Airports as well. The details on why. Plus it is the end of the road for california s reopening roadmap in a matter of hours the golden state will be ready for business as covid restrictions. Finally come to an end. And the reopening is where we begin tonight. Welcome to kron 4 news today. I m pam moore of jonathan mccall. Ken wayne has the night off. We re now less than 4 hours away from california, fully reopening from the covid19 pandemic. That move is expected to bring plenty of changes first thing in the morning after more than a year of lockdowns and restrictions horse or issa sesay is live tonight in the city with a look at what you can expect when you wake up tomorrow. Teresa. Well, you can expect a very windy condition, that s for sure. But you can also expect some big changes. This is a big moment for some we ve all been looking forward to this. The changes sweeping affecting virtually every business come june 15th. As california moves past its pandemic restrictions. For exam
this includes the national fish habitat conservation through partnerships provision, a bill i championed. this title establishes a national fish habitat board that supports a successful public-private partnership to restore fish habitat. i would like to thank the ranking member of the natural resources committee, rob bishop, and the ranking member of the subcommittee on water, oceans and wildlife, tom mcclintock. i would also like to to thank my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for their ceaseless effort and commitment to making sure we do everything we can to conserve prork tect and enhance the resources that we are in charge of taking care of. i look forward to continuing to advance other important provisions, but this bill hopefully will be on its way to the president s desk. as co-chair of the chesapeake bay watershed task force i would specifically like to act modge my friends an colleagues in the bay delegation who labored so hard for so long to help clean up o
we re not seeing anything like that today. we have tech stocks that are lifting the nasdaq right now. dow is down about 44 points but the nasdaq looking nice and strong here, up 94 points. the coronavirus pandemic of course is still causing not glitches but massive disruptions in particularly the u.s. meat supply. shortages are now upon us, as stores now limit purchases of beef and pork and chicken to prevent hoarding. that has beyond meat surging after the plant-based meat giant reported better than expected quarterly earnings. that stock up 23%. but its biggest competitor, one-upping beyond s good news. impossible foods and its ceo pat brown are here in a fox business exclusive on his huge deal that he just announced with kroger and how virus hot zones are popping up in meat plants and spurring consumers to make a big change in what they are putting on their dinner table. and as lockdowns linger, more companies are realizing that keeping employees working from home might ac
original projection of 100,000, 200,000 deaths it looks like our mitigation efforts like social distancing might be working the turn around in less than a week is sudden, especially when the death toll keeps surge being, said we re making progress against the pandemic. s&p gained 3.4%. nasdaq climbed 2.8%. people are betting on some return of normalcy perhaps as as soon as next month maybe that s when america could be open for business i have been a whole time big believer in dr. fauci. i ve been a believer since he turned hiv from a death sentence to a manageable lifelong condition, something that seemed inconceivable in the 80s. it s hard to see fauci be more optimistic about the battle against covid-19 let s be clear he didn t say we could stop doing social distancing. he serm certainly didn t say wel go start having parties. he said, quote, now is not the time to pull back, it s the time to intensify that s the caveat. we should be proud of what we re doing and mitigate
the spread of this disease on a mass scale. now both chavez praised varily for stepping up to start this program. varily will be announcing more details about the program tomorrow. it s important to emphasize again that this testing site, this pilot program, is by appointment only. you cannot just come here and get tested. you have to go through the website or through your doctor in order to get seen here and tested. robert, thank you. that s what gov nor newsom was talking about, these mobile testing sites which is so vital in our fight against covid-19. this is a live look at the governor talking. this is a live stream trying to set the tone in what to expect in terms of social distancing. we were listening to the news conference for the past 20 or so minutes during the ellen broadcast, essentially the governor calling for more hospital beds during this crisis. we can see the need for 4,000 additional beds. you get up to 20%, you re closer to 19,000, 20,000 addition