Upper 50s. Well get one completely dry day in this weekend before more rain is on the way. Reggie . All right, thank you so much. Governor newsom made an extraordinary move last night when he told all beds for coronavirus hospitals. Jobina has more on that. Californias fight against the coronavirus is keeping Seton Medical Center in daly city open. The hospital recently made headlines about its imminent closure but now Governor Newsom says it will undergo a multimillion dollar project to get ready for patients. 177 hospital beds will be designated, excuse me, for covid19 patients at seton. The state is also planning to transform dorms to house patients. The governor is asking the federal government to ready field hospitals and bring a Navy Hospital ship to los angeles. If nothing number of californians sickened would overwhelm our health care system. An attack rate of about 56 . That the virus will impact about 56 of us. You do the math in the state of california, thats a particularly
Expenses plus 2. 7 million. Officials say the state will lease 177 beds. Thats almost half the beds in the hospital. They will dedicate certain floors to the coronavirus patients. The community had been very worried about losing this hospital wondering where people who needed care would go for help, especially as this pandemic hit. So, there is some relief that the state is using seton. They still have to move in the medical equipment and train the staff, so theyve got a little work to do. So, no word on when the state is going to be moving in here, but a big relief for this community. Live in daly city, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Thank you, amy. So, now, we want to look at the cases in the bay area by county. There are now 483 total. Marin county reported ten new confirmed cases last night and that is the largest single day increase since the first case was reported there on march 4th. Santa clara county continues to report new cases. 14 in the last day bringing their total to 189. S
Georgias kelly love letter will be one of our guests. All that and more on making money. Deirdre the white house is asking congress for more than 800 billion. Were going to take you right there. Hillary vaughn is standing by. Hillary, any new details . Reporter deirdre, yes, specifically about the 850 billion. Were learning that part of that, 58 billion, could be allocated to just the Airline Industry alone. That is according to John Roberts Fox news is reporting but i also asked secretary Steve Mnuchin today if theyre looking for providing economic assistance to any other industries that could be impacted, particularly the Restaurant Industry . He tells me that is on the table for larger Relief Program for small, mediumsized businesses including franchisees. Secretary ma. Looking to send checks to americans immediately. What we heard from hardworking americans, Many Companies shut down, whether bars or restaurants, americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now. I mea
Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time. Members of the public are ad
And actually its serving your constituents to have more of a micro handle on what is sort of going on in our districts, but also to be able to funnel people direct people to their website or to their offices versus them getting like a million calls or 311 getting a ton of calls. So i wanted to say that on the ground we could do that type of helpful work when i know that the city is working on a very macro level. Supervisor walton. Is there a regional conversation about cal pal yes, also on our list, yes. Id say lastly to the staff and then weve got to run. One of the other ideas is, you know, obviously former retirees who are in the Health Care Work as well as volunteers who have Training Background and are formally working with nonprofits or not, but sort of a Health Background or a clinical background. And the third is a lot of our communitybased organizations are deemed nonessential per the order so reaching out to employees from those c. B. O. S who are still getting paid. Were goi