He promotes women, and he respects women. This particular case could be the first possible instance of Community Transmission in the united states. Now at 11 00 a coronavirus bombshell and a bay area county at ground zero tonight. A tragedy in Contra Costa County tonight, a violent crash kills an 11yearold boy crossing a busy road. The police chief had to go. I just see a power grab more from commissut. Nd Police Commission gets an earful from both sides after ousting the chief. Im dead. When i was rolling down, i remember yell roll over and hand above my head. And a driver catches her own near death experience on dashcam as she careens down a bay area cliff. Now at 11 00 and dreaming on cbsn bay area a mystery coronavirus case prompts a state of emergency. Good evening. Im veronica de la cruz. Im elizabeth cook. We retrace the patients steps and the questions swirling about this case. Reporter Officials Say the patient was active here in Solano County and was in the hospital for some
Been working through the day with Governor Newsom and his administration through their unified command efforts in california. We have developed a plan which will be implemented this weekend. All passengers and crew will be tested for the coronavirus. There are 3,500 people on board this ship. The Vice President says that anyone who needs to be quarantine forward a positive test will be placed into isolation. Where might that cruise ship come ashore. There are several noncommercial ports where the vessel could drop anchor. Tom is joining us from outside the state lab in richmond where those tests were processed. What do you think are some of the possibilities that Health Officials are looking at . Reporter when you say noncommercial port, i assume that means, or one should assume that means, a port that doesnt handle cruise ships and things like that. There are plenty of ports in the San Francisco bays that could easily handle this boat. Lets look at a few numbers. This boat is 950 feet
It will go to a noncommercial fort and all of the passengers and crew will be tested. There are more than 3500 people on board and the grand princess is off the coast of san mteo right now. San mateo county. While giving the update on the tests, Vice President pence thanked california for its help. I want to express our gratitude to Governor Newsom and the state of california for their full partnership, not just in dealing with the grand princess, but throughout the advent of coronavirus. California has been a strong partner. The grand princess was returning to San Francisco after a 15day trip to hawaii. A man who sailed to mexico on the same boat last month died of the coronavirus. Abc 7 News Reporter kate larsen spoke with passengers today. Shes live in San Francisco. Kate, what have they been telling you . Reporter well, right, passengers are just learning about this news. Most of them heard it on tv first. They just heard from the ship captain a few minutes ago. What we do know and
Any highrisk factors she picked it up from the community. The patient is an older woman who has been hospitalizeded. And Officials Say she is doing well. Live coverage for you tonight. Lets start with tom vacar, outside the richmond lab where the cruise ship tests were analyzed. Tom . Reporter you can see pictures of the ship on a previous voyage coming into the bay. It was more important for the lab to get this information correct. Why were and are officials being so very careful about coronavirus . Among those tested, 46 persons were swabbed. 21 of those on the ship tested positive for the coronavirus. 24 tested negative. One test was inconclusive. Reporter this has a lot more to do with not only the 21 people on board who contracted the virus but others on board who may have been exposed and may get sick later. Remember, there are 2,400 passengers on the ship plus another 1,711 members of the crew. The people come from 43 different nations. Since there are now 197 countriacious quar
Quarantined, those that require additional medical attention will receive it. Reporter passengers aboard the grand princess today were getting cabin fever after 24 hours confined to their rooms, and feeling anxious about their health. I would like to test everybody, and test me to make sure, i dont want to take anything home to my family, you know, to be on the safe side. Reporter as we just learned, all of those passengers and crew members aboard the grand princess will be tested for covid 19. It is unknown exactly how long it will take for all of those test results to come back, we are talking about at least a few thousand test the need to be processed at this point, and as for where the grand princess will go, theres only so many deepwater ports, in the bay area, some of those are commercial, some of those are not, the question is where exactly does the ship and up. Allen . To just everybody will take a while, they want to another helicopter drop, but, once they do that, its going t