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Level best here at kqed newsroom to bring you information about how the virus is impacting the health, unprecedented ways. N today President Trump declared a National Emergency to access up to 50 billion in Disaster Relief to help combat the spread of the coronavirus. And the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. More than 130,000 people have been infted in at least 130 countries, and hospitals grapple with a short blg of masks and testing kits. Theyre on a surge of trying to contain new cases. On thursday, the california of department of heal said gatherings of 200 people or more should be postponeor canceled until the end of march. Joining me is the officer for the Public ....
Wednesday. Everything continuing to march in as advertised. Meaning well get some rain out of this. Temperatures though, upper 50s now low 60s. A little bit below average. Sal is here now and he will talk about this time on his weather. It is actually doing very well today, steve. Now, on fridays sometimes people do work from home or perhaps they work four day weeks because were having a lighter commute. It could be related to just many things. People are staying home for other things. This is a look at interstate 880 north and south. You can see traffic is moving well and at the bay bridge toll plaza we do have a light commute. So, this is going to be hopefully a good day here at the bridge. 6 01. Lets go back to the kes desk. There are now about three dozen coronavirus cases here in the bay area. All nine counties have at least one person who have the illness. Santa clara county has the most. 20 of them. Four are travel related. Nine come from close contact with someone and, the rest ....
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Three People Living in the uc davis dorm are in isolation. One of them being tested for the virus while the other two at this point are showing no symptoms. 8400 people in all are being monitored in california. Meanwhile, federal Health Employees were improperly trained to deal with the coronavirus. That includes some workers stationed at Travis Air Force base. The employees did interact with americans in quarantine. That california grappled with the first case of community coronavirus. That woman is there hospitalized. Reporter thats right. And the folks here at the Uc Davis Medical Center say they are committed to providing that patient the best care possible. Meanwhile, state Officials Say that ca ....
Clouds will be with us. Mostly cloudy today. Combination of cloud cover and temps slightly below average which is a rarity lately. Sals here now and last time was the bay bridge. I think this time it is good id say its a nicelooking commute. Hopefully it will stay this way. Well keep our fingers crossed here. You can see traffic is moving along very well on 880 and if youre driving to the bay bridge toll plaza, it looks light so far. Well see at 5 30. That will be the real deal when we test. Its 5 01. Lets go back to claudine. New this morning, one man is in custody after leading officers on a high speed chase. You can see the chase going on right there. The chase ended up wrapping up with the suspects car with front end wheel damage. The crash finally happening on interstate 80 in richland. A homeless person was staying there but was not hurt. Speeds in the chase reached more than 100 miles an hour. Our time now, just about 5 02. Later today we expect test results from the coronavirus ....