Largest rescue package in american history. This is not a moment of celebration, but one of necessity. Well this is what a lot of us have been waiting for a while you were sleeping the white house says it has reached a deal with congress for stimulus package to help jolt the struggling economy as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Well Senate Democrats they strongly rejected the original version that was introduced on monday. They argue that it just focus too much on wall street and did not spend enough money on main street businesses and also the health care system. So while full details have yet to be released. The breakdown looks like this. 250 billion for direct payments to individuals and families, 350 billion in Small Business loans, 250 million and Unemployment Insurance benefits and 500 billion and loans for distressed companies. A final senate vote is expected today. And speaking of helping out main street thousands of workers who are filing for unemployment are in the servic
County. After 5 days of arduous negotiations. After sleep deprived nights and marathon negotiating sessions. A bipartisan agreement on the largest rescue package in american history. This is not a moment of celebration, but one of necessity. While you were sleeping. The white house says it has reached a deal with congress for a stimulus package to help bring the struggling economy back as the current coronavirus pandemic continues in this country, Senate Democrats had strongly rejected the original version that was introduced on monday. They argued that is focused too much on wall street and didnt spend enough money on main street businesses and the health care system. Full details have yet to be released. But the breakdown look Something Like this. A total of billion for direct payments to people individuals and families. 350 billion in Small Business loans. 250 billion in Unemployment Insurance benefits and 500 billion in loans for distressed companies. A final vote in the senate is
Okay should be and we also have the white sandy of course everybody in the bay area and across the country in the world should be doing this in order to help slow the spread of the coronavirus and we do have breaking news this morning just in to the kron 4 news room. Corona virus related deaths in the bay areas now 25 is 4 more deaths were reported just this morning in San Mateo County. Heres a look at the numbers. Santa clara county now with 375 cases, 16 people have died. As we mentioned 100s, 65 cases in San Mateo County with now 5 deaths, San Francisco county has 152 cases and one death to the east bay now where Contra Costa County has 86 cases and one death. Alameda county with 124 cases and 2 deaths in the north bay marine county has 53 cases that are 24 cases and Solano County 34 cases and one death in Sonoma County and napa county has 3 cases. Wifi help is on the way for people impacted by coronavirus overnight the senate reached a deal with the white house that would send mone
The patient got in contact with. They continue across the spectrum from the individuals home through the hospital system. Officials say the woman came to the hospital in vacaville on february 15 with flulike symptoms. She did not travel to the virus hotspot or have close contact with someone who did attend officials did not test her for the coronavirus. After her health continue to decline, paramedics transferred her to Uc Davis Medical Center four days later. She tested positive for coronavirus. Two colleges have sent him two students after they came in contact with the infected woman. It is believed there was two students that were working as Healthcare Providers and treated the woman at the back of valley hospital. Do i really want to go out there . Residents are wary. The question if the virus is in the community. I have a disabled wife on dialysis and any type of thing that is going around, she is down there and talk to equipment that could be transmitting this stuff. I am scared
Test her for the virus, but the cdc waited until sunday to conduct the test. Now Health Officials must retrace her footsteps and isolate people who may have been exposed. We have a tracing protocol thats best in class. Meaning every single point of contact. Every point of contact as well as those that were in contact. All of those will be resourced and reviewed. The governor says california has been given only 200 kits after the state demanded changes this morning, he says the cdc has agreed to send more kits and change its requirements for testing. Everybody in this country is rightfully anxious about this moment. But i think they should know that we are meeting this moment with the kind of urgency that is necessary. Now in addition to more rigorous testing, the governor says the cdc is sending a team of ten people to california to help track down all those who came in contact with that Solano County wamwoman and try to figure out how she got it. Reporting live in sacramento, im jodi