To begin with. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. Im Justine Waldman and we are tracking the coronavirus outbreak in the bay area and the future of the grand princess cruise ship. That is circling off the california coast. We have Team Coverage tonight kron fours dan store and talked with cruise ship officials about the passengers on board and when and where they could possibly doc. But first kron fours gayle ong has the latest on the new cases just reported today in the bay area gales. 3 women and 3 men are the newest coronavirus cases in San Francisco. Each of them hadnt known contact with the person with the virus and with the situation changing so rapidly City Health Officials expect more confirmed cases. The San Francisco department of Public Health says there are now 6 patients in the city who tested positive for coronavirus this is a indication of increasing circulation of this Novel Coronavirus Deputy Health officer doctor Susan Phillips as the new was cases in the city
Coming to the port of oakland within the next 24 hours going to the old port of america site saying that that is that that is the safest place for the ship to be off loading passengers. We want to get the very latest now from kron fours dan thorn. He is live for us after talking with cruise ship executives who also get some information on how the virus may have gotten on board that ship in the first place he is live now for us in San Francisco. Justine weve reached out to cruise ship executives tonight to see if they would also confirm this information we havent heard back from them. But as you mentioned this on this in the grand princess will be going to the port of oakland here in the bay area and then some of those people will be getting quarantine at either local medical centers here or on as weve heard through a congressman in texas Joaquin Castro at Lackland Air Force base and were still working to confirm a lot of information but as you mentioned crews executives on did mention
We have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to about emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of the sudden change we will significantly reduce Opening Statements. We will do 10 minutes so we can get right to questions. Witnesses, please keep your oral statements as brief as possible. At 11 45 we will recess the hearing and work with the agencies to determine when the witnesses can return. With that i recognize myself for a few remarks. I want to thank everyone for being at this hearing. Our thoughts go out to everyone and our colleagues representative meadows and representative gosar who cannot participate here today. Were now in the middle of a Glob
Morning was talking about the time change is evident here the shot of u c berkeley, all lit up at this hour there. Some leftover cloud cover with us but we did have a nice clear patch going on to overnight that allow temperatures to tumble. Heres the shot from the golden gate look at that. Not much the way of winds either thats another factor, mild temperatures to fall. But like a clear patch were getting right now to get too used to it though well see the clouds reassemble couple sprinkles down to the Santa Cruz Mountains maybe a little bit and in Mount Hamilton as we speak elsewhere not much going on upstream again the cloud cover will gather here very shortly were going go back to mostly cloudy mode. Also we have some ground fog a little bit in some of the outlining areas that will also mix out most focused and the south bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains as i mentioned look at this. Temperatures really felt there in the north bay again drier air kind of snuck in clear skies not much
Brought to you today by your television provider. Next, centers for Disease Control and prevention director dr. Robert redfield and National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases director dr. Anthony fauci testify on the coronavirus outbreak. They were joined by other Health Officials at this House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. It is two hours and 10 minutes. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I want to inform members that we have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning, we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to an emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details, just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of this sudden change, we are going to significantly reduce Openin