Physically in the classroom, but we hope and expect our learning every day. The issues of equity, the issues of access and availability, laptops, computers, screens. Issues of connectivity as it relates to internet and broadband. All of those issues, vaccines, even on the natural but particularly under the circumstances made more acute and more foundational in terms of our ability to not just promote the promise of education during this time but to actually deliver on it. Ive been very proud of the work that many folks have done from the superintendent of Public Education to the president of the state school board, linda darling hammond, both of which are on the phone today but ive also been very blessed by someone that i know very well, and thats my wife, the first partner of the state of california. She, in partnership with members of my team, ben cheetah and others, have been working hard over the last few weeks to build on the announcement we made a few weeks ago about those 100,000 free wifi hot spots that google has committed to rolling out throughout the state of california and the 4,000 chrome books they made available to build on the work that apple has been doing. 800 School Districts, 10,000 ipods that they have donated. And to do even more to meet the needs of millions of californians that simply dont have access. Jen has been working the phones. Shes had good days. Like some of us. Some days havent been as fruitful. Companies, large and small, individuals that have made small contributions, some large and philanthropy and foundations and a whole package we wanted to roll out today that i think will shine a brighter light on our capacity to deliver and moreover, i think reinforce the need, certainly to do more. So with that in mind, let me introduce the first partner of the state of california, jen siebel newsom. Mrs. Newsom so i am excited to be here today to help announce some fabulous commitments from the business and philanthropic communities to help close the educational divide. Like so many parents across the state, i had a pit in my stomach when i watched the governor stand here and told our daughter she wouldnt be going back to school this spring. We have two with diagnosed learning differences. Distance learning can be a challenge, to say the least, and can be hard to tackle their most daunting challenges while taking Conference Calls and zoom meetings in between lesson plans, monitoring their progress and helping them work through math problems while trying to compose thoughtful emails or different work strategies given the new norm. Lets just say some days have been a major struggle. Im constantly having to remind myself to breathe. But every day there are lessons where i learn something about them as individuals and us as a family. Most of the time, though, im having to remind myself to stay calm and carry on, no matter the stress and anxiety that comes my way. But, of course, i know that as hard as this has been for me, it can only be that much harder for kids and families who do not have the same resources that we do. I wouldnt give up the opportunity for Distance Learning for anything. To that, our family has pretty good Internet Access at home despite my technical challenges, and we can access a treasure trove of free online Resources Available for our childrens use. We have laptops for my older children. Albeit, one is on its last leg, and we can learn with full bellies and full hearts. But for too many california kids, this is simply not the case. In fact, one in five lack connectivity or an appropriate device for remote instruction. And as a first partner of california, i feel an incredible responsibility towards these kids and their parents who are doing everything that they can to keep their families housed and safe and seeing to it they have food on the table, all while ensuring their kids continue to learn. The fear these parents have that their children will fall behind without Internet Access and devices is very real. In fact, two weeks ago, a survey of parents found that 50 of the lowincome families and 42 of families of color in california are worried about Distance Learning because they dont have a personal device at home. So to all of these families, i want you to know that youve been on the governors and my mind every day since this crisis started and i want you to know that we have your back and well continue to fight for you. A few weeks ago, as the governor mentioned, he issued a call to action for companies to meet this moment and help close the Digital Divide starting with a pledge from google of 4,000 chrome books. In the weeks since, a few colleagues and i reached out to countless individuals and companies asking them to dive deep into their pockets and see what they can do for californias most vulnerable students. I have been so moved by the generosity and the willingness to step up and help close the states Digital Divide. When some of them have already maxed their giving across the country and around the world. Because of these commitments, hundreds of thousands of families will cross the Digital Divide, including 70,000 californian students who will receive laptops, chrome books, and tablets starting this week. That means hundreds of thousands of california students can continue to learn online and become the leaders we know they are meant to be and that california needs them to be. So i want to give thanks to all of those who contributed to make this possible and a special thanks to businesses like sprint, tmobile, amazon, h. P. , verizon, and