Practice medicine. The state is looking to add at least 50,000 hospital beds and other sites. I hope the state can add as many as 37,000 more doctors, nurses, and specialist. We are hopeful with the effort we will see a surge of individuals to be paid and compensated to participate in the workforce and distribute throughout the caregiver system around the state of california. Reporter new retired professionals can find more information on the state covid 19 website. A bay area leaders preparing to extend stayat home orders until at least may 1. Christian captain joins us live from San Francisco where the mayor is expected to make an official announcement tomorrow but city officials there are stressing social distancing is still the best tool to combat the spread of the virus. Thats right. Most of the bay area under a state order to stay at home for two weeks. Now they expect the order to run all the way through april. Empty streets and closed businesses a common site the last two weeks
This country to activate its Emergency Preparedness plan so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged but the president refused to accept the crisis is know much greater because testing wasnt more widely available no i dont take responsibility at all because we were given a. Set of circumstances and we were given rules regulations and specifications from a different time wasnt meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that were talking about. The trumpet ministration is planning to introduce drive through testing there will be a website to tell people if they need the test and we have to get it whats missing is when these new measures will kick in the governments top expert says he hopes these steps will shorten the epidemic speaker what you seen now with this order is that were going to be able to remove the constraints so that people at the state the local level the individual physician all the way up through the federal govern
Its distancing. Its social distancing. Thats good way of putting it. Its far off the coast on a high def doppler. You can see it towards monterey. So what i want to do is take live radar and we will switch this to the futurecast and show you how those showers sitting off the coast are going to get pulled up mainly into the south bay today. So a closer look right there getting us into the afternoon. We have a few spotty showers focused on the south bay, which is now Late Afternoon early evening. And you see a trend here. If we sigh rain in the bay it will happen mainly in the south bay. Cant rule out a possibility of a few showers in the north. But mainly to the south. If you want to see how much we will get, its. The lot. We are looking at mayor a quarter of an inch of rain for san jose. But everybody else gets a 10th of an inch of rain if we are lucky. Its not raining now. So if you are stepping out the door, here are the numbers. We range anywhere from the low 40s to about 50. Its 50
At a bay area drivethru. Standing in the rose garden, President Trump announced his bold plan for covid19. Im officially declaring a National Emergency. Reporter standing in the parking lot of a bay area kaiser, dr. Rod is already implementing the president s plan. Drivethru testing. The biggest process is really around us wearing the right protective gear to protect us and the patient to make sure were doing it the right way. Reporter the doctor leads an eight person medical team on this winding afternoon, donning, about a tenstep process of taking on and off the gear for every patient. And then the testing. The actual swab is pretty fast. Patients pull up, they turn off their car, once i have the protective equipment on and i go and talk with them and make sure it is the right patient and we print the label and print the label on the swab and then i go and do and explain the procedure and the swab, which is a little bit in the back of the throat each side and then it is done after th
Rival a dinner of donors held a separate ceremony to inaugurate himself. Bottom to the program the spread and fear of coronaviruses starting to have a major Global Economic impact on top of the growing human cost u. S. Stocks have plunged in the opening minutes in new york even forcing a temporary halt in trading as you can see and a short time ago brazils stock market suspended trading after a 10 percent drop all of this after a drop of around 30 percent in oil prices well kristen slim is our correspondent monitoring events for us in new york and of course the markets across asia and Europe Europe took a huge hit in that domino effect seems to have hit the u. S. What seems to have happened the dow jones today. Yes fears of the spreading coronavirus and plummeting oil prices sent stocks down sharply just after the opening bell at one point the dow jones plummeted more than 7 percent and that triggered an automatic shutdown of the stock markets for 15 minutes weve heard from the preside