The capacity to detect coronavirus spreading could be the key to opening the country, but the white house and the states are clashing on if there are enough tests to go around. The governors are responsible for testing and i hope they will use the tremendous amount of capacity that we have. President trump says hes putting safety first, but critics say millions of people need to be tested before the nation can truly get back to work tick thank you for joining us tonight, im andre senior. Im Cristina Rendon on peer california has been fortunate to have fewer cases on a lower death count and smaller states. Still, the humans will hear continues to grow peer governor gavin newsom said today the 95 people died in the last 24 hour period. Also today, california sadly surpassed 1000 deaths. There are nearly 6000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the bay area and 196 people have died locally. Six bay area counties are now requiring people to work Face Coverings while out in public. The ru
Briefing, but did announce what he calls a significant change to the states stay at home order. Hospitals cannot resume surgeries not considered emergencies. It does not apply to purely cosmetic cedars. These are surgeries that are scheduled, but also essential. Tumors, heart valves. This comes a week after him build a plan that must be met before the state can get back to business. Among those goals, testing more californians. Which the governor said averaged about 2000 per day at the end of march. 16,000 on average currently with the forecast an average of 25,000 people tested by the end of the month. The minimum being 60,000 per day. Spin he said to me the need many of the testing sites need to swap testing kits from the federal government and during a phone call with President Trump on wednesday he was promised a shipment thats already on the way. He said we will be provided 250,000 swabs next week. He saidin the 3rd week expect to see a substantial increase above the 250,003 the g
Her to breathe. Tonight the challenges some are facing because of these new orders. Also havent had your hair done in a while . The push to reopen salons and barbershops. Thanks for joining us on this friday night. Lets start with that shortage of fresh produce. Safeway employees in the Distribution Center are getting sick with the coronavirus and thats impacting the food supply. Nbc bay areas jean elle has the details for us. Reporter some empty shelves inside Bay Area Safeway Stores have shoppers voicing concern on social media. In San Francisco, some waited in powhaso lets do the rightver chanthing, today. Ow. Line to go shopping for an hour to find limited supplies of some lets stay at home. Lets wash up. Produce, pasta, and butter. There was a lot of vegetables lets always keep our distance please, six feet apart at least. Were gone. Reporter we found yuka at a lets look after ourselves, as well as others. Nearby market picking up what she couldnt find at safeway. It will all be w
The previous four week i was 2. 7 million. This comes as the federal Paycheck Protection Program runs out of money. Thats the program aimed at Small Businesses struggling during the pandemic. The Small Business Administration Says its exhausted the more than 350 billion of funding for emergency loans and will need congress to commit more money to continue lending funds. And while there is optimism rent talks of reopening, some still say its too early. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today he is extending the order they are, meaning all current restrictions and closures in new york will be in effect until may 15. Here in the bay area some new requirements are being implemented. Officials in fremont issued an executive order requiring people to use these coverings in public, that includes visits to Grocery Stores and other essential businesses. Also goes for employees at those places. The executive order is expected to stay in effect for the duration of the local emergency and c
Do one without the other. The guidelines provide a framework for lifting restrictions in three phases based on benchmarks like hospital conditions and a steady decrease in cases. In contrast, some state and local leaders have extended their stayathome orders until may 15. Californias order has no end date. In a call the president reportedly told all 50 governors to call their own shots. Something Governor Newsom said he appreciated. Recognizing that differentiation that exists in persisting terms of the conditions in counties and states across the nation. If they need to remain closed we will allow them to do that. Earlier this week the governor announced he is coordinating with oregon and washington i went to reopen based on their own six bench marks including developing therapeutics and the ability of businesses and schools to support social distancing. Lawmakers, Business Leaders and medical experts have said that the key to reopening is more testing. We will need to broaden still o