Social distancing requirement seriously, you are putting lives at stake. San Francisco Mayor closing playgrounds and threatening to close the city parks. Good evening everyone. I am heather holmes. I am frank somerville. Governor gavin newsom closed flutes keep people from gathering. In washington the senate failed for a second time to advance a 1. 8 trillion economic rescue bill. And that prompts House Democrats to come up with a version of their own. President trump said fema is sending medical equipment, 8 million n95 masks to hard hit states. The Coronavirus Task force says commercial labs testing for the virus. The president announced a delay for real i. D. S. The president today called for all americans to protect Asian Americans saying they are not responsible for spreading the disease and in california the negative of positive coronavirus cases jumped to more than 2,000, half of those are here in the bay area. Now the governor is calling for more hospital beds to handle the sur
Worlds population has been she will close the parks. Told to stop work or school and stay at home. That is 1. 5 billion people and we have a link for the website many are trying to go outside on www. Ktvu. Com, click on web links to get to the page on coping with the stress. And now the mayor threatened to close city parks. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is live reporting live, Jana Katsuyama, at Golden Gate Park where many back to you. Of course, that time outside people are going. Reporter we saw a lot of is important. People out today and the mayor just maintain the social distancing. Thank you very much. Governor gavin newsom and does not want to have to close President Trump held briefings the parks. This afternoon to discuss the she knows people need get exercise and fresh air but if latest effort to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. People continue to disregard that six feet distance, then she will close the green spaces. Reporter the brisk bay air, ktvus Azenith Smith with more
Soon, be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that someone was suggesting. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. At the end of the 15 day period, well make a decision as to which way we will want to go. The timing, and essentially we are referring to the timing of the reopening of our country. The president also talked about protecting the Asian American community, and he did not call the coronavirus the chinese virus. As he has in the past. And california, there are 1733 cases of coronavirus statewide. 27 people have died. 837 of the cases are in people age 1849. 415 cases are among people 65 and older. About an hour ago, gov. Newsom concluded a briefing where he said the state will need more hospital beds. We currently have 416 hospitals in the state of california. We have just shy of 75,000 licensed beds. We need an additional 50,000 beds in our system. Our new modeling suggest that 50,000 is a new target number. The governor says h
Checkpoint and sent home on monday. In washington, President Trump has just signed a coronavirus funding bill that would provide relief to businesses and people impacted by the virus. It offers more than 100 billion in food assistance. It includes guaranteed sick leave for workers and to make testing virus for the costfree. The United States and canada have agreed to temporarily close their share boarder to nonessential travel. Both President Trump and canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, say trade will not be affected by this closure. In california, Governor Newsom has told the National Guard to be ready to step in if communities need extra help during the coronavirus crisis. The governor says the troops can provide humanitarian missions like distributing food and supporting public safety. Health officials in napa county have ordered a shelterinplace directive as farring tomorrow at midnight to avoid spreading the coronavirus. There are no confirmed cases of covid19 in napa. A pas
Good evening everyone. I am julie haener. And i am frank somerville. There are more developments on several fronts. In washington, President Trump signed a funding bill that would help provide relief to businesses and people impacted. It offers more than 100 billion in Food Assistance aid and guaranteed sick leave for workers and it will make testing free of cost. On wall streets talks down again. The dow dropped more than 1300 points to 6. 3 . All the market gains of the prump presidency have been wiped out. The Stork Stock Exchange is clearing all people in manhattan and San Francisco on monday. Four more counties joined the shelterinplace order. It prohibits nonessential travel to the bay area. Orders in stanislaustake effect tomorrow. Officials in napa county say the 24 hours is to give people time to prepare. Ktvus debora villalon, napa is notable because it is the only county with zero cases of covid 19. Reporter thats right. No local patient. Just one person from a cruise ship b