Grim milestone tonight, 15,000. We are hearing details about a san jose woman who appears to be the nations first coronavirus victim. Reporter friends tell me they cant believe it. A southbay mother and wife who has now become the nations first covid19 death. That was 12 days earlier than the previous case. Patricia dowd of san jose was 57 years old when she died february 6th. This week, a new wave of grieving as many learned their friend tested positive after her death from covid19. ; was absolutely shocked, speechless. Reporter s be steve banner worked with her at research. Her linkedin page shows she was there for 27 years. She was a wonderful friend and colleague. She was warm, engaging, friendly. She was a great teammate, both at lam research and even after work. She was one of those people you like to be around. Reporter friends tell ktvu she was a graduate of st. Francis high school in mountain view, a wonderful, caring person. She became sick in late january with flulike sympto
Normal because members voted in eight separate groups to keep social distancing. Speaker nancy pelosi says the new funding should help more women and minorities, veterans, native americans and Rural Businesses along with hospitals. All of it in interest of Job Retention and first and foremost to address the key issue of health. However, Banking Industry groups say the 310 billion that was added to the paycheck protection act may already be spoken for. They say that money may go to businesses that were already in the pipeline. On wall street a rally faded after a report that gilly gets drug was ineffective as a treatment for covid19. The dow had been up 400 points and ended with a gain of 39 points the nasdaq was down a fraction and the s p lost a point. The Labor Department says another 4. 4 million americans filed for unemployment last week. The new claims bring the total u. S. Job losses to more than 26 million for the coronavirus shutdown. Here in california the four weeks total is
We are also working with the counties all cost the state of health and that was to go further, clarifying on the expectations with the details are in terms of the guidelines. Officials in marin county say they are not ready yet for stage 2. County officials dont feel the preparations to safely reopen can be in place by this friday. They say their plan will be finalized by may 18th, so despite the governor stage 2 announcement tomorrow, it will likely be another two weeks or so before Retail Stores in marin open for curbside pickup. New tonight with the organization that represents hair salons and barbers in california now planning to sue the governor. This comes after state regulators threatened to pull the licenses of any salon violating the shutdown orders. The professional Beauty Federation of california is demanding salons be allowed to reopen, with restrictions. The organizations executive director says it would be much safer than whats going on right now. We are already seeing in
Shortened or extended. When you do go out, you must practice social distancing. Basically stay at least six pete feet away from people, and as rod mentioned, social gatherings are prohibited except for six feet distance. There is a mad rush at the Grocery Store. Were seeing that tonight. Lets bring in ian cull. Tell us what youre seeing. Reporter were at the market in edgewood, but it could be any store in the bay area. This is the store ive been to. The viewers are really reaching out to us. Were going to do a little walkthrough. The pasta aisle is basically empty. You might be able to get some lasagne noodles. Meats mostly out as well. There is a lot of fresh fruit that people seem to be stocking up on, but theyve got a good supply here. Potatoes, running low on those as well, and onions, even, as well. One of the things, though, that theyre running out of a lot is the foezrozen food, the frozen dinners, the pizza, unfortunately, one of my favorites, then the meat as well. This is th
Effective at midnight, a shelter in place order for residents of six counties with on the exceptions for essential reasons. That evening. We have more on that shelter in place. First we want to get to the latest numbers. There is at least 510 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. In the past few minutes, Santa Clara County reported two more deaths bring the total up to eight. Across the united states, there nearly 3500 cases of the coronavirus and 68 people have died. Around the world it has infected more than 180,000 people and killed more than 71. They finally let the port of oakland this morning. The cruise liner is now anchored in the bay between San Francisco and oakland. There still 340 crew members. They will stay on board for the next 14 days under quarantine. 75 medical workers have been brought on board the ship. On wall street, stock had the worst point drop ever. They were down about 12 percent today despite a emergency rates cuts the federal reserve. Today the dow jones lost