zoom. Along with tremendous gratitude for individual commitments from folks like jack dorsey, ann and john doerr, Chan Zuckerberg initiative, signy, and so many others. We all know that education is fundamental to opportunity, and so our mission will not end until every child in california has what they need to continue learning while physically distanced. This pandemic should not stand in the way of california students reaching their potential and realizing their dreams. So once again, thank you to all of you who have stepped up and helped us create a culture of me to we in california. And i especially want to thank linda darlinghammond and president of californias board of education and tony thurmond, along with our superintendent, and chief deputy cabinet secretary for the governor, for their incredible support on this. And finally, i want to thank the 40 million californians who are stepping up in tremendous ways to meet this moment. We know this time is incredibly challenging, but we will get through this together. Onward, california. Thank you. Gov. Newsom thank you, jen. Again, i want to thank the partnership and teamwork that is demonstrable in not only the work that the first partner has done but the superintendent of Public Education and the state school board, all of those individuals, there are many others that we could have listed, i want to also express gratitude this was a twoweek sprint to create the opportunity to provide tens of thousands of additional units, laptops, chrome books, computers, ipods and the like. We continue to need to do much, much more. Ill talk a little bit about what the Public Utilities commission will be doing to that end. A little bit about some partnerships we have here in the city of sacramento in a moment, but i wanted to express my deep gratitude, as jen just did, to the superintendent of Public Education for all of his hard work and his staffs diligence and focus to further this collective cause. Id like to ask the superintendent to say a few words here today. Mr. Thurmond thank you, governor newsom, thank to the first partner. Thank you, all, californians. I want to start off by thanking the governor for this call to action and to all those who have responded to that call and to those who will continue to respond to that call even after today. I want to thank the first partner for her countless calls and her advocacy to reaching out to so many individuals and companies and others who can help and who youll hear about today who have in fact helped and appreciate the First Partners comments about the importance of our parents who are standing in the gap. Theyre working alongside our educators in support of our students. I want to thank our state board of education president , linda darlinghammond who have burning up the phone to foundations, who worked closely with us and the governor and the governors staff to really pull together in every sector help where we can. I do want to thank the governors staff. You heard reference to ben cheetah, who has been a great partner, and many others. I want to thank the California Department of education staff who worked alongside the first partner and also our state board president to help make this happen. In particular, mary nicely from the California Department of education, whos been our point person, literally fielding calls and emails day and night about how we ove devices and devices are now moving to get to School Districts into the hands of our students. Grateful set of thanks to our foundations, companies and individuals who you will hear from today who made contributions to get us started on this path. Again, just want to give the thanks to my entire team at the department of education who literally surveyed nearly every one of the 1,000 School Districts in this state and that was done in partnership with our association of administrators and our county superintendents to help us get that information. Many of our legislators sending us information to define the need as youll hear it today. I want to thank my staff who have literally been on the phone with School Districts verifying those needs and those calls. There is over 1,000 School Districts. Grateful for the california Public Utilities commission. Youll hear about creative ways the state of california is leading with public finances, with public dollars to make sure that students can have a laptop or a chrome book or a tablet and to make sure they can have access to a hot spot in their home. Very Creative Work on the part of the governor, the governors staff, the department of finance, and our staff at the p. U. C. We know this is a great start, but our work must continue, and were committed to continuing to work with the governor and the governors staff and with our business and others in the state to do so. In that respect, many of you may have heard that weve created a task force on closing the Digital Divide. Simply put, we talk all the time about how we must meet the needs of our students during this pandemic, and having the tools to learn from a distance are critical. Nothing replaces the importance of a great teacher, but these tools connect our kids to teachers and our kids have to have them, and our Digital Divide has happened and gone on longer than this pandemic, and its been something weve dealt with for decades. So im grateful for the leadership of our governor and our state board president and others who join me in believing that as we respond the needs of our students to learn in this pandemic that we must do