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
It to Alameda County District Attorney pamela price is fighting back against the group trying to recall her why she believes the effort to kick her out of office is illegal. Plus low palestinian demonstrations heating up all across bay area universities. Were going to live from one campus where students are now taking part in the nationwide protest. And back on the water Golden Gate Ferry Service between sausalito on San Francisco will soon be back up and running. Well tell you when. Station. Hes calling for news. 2. Thank you for joining us here on kron for news at to. Im just involvement in our top story this afternoon. As that the state has now opened up an investigation into the group financing. The effort to recall Alameda County District Attorney pamela price. Kron 4 super reports the California Fair Political Practices Commission is looking into potential violations of the political reform act. Alameda County District attorney pamela price. As back in december, her campaign prot
Meanwhile, are squaring off over testing. In a Conference Call today the Vice President , mike pence, tried to reassure the nations governors that the administration is working to get them testing supplies as soon as possible while the president insists theres no shortage of testing and that its largely the responsibility of the states anyway. Tonight the u. S. Death toll has now surpassed 41,000 with more than 770,000 confirmed cases. Worldwide there are more than 2. 4 million cases right now, confirmed cases, probably a whole lot more. And 169,000 deaths, probably a whole lot more than that as well. Lets begin this hour with the big news out of georgia right now. Lets go to our National Correspondent erica hill. Erica, very dramatic statement from the governor of georgia. Reporter it is dramatic, and it also makes you stop for a minute. When you look at the businesses that Governor Brian Kemp has pointed out, and you went through some of these, gyms, fitness centers, body arts studio