The students. Christian yes heather, alex districts around the bay area really around the state are working on their distancelearning plants. Now that it is becoming abundantly clear though students might not be back in their classrooms before the end of the school year the bay area going growing increasingly accustomed to seeing empty School Buildings and empty schoolyard. Now the governor acknowledging it is increasingly unlikely that students will return to the classroom this year practical we should be clear that the right thing to do for our children, the right thing to do for the parents, for households, for the communities in which they reside is to make sure that we are preparing today to set our School System up where we are increasing class time but increasing it at home and fulfilling our obligation through Distance Learning the governor and ask google is stepping up providing thousands of computers and Internet Access points to facilitate Distance Learning for all students.
As supply shortages loom from hospital masks to beds to treat the critically ill. These are the people putting themselves in harms way every single moment to treat patients. More states and cities taking aggressive steps to stop community spread. Nearly 8 Million People in Northern California are on day two of a shelter in place order. New york citys mayor now says that same order could very much be a reality here soon. United states and canada also preparing to potentially issue a statement that could suspend nonessential travel between the two countries, and the white house is pushing a 1 trillion stimulus package to try to cope with and battle the economic fallout of the pandemic. This as the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin warns lawmakers that we could see unemployment reach 20 if they dont act. If that happened, that would be near Great Depression era levels. Lets begin this hour with Brynn Gingras in new york. Lets start with new york city. So populous, people live so closely t
The federal government, the white house and the Congress Need to focus on states. Send supplies and money. Were the ones on the frontlines. By making shared sacrifices and temporary changes, we can protect the health of our people and our economy. Were looking at sending checks to americans immediately. Americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now. You need to get money into families hands so people dont feel like theyre running out of a way to feed themselves. Coronavirus doesnt care if youre a democrat or republican. This is new day. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is wednesday, march 18th, 6 00 in new york. John and i are modeling for everyone safe distances. Were more than six feet apart at this point. Have to be. Here are the latest numbers. There are now confirmed cases of coronavirus in all 50 u. S. States and washington, d. C. There are more than 6,000 cases a krots country. That is a 37 increa