so in a way where we once and for all close the Digital Divide and make sure that all of our students have the tools that enhance their success and that give them the best chances to be successful. Im proud to be cochairing that task force with senator lava. There are certain people youll hear from today that joined this task force that live in the areas that have major issues with connectivity. This will create a blueprint on how to close the divide and a timeline and continue the work going forward. And this task force will have its first meeting this afternoon at 4 00 p. M. , and people can follow it on facebook live. Again, great thanks for the good morning for making this call to action and asking those who are meeting the moment. We look forward to working with those who will continue to meet the moment. Anyone can help. You can help with the task force and go to donate cde. Ca. Gov. I will send it back to the governor and thank you for making this great call to action. Gov. Newsom thank you for your hard work and diligence and thank you, again, for extending an important part of the narrative today is were not done. This is the beginning of a process. We have a lot more work to do. Not just to close the Digital Divide in the context of this pandemic but more broadly, decades in the making, weeks now of intensive focus and unprecedented private sector support. But were going to need to quadruple on what were doing in order to get to where we ultimately all need. We recognize where we need to go. That includes, by the way, a lot of work this summer. Linda is available on the phone. Will take questions on thoughts around Summer Learning and opportunities that extend beyond the technical end of this school year. But we want to provide what we can in those hotspots and provide these supports so we can continue to extend that learning time even though the schools are closed. Learning and education must continue. Distance learning can be operable in the state of california. It just needs to have an equity lens, rural, small districts, and those from a socioeconomic perspective that deserves our support. Progress here today and also progress tomorrow and over the course of the next number of months. I referenced some of that progress in advance because of what you see. Rob will be here talking about a teleconnect effort through the p. U. C. Were setting aside 25 million to advance that effort. Thats, again, hotspots, wifi, addressing the issue of Digital Divide. They will supplement the work of apple rather, google and others in that space. In addition to that, theyre putting 5 million, total package 30 million at the p. U. C. To get additional chrome books, ipads, excuse me, ipods that i referenced earlier, to allow people to do the Distance Learning that were promoting at this moment. Some progress we wanted to share with you in that space. Also, progress as it relates to partnership at the cities level. The city of sacramento is looking at a proof of concept. Theyll be rolling out in the next number of days, i think right before may 1, theyre going to be converting seven school buses and making them mobile hotspots to provide access. If that proof of concept is successful, well roll that out more broadly throughout the state of california. Its also an expression of appreciation, not just c. T. A. And our teachers, but to those out there that also deserve enormous amount of support at this moment. Those are janitors, those are our bus drivers, those are the custodial staff, so many support staff that make our School System work. Its so essential and critical as well to make the Distance Learning work in addition to our extraordinary teachers. And so i just want to express that appreciation to all of you as well. So thats Broad Strokes where we are. Happy to answer questions in a moment. Let me briefly just give you an update as we do on our daily briefings on the total number of lives tragically lost, issues related to hospitalization, i. C. U. s, updates on a few other issues and, of course, happily answer any questions. We sadly lost 42 additional lives last night. Over the weekend, we crossed that threshold of over 1,000 people that have lost their lives. And now as of this moment, 1,208 human beings in the state of california have lost their lives due to covid19. So, again, expression of deep empathy and recognition that these, again, are not statistics. These are human beings. Stories, journeys, each and every one of them precious and our heart goes out to their family and loved ones. As it relates to the broader issue of i. C. U. s and issues related to our hospitals, we are at 1. 9 above where we were yesterday in the total number of hospitalizations. About 2. 