Regardless of whats happening. The same amount of business and people. Its been the same. Make no mistake. Stay at home orders are in effect. This is the county the hardest hit in the bay area. The video from the mexican Heritage Plaza shows last years celebration. 1,000 guests across the six acre facility. This holiday the plaza is closed and events cancelled because of covid19. Its the right thing to do. Were containing the spread. What it means it not right now the facility isnt being activated. A very different scene. This is the same location where a large crowd gathered saturday. On tuesday cars returned an hour after police cleared the lot. A short time later officers were back too. They wont stay away. Theyll break it up and take off. Come back. Theyll find another spot. It will be like a cat and mouse all day. Police made it clear officers will not going into crowds to Issue Citations violating the social distancing health order. Three california counties are defying governor
Now its just a matter of getting parents to sign on. I think many parents are afraid to bring their child back to child care facilities until the shelterinplace order is lifted. Also, many parents moved out of the city for this period of time. Child care centers have been able to remain open for families of essential workers or children in vulnerable groups. This new government web portal lists all available centers. As more parents go back to work, at seabird, they said its not their responsibility to check a parents work status. We have availabilities. We would like our existing students to come back as soon as possible, as well as we open to the new students. So seabird told me they actually need about a dozen students to open this friday. So theyre waiting to see if any parents are signing on. That just tells you that different providers have very specific circumstances to deal with before they can open, despite directives that they are allowed to open. Am marks dan . Chris, so if
The spirit which they are wanting to loosen things up want to see those numbers increase and spike because of those decisions. The California Department of Public Health says 33,261 people in the state have tested positive for covid19. 1,268 have died. Its been more than a month since california began its shelterinplace order. And now there is increasing pressure to ease that order and reopen the state. Other states have already started that process. But experts and politicians warn this might be a little too soon. Abc7 news anchor liz kreutz joining us live now to break it all down. Liz . Hey, larry. Governor newsom, like so many other state leaders is trying to find that delicate balance between keeping the public safe and reopening the state and the economy. So today we decided to look at what some other states are doing as california does take a slower approach. Its the question were all asking, when will california reopen. There is a lot of anxiety and a lot of need to know. Under
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
People or assure the American People that we are willing and able to Work Together to get a job done for them. I think this is a really good sign that shows the bipartisan, the working together. We can overcome this virus. Weve done much bigger things before. Tonights vote sets up a senate vote that could happen as early as next week. Also a lastminute scramble at airports around the world. The european travel ban went into effect about two hours ago. Americans racing to get home and europeans rushing out of sfo. 26 countries included in this ban. Heres the map. People from these countries will not be able to enter the u. S. For the next 30 days. This does not apply to u. S. Citizens and green card holders. Nbc bay areas lee lee tan is at sfo with the latenight shuffle for. Lili . Reporter travelers from paris, munich, zurich and other european cities landed just hours before the new travel restrictions went into effect. They said it was surprisingly easy to get through customs, and th