcome home. My name is derek. My wife and i own midtown scholars. Im also the mayor of harrisburg. [applause] a democratic enclave in the middle of pennsylvania. [laughter] it is a pleasure to welcome everybody here tonight for best sellingel authors. Before we begin, we have some guidelines. I want to make this event go as smooth as possible. At this time, will you please take out your phones and join me ass we power off and silence our cell phones. We want to welcome cspan tonight. Both tv. [cheering and applause] they will be filming. Checkbook tv for the listings. They usually get them up and running real quick. We want to try to not have any interruptions. Thank you. At this time, i want to introduce our speakers. Beforeak we do i want to quickly plug onepl upcoming event. Grab one of our flyers. A lot of of great talks coming up. Incredible bestselling authors coming. Friday, march 6, you may be particularly interested in professor gretchen. Driving while black. The true story
Sal castanedas here now. It is quiet. And yesterday at 6 00 we did have people who were going to work and here on the bay bridge this morning at 6 00, it is absolutely light. No doubt a lot of people are heeding the warning to stay home. You can always send me a tweet. Were always on social media here. If you were not going to work yesterday and youre going today, let me know what kind of job you do. Im curious. All three bay area airports are still open. Public Transportation Systems are still running. They ask that you practice social distancing and should be no issue because transit systems are not crowded at the moment. 6 01. Lets go back to the desk. Strict shelterinplace order took effect at midnight in six bay area counties. Some of the bars, nightclubs, and restaurants in downtown san jose closed at midnight as part of that order. Ktvus allie rasmus joins us now to talk about the effects this is having on the bay areas biggest cities and the many people who are now out of work.
Now also the mayor of harrisburg. [applause] it is a pleasure to welcome everyone here tonight for bestselling author dan pfeiffer but before we begin we have some guidelines to make us go as smooth as possible. Please take out your phone and join me as a power off our cell phones we want to welcome cspan tonight they will be filming with a want to add any interruptions. So thank you. At this time i went to introduce our speakers but i want to quickly plug one upcoming event. There is a lot of great talks coming up friday march 6 you may be interested driving while black a true story of the green book and its effects. That is at 7 00 oclock. The number one New York Times bestselling author. [cheers and applause] and author of god save america. [cheers and applause] one of Barack Obamas longest running advisers under president obama 2009 through 2014 Senior Advisor to the president and lives in the bay area with his wife and their daughter. Interviewing him this evening. [cheers and app
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