8 above where we were yesterday in number of i. C. U. Patients. Again, hospitalizations are beginning to flatten but still growing. And were seeing i. C. U. s bouncing back and forth. Modest decreases, modest increases. So, again, progress is being made. You are bending the curve. Youre beginning to flatten the curve, but it is still nonetheless rising. Deaths continue to rise, hospitalization numbers modestly continue to rise, and i. C. U. Numbers beginning to flatten but were not seeing that downward trend we need to see in order to provide more clarity on that road map to recovery, which we rolled out last week. This wednesday, we will roll out more details around those six categories in our roadmap to recovery, and youll start to see behind the curtain exactly where we believe we are in realtime in terms of our ability to begin to toggle, again, not a light switch but more of a dimmer to adjust our stayathome orders. They remain in effect for good reason. The numbers bear that reason and it also bears consideration that those numbers, again, are an aggregate and dont reflect the spread of this virus in almost every part of the state of california. I say it to make the point. When you look at the top 15 counties impacted by the virus, they include tulare county, fresno county, they include orange county. They include riverside county. They include every part of this state and its just incumbent upon all of us to recognize that. Those are just in the top 15. Many of those in the top 10 impacted by covid19. The incredible importance that we place on continuing our physical distancing orders. I know how impatient people are but, again, i just cannot express more gratitude for the incredible and heroic work all of you have done to soften the blow of this virus so far in the state of california. Again, lets not dream of regretting of pulling the plug too early. Were going to lean in. We are leaning in. I am as eager as you to answer the question when. On wednesday, youll have more clarity, again, when we start to look at all of those six areas that are part of that transformation, rather, part of that process to begin to transition into a new phase of this pandemic. I want to also just let folks know on friday, we put out the list by facility. Its not a complete list. We got 80plus percent. I think its 83 of all of the facilities, 1,224 Skilled Nursing facilities. Well get the rest of that information out but we provided them by facility. We are doing the same today to broaden the appropriate inquiries that were receiving for our other adult and senior care facilities. Remember, 1,224 Skilled Nursing facilities in addition to that, we have 7,461 facilities in our adult and senior care centers. Some of them are just one or two people. Others four, five, or six. Those facilities with more than six will be the first information patients, that is, the First Tranche of information that we provide by facility and type. Well also include in that number the number of deaths, not just the number of facilities, number of staff, and number of patients impacted by covid19. As soon as we get that information, i want to make that Information Available to you. Weve done it, again, for snifs. We want to do it more broadly for the rest of the system. The depth data, we now have it as it relates to those other facilities. That is something forthcoming this afternoon that i want to preview and also just want to extend, again, a preview of sorts on the work that we are, again, doing on wednesday that includes updating on tracing, on tracking, on isolation, on quarantine, and on testing as well. Were still making progress in the testing space. We have a task force that many of you know we convened weekplus ago. We had goals, very prescriptive goals to significantly increase from just 2,000 tests a day at the end of march to get to 10,000 by april 14. Weve been able to exceed that april 14 number in terms of the daily total of tests conducted. Want to get to 25,000 by the end of this month, and then significantly increase those numbers by multiples in may and june. Well be updating you on wednesday. Again, its part of the six categories, but well be highlighting the category of testing, tracing, tracking, isolating, and quarantine in that wednesday briefing so that you will be able to get a sense of where we are, get some confidence in our capacity on the tracing to build that army, not just of volumes, but volunteers but those at the county level that are currently employed in that space and build off that workforce and their unique expertise and complement their work by scaling it by thousands and thousands of others that will be necessary to ultimately advance the goals that we set forth just in that one category of the six. Again, on that roadmap to recovery. So with that, were happy to answer any questions. Just remind you, we open up the questions, that we have linda darlinghammond, president of state school board on the line to answer them in addition to the superintendent of Public Education. My wife is always available to answer questions. In addition to rob osbourne who is also available on the line at the cpuc. Talk more about his program. We have dr. Ghaly here as well. Always available in a moments notice to answer any questions you may have. Univision sacramento. Last week you mentioned undocumented workers are going to get financial help. Were getting a lot of calls from viewers who are wondering which organizations are going to give up this money, how theyre going to give it out and when . Gov. Newsom were contracting with c. B. O. s throughout the state of california. Each will receive a minimum of 5 million. Others will receive substantially more resources because of the partnership, not only with the state but the partnership with philanthropy that we announced. We put out a frequently asked question list thats available on the covid19. Ca. Gov website which is available in spanish, not just english. We will be putting that process together on an active basis, meaning updating, rather, that site on an active basis, as the distribution of those funds are made real. All of that should be happening in realtime, those Disaster Assistance funds, we set out to get out as quickly as possible. 