From seoul. Its almost 2 months since churches like the Catholic Church decided it was simply too risky to hold masses and services instead preferring to hold Services Online and its only now this sunday that the Catholic Church has decided it is safe for people to come back to churches but only under the most stringent of precautions were at the main cathedral here in seoul its able to take a congregation of up to a 1000 people but the congregation for each mass is around about a quarter of that only 260. 00 people are being allowed in for each service and the older to get into the cathedral you have to turn up early you have to take a number when all of your details are taken who you are where you could be contacted in case there is a case of infection they will know exactly who is in each congregation its all part of the Contact Tracing that the South Koreans seem to be so expert at then you have to line up a 2nd time to get into the cathedral with the usual precautions being taken
Masks are now mandatory in two bay area counties and more to follow. Startling results from a new stanford study that says infection rates are higher than confirmed cases. What the study also reveals. We hear from a bay area pastor ticketed for defying the shelter in place order. Why he is continuing to hold services. It is just about 6 am on the saturday, april 18. Lets start this morning with a check on the weather in the weather center. Foggy and low clouds. Morning if you were eaou evybody gets a 3 degree warmup it. However, the first half will be cloudy, take a look at the view from over my shoulder. That is the scene. Plenty of clouds here, that is how it will look across the entire bay area, this will extend well inland. We are in the low and mid 50s right now. Oakland 58. Santa rosa on the low end at 52. What to expect today cloudy and cool start we will get some breaks of in the afternoon but mainly for the inland locations. If you are near the coast or near the bay you may no
This weekend but in moscow churches have been forced to close due to coronavirus restrictions and congregations must instead get together online. I marry in evanston its good to have you with us africa has officially recorded more than 1000 deaths from covert 19 but the United Nations Economic Mission commission for africa predicts that the pandemic will likely kill even in a best Case Scenario at least 300000 people in the continent and it could push 30000000 into extreme poverty africas 54 countries have so far reported a small fraction of the worlds coronavirus cases but Health Officials say. Thats because of limited testing capability they warn that in the next 6 months africa could see as many as 10000000. 00 infections and Global Economic groups say well over 100000000000. 00 is needed to assist the continent. Well joining us now is emma naylor in google and shes the regional director of the aid group care in kenyas capital nairobi thank you so much for joining us what can you te
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
Also number alexis is deputy ceo of new york city where she runs basically a policy Experiment Lab trying to get vendors to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens of new york. She is the adjunct professor of tech media and communications at Columbia University and she spent a couple decades studying these issues extremely intensively as a student and then as a member of the staff at the un mission. Of the state department, and also just thinking very deeply about them which is so clear from this book which i really admire. So quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] this book is about what you call met states, maybe you want to start by taking a minute and showing us what those are and why you felt like we needed a new category for them. Thank you for coming, its wonderful to see you here and i think the best way to describe what it is is to talk about how icame upon the idea to write this book in the first place. Back in 2015, ther