Protection program was set to expire the senate votes to extend it. Today in the bays alex barr and what congress is going to do now. Reporter laura, this was a bit of a surprise that this extension was agreed to last night since theres not often a lot of bipartisan agreement in washington these days. This is one of these issues important enough. Lets be clear whats being extended is the deadline to apply. So now that deadline will be extended until august 8th. So that allows any Small Businesses with fewer than 500 employees that have not yet asked for this aid to jump in and request it. Whats kind of interesting is theres still 130 billion left in the pot to be distributed to Small Businesses. Thats a little surprising because early on this money was just flying out of the coffers and congress had to pass another installment to reinstate the money there. Theres question why theres so much left on the table. Some Small Business owners say they need help and need more help than what th
Dr. Fauci and Governor Newsom. Covid19 is not done with california. The golden state tonight is dealing with a surge in both cases and hospitalizations. Now some are wondering how difficult its going to be to flatten that curve again. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney has more. Reporter Governor Newsom sounding the alarm today. In the past two weeks, covid19 hospitalizations are up 43 . Icu admissions up 37 . If that doesnt change soon, the governor is promising stricter actions statewide. Tomorrow well be making some additional announcements on efforts to use that dimmer switch that weve referred to and begin to toggle back on our stayathome order. Dr. George rutherford, professor of epidemiology at uc San Francisco says several factors are at play here in the bay area. The 1,000 infected prisoners at san quentin, an increase in infections at retirement homes, people letting down their guard during the recent reopenings, and theres this ongoing outbreak in the latinx communities. Reporter
From station. News at 6. Deaths went up 5 yesterday. Hospitalizations went up 3. 3 yesterday. I see you numbers went up 3. 8 percent yesterday total number of positives went up 7. 4 yesterday. Governor newsom says california is not out of the woods yet and that officials are still waiting for key numbers to start trending downwards before the state can consider reopening. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im justine waltman Governor Newsom says while physical distancing is working pulling back too quickly could backfire however tomorrow the governor is expected to update. Us on the states progress on relaxing restrictions. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains. Governor Gavin Newsome wednesday will give the first update on how far california is getting on its road map to lifting stay at home orders when a when you see a little bit of release in the so we can lay out some little is pressure that we i know were all feeling around the stay at home order an
The woods just yet tonight more than 35,000 cases have been confirmed in california. One more than 1300 people have died from covid19 in the u. S. Are that more than 824,000 cases and more than 45,000 deaths and around the world more than 2. 5 million cases have been confirmed. These numbers are according to the Johns Hopkins global coronavirus tracker during his daily Coronavirus Briefing today Governor Newsome began to outline part of phase one of californias plan when it comes to loosening the restrictions put in place because of the virus kron fours Justine Waldman is live in our newsroom tonight she has details just saying. Well pam Governor Newsom says distancing is working pulling back too quickly. Could backfire but tomorrow he will give the very first update on how far california is getting on its road map to lifting the stay at home orders there will be 6 factors to determine how soon the state can ease its restrictions tomorrows update will be specific to one of the key piec
Tomorrow afternoon. Thank you for joining us at 10 on this tuesday night im pam moore and im ken wayne. The governor says hes using 6 factors to determine how soon california can ease its restrictions. They are expanding testing protecting highrisk groups, including Senior Citizens and people and facilities such as Nursing Homes ensuring hospitals have enough meds and supplies to care for patients progress in developing treatments. Ability of schools and businesses to support physical distancing and ability to decide when to reinstitute stay at home orders if needed. Tomorrow the governor says he will be specific to one of the key pieces of his evidence his administration wants to see which requires expanded testing and tracking of the infection. More tests. Will be made available we are seeing a significant increase in our testing remind and well go into this in great detail. Tomorrow and be much more prescriptive in terms of subpopulations and geographic distribution of tests and tes