Recent civil unrest that we saw in the streets of downtown san jose last month. Or the covid19 pandemic. We also heard from the mayor of san jose, who said back here live. The chief says he will stay on in his current role through december, which is when he expects his replacement to be named. Im chris nguyen, abc7 news. Okay, chris, thank you very much. Now to our efforts to build a better bay area. Education is a very important part of that and one oh of the topics well focus on tonight. Is the start of school is coming up quick. Two weeks for San Francisco. The bay areas Biggest School district. In the capital of silicon valley, thousands of low income students and families will soon have free access to the internet. Its part of an Innovative Partnership being launched between san jose and at t. Chris nguyen filed this story earlier. Reporter in the midst of the Coronavirus Crisis, bridging the Digital Divide is now more important than ever. We have heard too often of our children h
Spoke to the lead of a new testing task force. That the testing space has been a challenging one for us, and i own that, and i have a responsibility as your governor to do better. Governor gavin newsom confirmed over 126,000 people have been tested. And 13,000 of those are still awaiting results. Staggering numbers that led to this announcement. A state partnership with two california universities and a task force. A new partnership with uc davis and uc san diego to create a minimum of 5 to 7 hubs. Reporter leading the covid19 test task force, Paul Markovich president and ceo of blue shield of california, and dr. Charity dean, assistant director of californias Public Health department. Markovich wants to make sure anyone in need of a test gets one. Set a goal to get to 10,000 per day for the next two weeks to 25,000 per day by the end of the month, and by the end of the summer this august the capacity of 50,000. Reporter an increase in testing will hopefully mean a decrease in deaths.
During business hours. Now, your health, your safety, this is this morning big promises straight from Governor Newsom, more he testing for californians and help for medical workers. As of this morning close to 90 people died of coronavirus in the bay area and Santa Cruz County with more than 3,500 confirmed cases. San francisco topping 500 cases. Mend siino coun Mendocino County reported four cases. And weve been plotting the cases on this useful draft to see the trend. This includes the bear aay and surrounding areas with a jump in days starting march 1. Its sunday, april 5th. Im liz kreutz. 24u thank you very much for joining us. We will have much more on the coronavirus in a moment but we want to start a quick look at the Stormy Weather were tracking this weekend. Heres meteorologist lisa argen. Hello it, its certainly been a soaker out there. You see the counterclockwise rotation offshore bringing instability and rain to much of california. We go in closer to American Canyon, up to
Slightly positive territory for some of the averages right now. The dow though is down ten points. About five off the s p 500. 1750 is the level. The nasdaq sitting just above the 4,000 mark off 20. Speaking of moment of truth, twitter with its first Quarterly Results since going public due to hit within the hour. Investors will get their first real look at the numbers. Well see if they justify a stock price thats now up more than 150 since that initial Public Offering here that we remember so well. We will get you those full results right after the bell. And were not finished with earnings either. Disney also reports. A big bellwether for the economy and bob iger will be joining us here on the closing bell as soon as the numbers are released. Twitter and disney, two very Important Companies reporting in this jittery market right now. And lets remind people where we sit. After a series of losses to start out the year and after the worst start to a february in some time, we look a littl
Probably get today. Write down this number, 15,676. 94. Thats what we need for an alltime high on the dow. Especially what we need is a gain of 108 points. Were about 10 points away from that right now. All of this despite a dip in Consumer Spending last month. And Consumer Confidence numbers that were well below expectations. But yet this market continues to power higher. Absolutely. Weve got money moving into equities. Amazing this market is where it is just five years after the financial crisis. Here in chicago, we will be speaki speaking exclusively with hank paulson. Well get reaction to todays breaking news about the deal between jpmorgan and the Justice Department. But it may be coming apart. We to want get his take on that. Then former senator chris dodd and former congressman barney frank are both with me. They spawned the dodd frank regulations of course. As well as securities and Exchange Commissioner Mary Schapiro will be joining us in this hour. After the break ill talk wi