For a total of 25,000 a day by the end of the month. A longterm goal is 60,000 tests a day. Abc7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez live in the newsroom with details of the governors plan. Lyanne . Larry, if you ask me the headline today is clearly that the state will revamp testing. Were going show you some projected numbers in just a few. That will then determine when sectors of our economy will reopen. With that said, a lot of Business Owners and employees are disappointed but not surprised. California hospitals have not experienced the anticipated surge of covid19 patients. Guided by the number of empty hospital beds, governor gavin newsom said he would now allow hospit hospitals to perform elective surgeries. Tumor, heart valve, the need for people to gethe kind of care they need. If it gets delayed, it becomes acute. Any other decision to open parts of our economy will rely on two factor, testing and tracking the virus. The lack of swab testing has been a obstacle. Here are the number
Microphones. Well have an update later on in the newscast. The World Health Organization has called a pandemic. Officials say it underscores the seriousness of coronavirus and that countries need to step up the fight even more. Bringing you back locally, the grand princess cruise ship is still offloading passengers for a Third Straight day at the port of oakland and there are still hundreds of people onboard. Some are getting very anxious and very angry. San francisco has banned large gatherings of more than a thousand people. That means the Golden State Warriors will play tomorrow nights game at chase center without any fans inside. Unser hasan is live with the latest. Reporter when San Francisco first made the recommendation to ban all large gatherings, it was voluntary. Now it is mandatory. That includes all events here at the chase center. Post malone was scheduled next week. The weekend after, springfest. Also it includes the warriors games. So basically the conversation was reall
Held a press conference with mayor libby schaaf andga. Employees to explain. Oak land is close to Travis Air Force base where californians will be taken to be quarantined for 14 days. Finally, its near the Oakland Airport, where International Passengers will be sent home. There will be no contact with the general population in terminals, at the Oakland Airport reporter the governor says oakland wasnt the first choice. We had originally looked at alameda as a preferable site. The old naval station there. Unfortunately, some of the sittisilt issues created concerns. Reporter San Franciscos port was ruled out because its too close to a major population center. We recognize this is a time we must be guided by facts and not fears. Reporter ch oue port of oakland plan, but only learned of the details this morning. She says the city has to help in this time of national emergency, but adds, her residents come first. I will say my questions are not over. I will be continuing to ask them and exp
Announcer now news to build a better bay area from abc7. A frightening new twist to a robbery trend. A man is recovering after he was shot and robbed of his laptop at an oakland bus stop. If comes only weeks after another oakland man was killed during a laptop theft. Abc7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard has our story. I opened the door and heard somebody screaming, somebody help me. I dont want to die like this. Reporter oakland resident bryant heard those cries for help after hearing a single gunshot. He found a man inside this bus shelter at 61st and add line streets. Heed been robbed and shot in the hip. He is a former paramedic. He helped the man until First Responders arrived. Macbook pro the description, the suspect was wearing a mask. He was on his laptop, somebody came up with a mask. Asked for his laptop. Before he could comply or he refused, they shot him. Reporter he works at stanford market across the street. He said the victim is one of his customers. The customer come run i
Clerk this is a reminder to silence all electronic devices. San francisco Fire Commission regular meeting december 13, 2017, and the time is 9 02. [ roll call. ] clerk announcements. The next Fire Commission meeting will not on january 10th, 2018 in city hall in room 416. The Fire Commission will resume their usual meeting schedule in 2018 consisting of the second and fourth wednesdays of the month. Item three, general Public Comment. Members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commissions jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speaker shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or Department Personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. The last of a response by the commissioners or Department Personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Is there any Public Comment . Seei