Reporter yeah, weve been here all day keeping an eye on things. Relief among the passengers who have gotten off the ship but there are hundreds, thousands still onboard the ship. Theyre getting increasingly frustrated being stuck on board. Theyre worried about pets at home, jobs, businesses, and they really dont have any idea where theyre going yet. Now we are completely in the dark. They havent told us when were getting off the ship. They havent told us where were going. Reporter Carolyn Wright from santa fe, new mexico, is at her breaking point and she said shes worried about the disembarkation process, sending this photo of the herding of passengers not being kept six feet apart as recommended. People have taken control of our lives, are treating us like numbers. Reporter in this sweeping drone 7 shot of the grand princess, you can see the tents and vehicles are still there dockside as people continue to exit the ship. Passengers were disembarked starting at 8 00 a. M. With busloads
Package to see what the white house wants to lead on. Paid sick leave is something the white house floated here as well as temporarily targeting tax relief for Certain Industries. That is another thing. Senator Chuck Grassley that is a big thing for him. Representative matt gaetz was actually told later today, that he has to quarantine himself. You see the president there going up air force one in florida. Line him is representative matt gaetz. He was told on air force one that he had to isolate himself because he came in contact with that person at cpac. That is exactly what happened. Matt gaetz sat in a different portion of the plane. No one else was with him, isolating himself. Others, representative doug collins, senator ted cruz as well as representative azar or gosar, im sorry, have all quarantined themselves because of the person they came in contact with at cpac there. States, ohio, new york, latest to declare emergencies related to this. The Port Authority director of new york
Well keep digging for answers and come back with them as we have them. Julian glover, abc 7 news. Getting people off the grand princess cruise ship is taking longer than expected. This morning some passengers are still onboard and others had to wait on charter buses before they got to go. Amy hollyfield joins us in oakland with that part of the story. Good morning, amy. Good morning, jobina. Hard to imagine there are more than 1,000 passengers still stuck on this ship. And many of them say they are tired of being onboard. They are ready for land. The ship got here on monday. Here we are on wednesday. But unloading it has been a slow, tedious process. Health care workers are screening everyone and then determining where they need to go. A military base for quarantine, a flight back to their country, a hospital, so, organizing everyone is taking a lot of time. We talked to some people who are still onboard. They are sick of being there and they are really sick of the food. I think the ma
Microphones. Well have an update later on in the newscast. The World Health Organization has called a pandemic. Officials say it underscores the seriousness of coronavirus and that countries need to step up the fight even more. Bringing you back locally, the grand princess cruise ship is still offloading passengers for a Third Straight day at the port of oakland and there are still hundreds of people onboard. Some are getting very anxious and very angry. San francisco has banned large gatherings of more than a thousand people. That means the Golden State Warriors will play tomorrow nights game at chase center without any fans inside. Unser hasan is live with the latest. Reporter when San Francisco first made the recommendation to ban all large gatherings, it was voluntary. Now it is mandatory. That includes all events here at the chase center. Post malone was scheduled next week. The weekend after, springfest. Also it includes the warriors games. So basically the conversation was reall
President trump thank you very much. We just attended a very important Task Force Meeting on the virus that everybody is talking about all over the world. No matter where you go. Thats whats on peoples minds. We are going to take care of and have been taking care of the American Public and the american economy. We are going to be asking tomorrow, were seeing the senate, were going to be meeting with house republicans, Mitch Mcconnell and everybody, and discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief, substantial relief, very substantial relief. Thats a big number. Were also going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting help so that they can be in a position where theyre not going to miss a paycheck. Be working with companies and small companies, large companies, a lot of companies so that they dont get penalized for something thats not their fault. Its not their fault, its not our countrys fault. This is something we were thrown into and were going to handle it and we have been