500 for an individual. Up to 1,000 per household, distribute it through the organized network of communitybased organizations so no privacy concerns are breached as it relates to providing personal information to the state of california and the fear people have as it relates to the public charge of which this will not impact or affect and more broadly about deportation. So thats the framework. That information is available on that site, and we will update you in realtime more specifically about which c. B. O. s and points of access to make it easier for individuals and we look forward to your partnership in helping us get that information out there. Karma, fox 40. Hi, governor. Thank you. Couple of questions. First, with respect to the information about covid19 along racial lines. I believe it was late last week we first started to see those disparities but hadnt yet werent yet apparent but showing that africanamerican disproportionately affected. Also, some data with regards to pacific islanders. And so given that the numbers are now starting to reflect the national trends, what specifically is being done to address the disparities within those groups . Additionally, with regards to testing, i heard what you said just working to expand testing across california. Can you address disparities between different municipalities . For example, its much easier to qualify to get a test to a test in los angeles than sacramento. Even with all the symptoms and preexisting conditions are still being denied because they dont meet the criteria . Gov. Newsom we are working to aggressively work to address the disparities. Its one of the principles, Core Principles of the task force is to focus on disparities, disparities as they manifest in different forms. Let me be specific about what i mean. There are racial and ethnic disparities, socioeconomic disparities but also geographic disparities as it relates to Rural Communities and as it relates to across parts of the states, even in urban centers which are historically underserved. So the purpose of this task force is to define those areas. In fact, today, they provided me a heat map with every one of these areas where what i would refer to as a testing desert in the state. And then strategies around that to address those issues. We do it by time. Meaning, is it a 30minute commute, a 60minute commute . How can we break this down . You will be hearing on wednesday new announcements specifically targeted at our communities from a geographic lens on how to get more testing sites out there to address these issues. That leads into the first part of your last question. Here are the newest numbers. The numbers radically changed from weeks ago, the disparities were even present then. The latino community, 30 of those who tested positive are within the latino community. 39 of the deaths. Rather 31 , forgive me. 40 tested positive, 31 have sadly died. And it relates to the asian community. It is roughly along the lines that we have seen from day one, 13 and 16 . 13 of the population being impacted, 16 passing away. 6. 8 have tested positive for covid19, but this is the area where you are correct. The 11 of the deaths in the past, its now closer to 12 . So, 6. 8, 7 , 12 of the deaths, thats the area of particular concern that is being highlighted. And dr. Angell is here to talk more about the numbers and address those numbers. But she and i have had long conversations about this. She is prepared to explain it in language that is less political and more from a health frame and she is right here. I think that will empathize exactly what we are doing about those disparities. Dr. Angell thank you so much for this question. This is an incredibly important area. We know that any time we have an emergency, or some very Impactful Health issues, that those communities who have had the hardest time with the burden of health, poor health, are uniquely affected by it. This covid19 response is exactly the same with that. And these numbers are what we are seeing right now. The speak to it specifically, we know communities of color have a higher burden of illness. That is a reflection of poverty and racism and other things that we know have resulted in an unequitable distribution of disease. We know covid also uniquely increases the risk for death and populations with higher rates of asthma, of diabetes, of cardiovascular disease, and we know they are more unique in these committees. The kinds of responses we need help those communities affected by other social conditions. The state and the governor have laid out since the beginning a number of interventions from the beginning that will address these communities and make sure they are receiving resources that help them take time off if they are ill, and be able to also support their families at the time of greatest need. We are working closely with our urban areas in particular. We know some of these areas are more highly concentrated. Let me just say that it is not just about the endpoint of deaths. The inequities these communities experience start much earlier. They start from challenges in seeking care early and getting the care they need. We have policies directly related to this. It also relates to inequities that exist when people to seek care. It relates to issues related to it relates to issues related to testing. And every step along the way we are looking carefully at these issues to make sure we help address these inequities and take on these inequities we are seeing in Health Outcomes as well when it comes to ovid19. Gov. Newsom so these are the deeper systemic issues that the state has been leaning in on precovid19, committed to