Director of national intelligence. Watch online on seesmic the oracle or listen on the free cspan radio app. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced monday the state legislature will debate a bipartisan proposal to help Small Businesses during the pandemic. The governor was joined by state officials who announced a new app to help with state covid19 Contract Tracing efforts and to provide an update on covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations. This runs 40 minutes. Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are
Good afternoon, minnesota and good afternoon to our reporters. For those watching or listening at home, we are pulling reporters. Will be receiving questions through many of them. I will try to remember to reiterate and repeat the question and then answer it. This last week has been tough. There is no other way to put it. Our numbers are unrelenting in our hospitalizations. You have seen record set in terms of cases, hospitalizations, icus and unfortunately deaths. Our hospitals and First Responders are deriving everything are doing everything they possibly can. There are reasons to be optimistic over the horizon with a vaccine. There are reasons to be optimistic now that we have new therapeutics. There are also reasons to be optimistic because the data shows if we change our behaviors and take some of the mitigation efforts, there is a cascading effect that keeps people from being infected, keeps people out of the hospital, which saves lives. It is what we asked last week. I want to b
The viewers. There theme is unity, and when im watching tonight, what im most going to be wer looking fo, can they bring the Democratic Party together, which is what they are hoping to do with the speeches tonight. They have everybody from pay new york governor, something of a moderate, andrew cuomo, doug jones from alabama come all the way to burning centers Bernie Sanders, and john kasich. I want to see if theres any sort of interparty squabbling, as the case may be, given how big of a tent the Democratic Party is today and how joe biden and Kamala Harris are trying to bring everybody together. I think its going to be a big task. The big question is for what . Are they against President Trump or are they for something . I think thats exactly right. One thing that they do agree on from all sides of the party is that they want to get rid of donald trump, remove have power office. But i think your question is on point. Can they agree to what comes next, should biden win. I was struck by
Going to be a little bit of activity today. Yesterday, was san jose, Santa Cruz Mountains amenta headed up towards the peninsula. 40s and 50s today, mix of sun and clouds today. Every bay area county now has confirmed coronavirus cases. The first to cases are now confirmed by the department of health to more deaths in Santa Clara County thats a total of 10 in that county, more deaths than any other bay area county, they are now 302 confirmed coronavirus cases in Santa Clara County, the highest number in the northern part of the state. They are preparing for a surge of patients as testing becomes more available. There is already a plan to turn the Convention Center into a temporary medical facility where patients would be treated for other conditions including car crashes and heart attacks. County Health Officials are thanking people for helping during the health crisis, they say they are grateful for people who been contacting their doctors before going to the emergency room and county
Hot one today, especially got a couple triple digits and therefore inland areas. So much like this weekend. Stay hydrated. Find some cool spots to get to this afternoon. Were sitting this morning. Its actually very mild and very clear to be starting for most areas. Your view outside of the east bay hills, not a lot of fog in this perspective. Only a couple spots you can see out there in the distance towards the golden gate where we are seeing visibility falling pretty significantly fogs packed right through the golden gate this morning. Now temperatures range anywhere from the 50s in pacifica in San Francisco to the 70s in livermore. And brett would so fairly wide range. But most of us are on the mild side of things to kick off your monday later on today. Right back to the heat is james and darya mention triple digits for a few inland areas. Some 80s right along the bay shore. Those details are to come. All right, john, thank you for that. Lets get you moving on a monday morning. Great