Washingtons effort to address job losses amid the coronavirus pandemic. Is next. N journal one month ago today, President Trump declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic. With wyoming over the weekend, all 50 states have been declared Disaster Response areas. Good morning, its monday, april 13, 2020. This first hour we will ask about your thoughts on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic so far and how your state governor is handling the crisis. We will look at joe bidens just published plan to reopen america. Heres how to be a part of the discussion this morning. In the eastern and central time zones, but linus 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, that line is 202 7488001. We welcome medical professionals, to hear from you. That live is 202 7488002 that line is. Is 202 7488002 you can text us at 202 7488003. We have facebook posts ready, we will show you those. As we begin the program yesterday, the New York Times had published a lengthy story on the lead up
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Date. The california spending 1. 4 billion on pp. Ppe. County officials from hayward county say there are 59 cases at a nursing home , 35 a residence in 24 employees have been affected. There is a task force to help the center and they are working to provide staff with ppe. We have learned that two Staff Members and a resident tested positive at the Carlton Senior Living facility in pleasant hill. Three of those residents are hospitalized. 10 bay area senior care facilities are dealing with a coronavirus outbreak. Today we got our first look inside a new hospital ward located inside of the st. Francis hospital. It is served to San Francisco for more than 100 years and is ready to serve the city in its latest crisis , battling covid 19. They have opened a new unit with the 10 beds dedicated to treating coronavirus patients. It can care for 48 patients. The hospital going from idea to open in one week. A logistical challenge. Making sure that we have the right to staffing to support heal
Home. As it started to go under the Golden Gate Bridge, you could hear the roar of cheers from the passengers. It was very moving. Just passed under the Golden Gate Bridge, the bay bridge headed into oakland. The mood is exciting on the deck. People were cheering when we passed under the Golden Gate Bridge. Our ship and our captain and crews have done a remarkable job in light of all of this going on and making sure that we had what we needed, we were comfortable. Many people were in good spirits. Taking a live picture from oakland, the grand princess cruse ship pulls into port after idling for days because of a cluster of coronavirus cases board. Really remarkable how up beat many of those passengers are. We have Live Team Coverage on todays events. Reporters fanned out all across the bay area to bring you the latest. Ambulances have been seen leaving the ship. The sickest passengers were allowed to leave first. Sky 7 took these pictures of dozens of people walking off the ship. Most