doing more as a relates to Racial Justice issues, Economic Justice issues, and foundationally are the answers to why. It is also important to note, particularly with the black community, how many younger members have been impacted and ultimately have lost their lives. That is also a subset of this that we are deeply concerned about and deeply focused on as well. I will be meeting with the black caucus via zoom Conference Call this afternoon. I have an africanamerican advisory i will be meeting with fter that. This is the top agenda item, and we will continue to advance more perceptive strategies above and beyond what we were doing precovid19 crisis that extend into this crisis, and obviously need to be highlighted as we move out of this crisis as ell. Reporter good afternoon. Thank you very much for your time today. Appreciate it. Wanted to ask about the students who will be receiving laptops and chromebooks starting this week. Any Additional Details you can provide on that rollout, and the numbers of devices . And will those also include wifi hotspots . Gov. Newsom as you know, we announced a partnership with google for 100,000 hotspots. Those will start rolling out the first week of may. That is a massive procurement, nd a massive logistics effort. The first week of may specifically, as a relates to googles announcement. Google has already distributed their chromebooks, and now they are being distributed from our Regional Centers on to, rather into over 79 rural and what we refer to as lees. Ost books are being restricted distributed chrome books in realtime. I referenced the ipads from apple, 10,000. They worked directly with 800 School Districts on that logistics effort. I think they have made public aware specifically those have one. As it relates to the broader procurement, its over 70,000 units of laptops, surface pros, lenovo, chromebooks, so each and every one of those individuals and groups has provided and procure different units, different equipment. And all of those we will make public. All of them will be part of this press release that we will put out right after the conclusion of this press conference. Samantha solomon, abc 10. Reporter hi. I have two questions. First, hundreds of people are gathered outside the capital right now to protest the lockdown and demand california reopen for businesses. This is frustration by personal Economic Hardship and job loss for a lot of these people. What do you want to say to these protesters specifically . And second, the chp granted a permit for this gathering outside the capital, with the original applicants saying there ill be 500 participants. Why would the chp granted a permit for the gathering of 500 people during this time of social distancing . Law enforcement agencies say theyve enforced this Public Health order. Gov. Newsom i will leave that to chp to answer, and we will get back to you specifically on that. My understanding is he protest that chp has supported has ocial distancing, physical distancing, that was allowable on the basis of people being in their vehicles and not congregating as a group. But i will ask our chp spokesperson to get back to you on the details of whatever it is they may have provided in terms of authorization. As a relates to the issue of protest, i will say what i have said on saturday, i will say what i have said last week. If you are going to protest, practice physical distancing. If you are going to protest and express your right of free speech, do so anyway that protects not only your health, but the health of others. I deeply understand peoples anxieties. I lead todays remarks by acknowledging not only the anxieties of people that may be actively protesting, but i imagine the anxieties of 40 million californians who are actively participating and advancing our stayathome orders that save lives and has made california a healthier place than some of our original models had projected. But we must have a healthfirst focused if we are ultimately going to come back conomically. Making a precipitous decision aced on politics and frustration that puts peoples lives at risk, and ultimately sets back because of Economic Growth and economic sets back the cause f Economic Growth. I hope this can be shared by the protesters as well. There are many other parts of the globe precipitously did move forward by opening up their economies again because of that frustration, only to see that they had to pull back again, singapore being an example of that, components of what china has opened up they have now closed again for that reason. So, look, we are eager, we share exactly the same desires and goals to reopen the economy and to address all of the systemic challenges and help support those who are struggling, those most in need. But the way we do that, the way we know to do that, is primarily based upon where the virus is at any given point, and whether or not it is being transmitted, and whether or not we are seeing a reduction in transmissions, a reduction in hospitalizations, a reduction in the number of icus. Those are the determinants. Science, health, will be the determination. But the reason last week we made public this roadmap to recovery, it is to let folks know we are deeply focused on what that reopening looks like. We just want to do it in a very deliberative and thoughtful way, to keep those protesters safe and to keep those families and the Broader Community in california safe. Josh haskell, abc 7 reporter hey. Quick question for you. Some of Ventura County to l. A. County, they have relaxed some restrictions when it has come to he stayathome order. They have open some parks, golf courses. I am wondering, on those decisions the county makes, are you consulted on that . What are your thoughts on some counties relaxing the stayathome orders . And are you concerned it may affect a neighboring county like l. A. County, which has much stricter restrictions, folks from l. A. County going to play golf and flood areas and in eighboring county . Gov. Newsom this virus knows no jurisdiction, knows no boundaries. But National Boundaries as ell. So the answer to that is yes, we are concerned about that. The answer to the first part is also yes, we were consulted. And i want to just express appreciation to the ventura team that did reach out to my team over the weekend. But here and this is really important is something to understand none of these local Health Directors can go further, or rather, go further backwards than the state uidance. So there is a cap in terms of the loosening at the local level. There is a strengthening at the local level and that can be loosened, but the cap is an expectation that they do not go beyond those state orders. That is in the letter of the law, and that is the thrust of the conversations of ommunication we had with the county health officials. I deeply appreciate their work to increase enforcement in certain areas, and desire to move and begin to address loosening in other areas. But we want to, as i expressed more broadly, want to see that done in concert with the state of california, legally and otherwise, in the spirit of cooperation. How we got into this to save lives, i want to get out of this with that same spirit in hand. So we are grateful for their outreach and we are working closely with others in california with similar conversations. Reporter along those same lines, my understanding is that a Bipartisan Group of elected officials in San Luis Obispo sent your office a letter asking permission to have them open up their local economy. In a science, healthbased wayward testing and everything like that. I am curious if you are going to allow county to present their own plans for reopening the economy. On ventura, did ventura pull back from what they wanted to do . Was this a negotiation your administration had with them . How did that kind of go own . Gov. Newsom i do not want to get too much into the weeds of the conversation, but we talked about parameters, we talked about expectation, we talked about our guidance, we talked about what we thinks conflicted with that. They pointed out things that did not conflict with that, and we found those areas as ones that needed to be adjudicated, discussed, and were discussed over the course of the weekend. Look, the answer to your question about San Luis Obispo is yes. As i said, we recognize that different parts of the state are mpacted differently. But also the fact that we are one state, and the impact any collective responsibility we have to one another, neighboring counties and cities, also must be considered. All of that is exactly why last week we put out those terms, those six areas, categories where we are advancing those conversations at the local level, incorporating their thoughts and advice at the same level, and as i said, every wednesday we will be updating you on those categories. I have not seen their letter, i have been seeing many letters tack up around these conversations, but we expect many more coming in, and we have a process to adjudicate those and to begin to dialogue with our team and their local health teams to make sure that the healthbased decision, not any other type of decisionmaking. Health first. Science and data. Everything else follows from hat. With that, let me just extend my appreciation for her patience for being on the phone. Linda, sorry no direct questions. That may be good news. Rob, the same. Thank you for all of your hard work. Thank you all for your partnership and your collaboration. I thank my wife again for all her incredible work over the last few weeks. Very proud of their efforts today and the announcement we are making today. All of us sobered by the need to do so, so much more to address these inequities and disparities, not just in education but as a relates to Public Health, and to continue to do what we can to close these gaps in realtime time across the spectrum of this economy. And i recognize in closing the deep desire people have to begin the process of moral best more robust conversations, and we are committed to sharing in a transparent way those conversations as they present themselves. And as i said, formally on wednesday, we will be laying out an update on the c cakes on the six key areas to give you a sense of where we think we are, and then begin to break down geographic discussions and considerations along the lines of the questions and queries that came in, so people can more fully understand where they as individuals, not just we as a state, are in relationship to the progress made. I continue to express gratitude to all of you for the progress you have made in continuing to end the curve. Stayathome orders are still in ffect. Deep desire to continue our physical distancing. Give us the opportunity, truly bend down the curve, not just see it slow down and flatten. And we of course will be back updating you on a daily basis, ncluding tomorrow at noon. Take care, everybody. Stay healthy, stay safe, and stay connected to your loved ones, but physically distanced. Thank you so much. 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