Bay area news. Thank you. Kaiser is looking to rush to build a lab to deal with the rash of new tests on north berkeley, to handle 10,000 tests a day. The hospital says test results will be open in 24 hours. The lab should be up and running by june 1st. President trump revealed just in the past hour that he signed his executive order barring immigration into the u. S. The order blocks immigrants from entering the country for 60 days and bans temporary work visas. The president says he is protecting american jobs and also reserves the right extend it if the outbreak continues. And President Trump talked about how he is helping Governor Newsom with californias new testing plan. The government will be sending california swabs for the testing ability. We will get them quickly, can he get it himself . Yes, but we can get it faster and we talked about it. And he has done a good job. Governor newsom talked about the phone call with the president and appreciates the help that he is giving cali
Removing a tumor. The coronavirus is in the south bay much earlier than we had known. More information on what Health Officials are saying were the first cases in the bay area. Those first cases now it appears were the first cases in the entire country, not washington state. Scott budman is tracking the story. Reporter we now know there were three covid19 related deaths in Santa Clara County earlier than we thought. The first on february 6th, two others on february 17th and march 6th. Previously, the first death in the south bay was thought to have happened march 9th. Dr. Sarah cody says the newly known cases are likely the tip of the iceberg. What these deaths tell us is we had Community Transmission probably to a significant degree far earlier than we had known. Reporter she also says while the three victims didnt seem to travel much before they got sick, their symptoms were probably similar to the seasonal few. Robert morales of san jose thought the same thing. He thinks he may have
After learning coronavirus was here much earlier than anticipated. Also one bag was opened. Someone had been rummaging through the items. Reporter swiped from her porch. One womans warning about organized groceries online. Good wednesday evening. Thanks for joining us. Im janelle wang. And im jessica aguirre. One of the last to issue a shelter athome order now one of the first to ease restrictions. Napa county pulling back on some of its rules, golfing, house shopping and some landscaping businesses are now a go with precautions. Nbc bay areas cheryl hurd joins us from napa with more on the cheryl. Gut not ter napa county is requiring face coverings. Six bay area counties are making that mandatory. Even though some of the rules here are being loosened a bit, the stayathome orders are still in full effect. Downtown napa remains a ghost town tonight. But in other parts of the city there are signs of life in the middle of this coronavirus crisis. This is my onebedroom, onebathroom. Report
We have some breaking news we want to share with you out of orinda this morning. There are reports of an explosion and a fire. Take a look at the map on your screen it happened just before 5 00 this morning not far from the high school. Details are limited this morning. We reached out to officials. Lets show you some video from a resident who said she woke up to the sound of the explosion, came outside, this is what he saw. He was told on the scene by police a popping sound you could hear in the video is a sound of ammunition being set off by the fire. No words injuries or if anyone was inside the house. This story is still developing. We will bring you updates throughout the show. Medical experts say coronavirus numbers for california and the bay area are trending well. 22,416 confirmed cases in california including 634 deaths california ranking number five in the number of total cases after massachusetts surpassed us yesterday. 4867 confirmed cases in the bay area including 133 death
Timeline some even pushing back their opening dates until least may 15th. Beyond the president may first goal tonight there are more than 2 million confirmed cases of covid19 in the world and more than 143,000 deaths, this is all according to Johns Hopkins university. In the United States there are more than 660,000 cases and more than 32,000 deaths in california there are more than 27,000 cases of coronavirus and it has claimed the lives of more than 900 people. Today President Trump unfolded his major plan to reopen the country as Americans Still continue to battle the unrelenting coronavirus pandemic as kron fours Theresa Stasi reports, the plan leans heavily on governors and how each state is uniquely dealing with the virus. America wants to be open and americans want to be open. The president flying to buy his experts on the White House Coronavirus task force diving into the details of how the country is going to reopen. Our approach outlines 3 phases and restoring our economic li