Of care that they deserve. If it becomes delayed, it becomes acute. Reozone watch willing rely on two factors, testing and tracking the virus. The lack of swab testing has been a major obstacle. Here are the numbers. In march, california was conducting on average 2,000 tests a day. As of april 14th, that number increased to 10,000. Today the number has grown to 16,000 tests a day. The goal by the end of this month is to have 25,000 tests done every day. But newsom said the biggest challenge lies ahead. He wants 60 to 80 thou tests done on any given day. A phone conversation with President Trump an hour before his press conference gave newsom some reassurances. The president secured and gave me the confidence that we will receive just this week a minimum of 100,000 swabs. There are 261 core testing sites in california. Any expansion of these sites will rely on the equipment and supplies the state receives. The governor gave no indication when businesses like barbershops, nail salons, or
Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Hello and welcome, everyone. Im michael holmes, and we continue our breaking News Coverage of israel at war. And there are growing signs this hour that an Israeli Military Ground Operation into gaza could get under way at any moment. After a week of air strikes and artillery aimed at hamas inside gaza and a hastily ordered evacuation of up to a million civilians from gaza city, israel declared on saturday that it is ready to open a new phase in te war with a focus on, quote, significant Ground Operations. Earlier israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met soldiers on the front lines. You see him there offering words of support, telling them to be prepared. Also on saturday iran warned farreaching consequences if the israeli attacks dont stop. The Iranian Foreign minister met with a senior hamas official for the First Time Since the fighting began, and there is deep concern that iran and its proxies might try to escalate the conflict especially al
Its a dynamic situation. We continue to track everything going on not only in beaumont, texas where we have serious operations taking place for search and rescue in life sustainment. We have had a number of evacuations around the Chemical Plant last night. We were able to evacuate about a mile and a half radius around the Chemical Plant to make sure people were safe in anticipation of any problems. We continue to push the lifesaving operations. We are continuing to evacuate people out of areas where the rivers have not receded yet. In some cases, today and tomorrow, they may be cresting. The Shelter Mission is the biggest battle we have now as well. We have rolled out a tremendous number of assets to support the lifesustaining mission and shelters. Shelters are never an ideal situation. We are throwing everything we can at them. Its not just from the federal government standpoint but here again, his neighbor helping neighbor. We had a determined this meant of people stepping up to volu
From the darkest moments. In the midst of this historic storm of the people of texas have responded with their very best. This could well be texas finest hour. Drain to the damage could wreak havoc on the busy travel season. Gas prices hitting a twoyear high as the nations largest field pipeline runs from texas all the way into new jersey, new york city even with temporarily shutting down its main fuel line from texas to new york because of outages. Turning to tax reform, President Trump calling on congress to get to work when they return to washington next week despite the push to many polls say americans are not confident lawmakers will get anything done. Futures are showing this in your market. Dow futures up 72 points. Much to miss them. Weve got the good reading on secondquarter Economic Growth coming in at 3 yesterday. The dow up 27 points yesterday and had he not at least the start of the last day of trading in august. Europe stocks higher across the board. Case in england, fran
A unified effort to help our island of partners as well as our ust partners to achieve their response and recovery goals, starting with the eyelids the goal to stabilize the Virgin Islands and puerto rico to make sure we are addressing all lifes safety and lifesustaining issues and we are in good position. Theres great communication with both governors in the Island Community and the objectives are clear, emergency, power restored power, life saving and lifesustaining commodities, emergency can medication and security. Those are the goals we are supporting and this is a massive effort because of logistical nature of accessing islands, we are very proud to have our partners with the department of defense. They have the provided over six different navys ships in the area that will operate today to help us accomplish helped our island partners, which their goals. Moving on, obviously Hurricane Irma continues to be a threat to devastate the us, either florida or some southeastern states. T