Coronavirus Task Force Meeting about issuing a blanket order for the entire country, but mister trump is standing fast saying its up to each state to determine how to handle coronavirus. In every state in this country. First we got to see a governors done with it doing theyve been doing a great job because were close to 90 anyway. States and were talking about. Not in jeopardy. Now i would leave it to the governors. And that decision comes on the same day where we saw the deadliest day in the u. S. During this pandemic 1423 people died today. We have more than 7100 deaths total and 277. 1000 cases in the u. S. New york far away the hardest hit state. There are nearly 100 or the just over 103,000 cases there and nearly 3,000 deaths in new york state and there are new guidelines tonight from the cdc on how americans can protect themselves while continuing social distancing guidelines. Nadia romero has thlatest now from washington. In fridays White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing an
Hit area in our region tonight, and although they have only reported 375 cases. Officials now say that number might actually be in the thousands. Lets get right to the latest numbers right here in the bay area right now Santa Clara County as we mentioned has 375 cases, 16 people have died San Mateo County has 161 cases and one death, San Francisco county 152 cases, contra costa county, 86 cases and one death. Alameda county has 124 cases and today reported its second death from coronavirus Warren County has 47 cases Solano County 24. Sonoma county, 31 cases and one death napa county confirmed its 3rd case of coronavirus today. And as we mentioned Santa Clara County has the most coronavirus cases locally but there may be potentially thousands of more cases that we dont know about yet kron fours rob fladeboe joins us live now working from home on a new order that is concerning getting more testing out there rob. Thats right justine a among the take away is today from the first ever virtu
Unusual sight, San Franciscos high and the shopping district today union square, the streets are mostly empty the stores are boarded up as people stay at home. These clothes to stores and offices represent a loss of jobs and now due to the pandemic huge numbers of people are filing for unemployment benefits. This all comes as lawmakers in Congress Debate how best to help the American People right now there is a trillion relief package on the table but lawmakers have not yet been able to finalize the details when it is passed it is expected to issue direct checks to American Families bailout for the Airline Industry and the billion loan program for struggling Small Businesses as that debate continues on capitol hill, millions of americans are out of jobs. We talked was loree levy with Californias Employment Development Department in sacramento today. She told us her department has been slammed with demand for unemployment claims over the past 2 weeks as of last thursday, the department
Rejected the original version that was introduced monday. They argue about and just focus too much on wall street and did not spend enough money on main street businesses on the health care system. While full details have yet to be released. The breakdown looks like this. So billion for direct payments to individuals and their families billion in Small Business loans. 250 billion and Unemployment Insurance benefits and 500 billion in loans for distressed companies. Now a final senate vote is expected later today. Well thousands of workers who are filing for unemployment are in the Service Industry and most restaurants have been forced to drastically cut their staff as their kitchens closed or transition to takeout and delivery only. But now some businesses are looking to hire more staff for el on polk street in San Francisco says it got slammed with pizza orders over the weekend. And quickly made some changes to meet demand. Business has been you know very very we have one or 2 nights
Largest rescue package in american history. This is not a moment of celebration, but one of necessity. Well this is what a lot of us have been waiting for a while you were sleeping the white house says it has reached a deal with congress for stimulus package to help jolt the struggling economy as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Well Senate Democrats they strongly rejected the original version that was introduced on monday. They argue that it just focus too much on wall street and did not spend enough money on main street businesses and also the health care system. So while full details have yet to be released. The breakdown looks like this. 250 billion for direct payments to individuals and families, 350 billion in Small Business loans, 250 million and Unemployment Insurance benefits and 500 billion and loans for distressed companies. A final senate vote is expected today. And speaking of helping out main street thousands of workers who are filing for unemployment are in the servic