In the address to the nation, President Trump said he will approve a major disaster declaration for california. The declaration will assist the state in Emergency Response efforts. They will activate the National Guard in california. The federal government will be funding 100 of the cost of deploying National Guard units to carry out approved admissions. Stop the virus. This will give them maximum flexibility to use the guard against the virus without having to worry about liability. A short time ago got an update from officials. There have been two more covid 19 deaths. That brings the total to 10. Officials say the patients were both women. One was 40. The other was 60 years old. Both had underlying medical conditions. We also learned that there is 39 new cases in Santa Clara County bringing the total number two 302. The virus has hit all bay area counties after nap confirmed its first case. The patient is in the city of napa and is in isolation. There are 705 confirmed cases across
Get rapid results to let the patients know if they are carriers, even if they are asymptomatic to quarantine and know they are being quarantined for a reason. The commissioner released a statement saying, today marks an important step in expanding the availability of testing and importantly rapid results. There are more than 23,000 expert machines in operation worldwide. The new test ship friday with a rollout on march 30. Kpix 5 a fire station is being set up as a drive up screening station. Tents have been sent to the station. They can handle up to 370 tests a day. They will operate from 9 am to 6 pm starting monday. Open to anybody without a referral but the city cautions that there is a screening process. What we are asking is that people only with the symptoms, i merrily fever or other symptoms come to the site so it is not overwhelmed. If you show up, it does not mean you will get a test. People will be screened before getting cleared. People that are tested will wait for results
Trump legal battle this hour. In florida, former president is in court as we speak and his legal team is arguing special counsel jack smith classified documents case should be thrown out entirely. Meanwhile, over in georgia, were awaiting a judges ruling on whether or not to disqualify Fulton County day fani willis from the States Election interfere case. This is outnumbered, im kayleigh mcenany, here with my cohost Harris Faulkner and emily compagno, joining us former n. F. L. Sideline reporter, Michele Tafoya and attorney and retired nypd inspector paul mauro. We also have this, emily, ill get to you on audio in a moment. Before that, this Wall Street Journal columnist Claims Lawfare to take down donald trump. Latest oped reads if democrats limited their initiative to jack smith, conservatives would have absorbed it, however degraded that benchmark, american left never knows when to stop, it is raging gettrump legal assault on every imaginable front. He noted it has backfired politic
Police on the scene seeing backups quickly. Well have travel times for you and a new problem in maryland in ten minutes. Thank you. Developing this morning, the search is on for the person who stabbed two teens at the Wheaton Metro station in the middle of the day molette green is live with the tools investigators are using to catch the suspects. Molette, good morning. Reporter eun, good morning to you. This is where the injuredo Montgomery County police said at the very start they were looking for up to three suspects involved. Theyve been able to identify one suspect so far and they are using whatever was captured on nearby Surveillance Video to be able to identify the other suspects here. The attack on the teen boys, ages 15 and 16, actually happened, we understand in a bus bay here on the west side of the Wheaton Metro station and it was at all times of the day. Someone may have seen something and police are asking you to call them with any information that you might have. The vict
Were going to have a service for him. The d. C. Community is on heightened alert since several suspected cases of ebola last week turned out to be benign. The hospitals are conducting sick drills, sending patients into the emergency room to see how fast they react. Some ambulance crews have privately expressed protocol concerns, but there ross says they handle ebola as they are supposed to handle any infectious disease, with the proper safeguards they are ok. We want our providers and patients in the community to understand this evil is not a huge threat at all. This ebola is not a huge threat at all. And with about 40,000 people a year dying from influenza, he said more than worrying about ebola, people should get a flu shot. Thank you, sam. The cdc is now Training Health workers from across the country heading to west africa to work with ebola patients. The cdc recently developed an intense threeday program in response to the ebola outbreak. The first class and pleaded its training t