Or wherever you have to be wherever you happen to be tuning in on your radio or television or your computer. By thebe followed secretary of the department of children and family services. She has updates on nutrition and snap benefits. Doctorstill have the here to answer specific questions about health care testing, that sort of thing. I want to start out by thanking the medical professionals of all types who are working all across louisiana aerobically every single day. I want to thank all of the Health Care Professionals working heroically every single day. I know that today President Trump declared it National Doctors day and i want to join him in saluting our doctors and thanking them. They are absolutely on the front lines today and every day. We would not be able to come close to managing this emergency without our frontline physicians. We still have the same imperatives we have been working on for the last few weeks, to flatten the curve, slow the spread of this disease, and mak
Thank you all again for coming back today and for tuning in, and i do know that these daily briefings can get tedious, and the information, much of it, sounds the same, so people may start to tune it out, but i can tell you the situation is changing, it is evolving, and the information we are putting out is important. Just because the social distancing and hygiene guidance and the stay at home order stays in place after day doesnt mean we shouldnt talk about those things because that will be the key to success in trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and certainly the lowest death toll. I want to think the doctor for being with us today. He has been a practicing physician in new orleans for decades although he does not look that old. Officere chief medical officer. Working with the state office of Public Health and it is great to have you here today. He will take some questions. He will have some prepared comments and take questions after i
Trying to get through this Public Health emergency with the fewest amount of cases and the lowest death total. Corey he thank dr. Bert. He has been a practicing physician for decades, although he does not look that old. He is the chief chief medical officer for dillard university. He is also working with the state of Public Health. And it is great to have him here today. He will take questions and have some prepared comments after i am finished. The doctory have from the apart department of health to take questions related to testing and Public Session other things. Dr. Hebert is here because we mentioned some disturbing statistics coming out of our analysis of the information we are getting, and that is while about 33 of the states population is africanamerican, over 70 of the deaths because of covid19 or among africanamericans. That is concerning to me and to others, and it is unacceptable. We want to better understand why that is and what we can contributed to do, and how we get rid
Police chief says after the murders, they stepped up enforcement and raided multiple locations connected to the gangs. They seized guns, cash, and drugs. It was a volatile time in our community, and in our opinion, our officers prevented additional violence and tragedy. Reporter police say the 2 suspects were already in custody for an unrelated case. Cornejo will be back in court next thursday. Hes facing a number of charges in addition to the 2 counts of murder. Back to you. And we learned multiple search warrants were served in cities across the east bay to actually catch these guys. Reporter thats right, it was a big operation. We understand at least 4 locations in Alameda County and Union City Police got help from hayward, oakland, and Richmond Police departments. Also state level folks were involved big operation. Da lin live in dublin, thank you. A bombshell out of San Francisco city hall today. Mayor london breed revealing she had a private relationship with the former public wo
Breaking news out of San Francisco. Crews are on the scene of a large fire in the castro. The fire is on castro street. We are live at the scene where two people have been hurt and there are a lot of others forced from their homes. Reporter good morning. I do have some good news. The fire is not contained but so a very heavy San Francisco Fire Department here on castro street. I will step out of the way so you can see whats going on. There are firefighters inside of these buildings who have been damaged by the fire. They are going through and investigating they tell us the Fire Department says anytime there is a fire of this size they have investigators out here to look at everything. We dont know up anything criminal went on and we dont know what started it but we know they are investigating heres once it fighters up there are a lot of firefighters standing by for the word to be let back inside. Two people are injured, one person was taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhal