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San francisco, san mateo. Outdoor businesses can operate like nurseries and landscapers but not restaurants or bars. Construction projects within the state rules. Real estate transactions with limited in person viewings. And the use of certain shared Outdoor Recreational facilities like skate parks. But not others that would involve shared equipment or physical contact. Now some childrens camp and Day Care Centers will be allowed to operate as of monday as well. But there are rules there. They have to have groups of 12 kids. And must be a fixed group. Not exchanging kids in and out of the group. And the social distancing rules will still apply. And the states rules will always trump these local rules. So as we know it is an ever evolving process. Anne makovec at the live news desk. Back to you. The fda plans to authorize emergency use of a drug that is currently being tested as a treatment for covid 19. Its from foster city based gilead sciences. In a new report, the drug maker says patients taking the antiviral drug for shorter periods of time saw similar results to longer treatments. We have the governor now. Lets listen in live. We have others struggling to keep tabs on their employees that are on unemployment. Others that havent even imagined the ross protect of being able to open modestly for takeout. We have seniors. Millions of seniors in the state of california. Many with no access to nutritious food. No access to prepared mills. No capacity at home if isolated to even prepare. And so we advanced a frame work to begin the process of reopening restaurants to start to three meals a day delivered packaged, prepared. Delivered to the doorsteps of seniors all throughout the state of california. That program now is just starting to take shape and cities and counties all across the state. The state of california put out the frame work and its the citys responsibility to engage the restaurants and work through the protocols. We have seen cities like l. A. And others really accel in this space. Were very encouraged by this program. In that same spirit in that same frame work of collaboration and partnership. Today we are announcing a strategy to do the same around food but now focusing on farms to families. Focusing on the issues that obviously are front and center all across the nation. And that is issues of food banks. And how we can do more to help support our farmers, help support farm workers, and also help support food banks here in the state of california. This new initiative that were launching today is a partnership between the federal government, the state of california and philanthropy. Its a strategy that is rather simple. Currently our farmers, our ranchers are seeing a 50 of reduction in demand. They have excess produce. They have excess commodities that they simply in manyrespects is perishable items that they cannot distribute. We have food banks that have on the average seen a 73 spike in demand. Here we are, bread basket, the world, california and we wa ddressmismatch. Ess thsupply demand. Is the announcement today. To work with the ranchers, to work with the farmers. To connect them to the food banks and so in a way that jump starts our capacity to deliver nutritious food, high quality, locally produced produce, poultry, and dairy and the like to those most in need in the state of california. The partnership currently has about 128 farmers and ranchers. Providing food to 41 food banks being distributed in 58 counties. The goal of this annome is tprovide 21 miion pounds of fresh food and Fresh Produce on a monthly basis. 2021 Million Pounds of Fresh Produce and other commodities to our food banks. Weve raised some 3. 6 million to jump start this program. We want to extend this program through the end of thyear. And taylor who has been passionate in this space. She is committed to raising some 15 million. She initiated a contribution to that end to help get this partnership in place and help us launch it. But it is that partnership between our federal government, between state agencies, between philanthropy and then our farmers and our farm workers that will pick and pack and distribute this Fresh Produce and these other commodities to our food banks. We are very excited and livened by this program and i want to thank and i will introduce her in a moment our secretary of agricultural karen ross who has helped spear head this effort and advanced this cause and brought some of the biggest brands in the Agricultural Community to the foret cafoice sociation, the ging imand others sunkist on the citrus side. Even doing fruit bowls in the like. Again, all of this in the spirit of collaboration to provide these new food packs to families in need. I can assure you, you look back last recession, you would not have seen these food packs with so many nutritious items. Perishable items. And other items that werelocally produced and immediately distributed. So we are very excited about this. The spirit that defines the spirit of california. And the spirit that certainly i hope will enliven people all across the state of california. And the incredible pressure they are facing. I stated a few weeks back that we contributed because of the support of the legislature, assembly, and the Senate Democrats and republicans supporting them. We distributed 20 million of an emergency grant of our foodbanks to enhance and advance our efforts to families in need. We also announced that the National Guard, the First Mission the National Guard advanced during this pandemic was a humanitarian mission to support our food banks. We also worked in collaborative spirit now with partners like americorp that has done an amazing job. Team ryan con that has done the same. Cal volunteers. All in an effort to subsidize not only the increase in demand, but the decrease in volunteers at our food banks when this pandemic took shape. They have substantially addressed a lot of those issues. Its not by any stretch perfect. And i will, as always, announce on you to the extent you support that cause and volunteer your time and attention. There are californians for all website the food bank still needs more volunteers. I want to acknowledge the partnerships that have been advanced between those four organizations, the National Guard as the original anchor in americorp. Cal volunteers are helping to support the distribution of food for those most in need. So connecting californias farms, farm workers, connecting to the cause of our food banks. Getting product and produce that otherwise would literally be thrown away as waste and now providing a tax credit inwa to getting philanthropy to help support this and getting the federal dollars drawn down that would not have been drawn down is the spirit of the announcement today. But there are two other components that i want to share as well. We got two waivers from the federal government. One waiver is rather significant. The Cal Fresh Program our snap, our food stamp program. Cal Fresh Program can now today provide access to commodities online. So if you have a cal fresh debit card you can go online and utilize cal fresh at scale. We started with just two partners for the moment and that is amazon and walmart. That is just for the moment. Amazon, walmart. But now you can shop online with cal fresh. We want to expand those partnerships beyond walmart and amazon. I will announce that when the partnerships are available. Currently we are affording this because of that waiver to everybody in the state of california. I say everybody. Its about 2. 2 million households. A little over 4 Million People that can avail themselves to access that opportunity online. The second waiver is a rather significant one. Because of the work of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others, we were successful in being the beneficiary and the recipient of a pandemic ebt program. We were able to work with our federal partners on an additional waiver for this program to provide up to 365 additional dollars. Additional 365 available under this pandemic ebt program. For children and families that otherwise would have gotten the benefit of reduced or free breakfast and lunch in our Public School system. Because we shutwn the schools, still doing learning, Distance Learning at home, but the physical schools are shut down. Those meals were the universe of roughly 3. 8 million children that are eligible for those programs. Those programs are not providing in every case those meals. And so this pandemic ebt program will make availability a universe up to 1. 4 billion for3. 8 million eligible families. Again that is the universe of possible to begin to utilize those dollars from that cares act to advance their nutritional needs. So we think that is a significant thing. I couldnt be more pleased and proud of the work that kim johnson has done and department of social services to organize and set up that program. The frame work is a 64 day period from march to the middle of june. But the universe of available dollars is rather large and we just want to make sure its socialized and we are doing everything in our power to get that information out there and of course encourage others that may know people that fall under that category of being eligible for free or reduced breakfast and lunch programs to know that these dollars are available for them through the ebt program and were going to do our best to get them in peoples pockets because we deeply recognize peoples food insecurity, not just their economic insecurity. And we dont want to exacerbate that to the extent that we can. So partnerships and our food banks. Partnerships with our farms and ranchers. Partnerships with local producers to help local food banks. Partnerships in terms of philanthropy and volunteers. People doing more to create more access and opportunity. Not just in person but also online to draw down eligible dollars. Federal dollars in the Cal Fresh Program. And now this broader waiver for our kids in Public Schools. So im very proud and pleased to be able to make these announcements today. Its the spirit of our times. Spirit of the california. What often takes a year, now we need to do in months. What takes a month, we need to do in weeks. What takes weeks we need to do in days. And what we used to do in days, we need to do in hours. I recognize every day i come here making announcements, also following up on announcements and itcan be overwhelming. But that is the moment we are living in. You cant just do one thing at a time. You have to do many things at a time. Were dealing with a pandemic. We are dealing with a crisis. It requires a focus, it requires an intentionality. It requires people doing things they never imagined possible. Even just two months ago. Im just incredibly proud of everybody doing what they can as we say to meet this moment. So one of them i will just offer the mic here in a moment is our secretary of agricultural who has been fighting for some of these programs for years. Since my days as lieutenant governor. I heard her talk about these programs. And again proving the point in just a few weeks she was able to put something together that she has been talking about for years. Our secretary of agricultural. Thank you, governor. And thank you for your leadership. We appreciate your support. We appreciate everyones whever th mi. Our farmers is ye all of us have. But they are working every day to continue the kind of bountiful, nutritious productivity is the hallmark of california. We are blessed to have the farmers and ranchers that we have had that named us the number one agricultural state and leader in our tree nuts and dairy and our fruits and vegetables. I like to tell people, if youve had a salad today l is a 50 50 chance that the salad came from the state of california. The shock to closing down food service has ramifications to how we all shop and eat these days. 50 of our food dollars are spent in the food service arena. No longer in retail. Like it used to be. And that has backed up product. And because it is so perishable, some of it has just come out of the ground. A program that was in right place. To say at any time of the year we have markets that are not absorbing all of our crop, but we dont want it to go to waste. We want the citizens of california to have access to that healthy food. They ran a Pilot Program that led to the California Association of food banks developing the farm to family program. I am proud that when i was a member of the state board of food and agricultural, we created a partnership to make sure that we could take this program statewide and use it to prevent waste. To use it to get all that is good that we grow in this state. To the citizens of this state. It is a highly developed network. It has logistics like any other food distributor does. It has four regional coordinators that go out and solicit donations from our growers and ranchers. They take straight donations and oftentimes if there is just not enough money to cover the farmers cost of harvesting that, they will pay a portion of the harvest cost to be able to get it, transport it into the Central Food Bank so it can be repackaged and distributed up and down the state to the 41 s believe had it in place, we were able to prevent extensive food waste that was bound to happen because of the suddenness because of the change of our economy and buying habits. I also want to thank the people on our state board who have a Standing Task force around food banks and food insecurity. They are meeting even as we are here today discussing not only the short term wage or response to the tremendous need of our citizens, but also what do we have in place long term to be able to insure that every child, every senior citizen, every family has access to healthy california grown fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, poultry, beef, we have it all. Thank you very much. Thank you, madam secretary. As we say, secretary ross has been working on this program for years. Its a very important program. But its never scaled to the extent now it will. I noted 128 participants. She has already identified over 200 additional farmers and ranchers that want to participate in this program. And because of this jump start, we believe it will substantially and significantly expand in realtime and thanks to her leadership im confident that will take shape to the benefit of hundreds of thousands of families all up and down the state. Will have these quality opportunities to get americas finest produce, some of the finest citrus. Well, i wont go through the list. But you get the picture. And were very, very grateful that people will be getting these food boxes. By the way, what its worth, when i say food boxes, we are literally organizing these in boxes. 20 million emergency grant. About 900,000 of these boxes went out. It provides a family of three or four up to three or four days of food. So its not just canned items. Its again, all of these other perishable items that are fresh and ready to be consumed that oregon in a supply chain where market demands dropped in half would otherwise as we said go to waste. So that is the importance of thing a techture of this program and power of this program as well. Let me just extend as we do daily a little bit of an update before we open it up to questions from folks on a number of key issues and indicators in this state. Yesterday we talked about number of i. Caters. Talked about those that we believe are beginning to turn green. Some that are yellow. Some that are still read. We did a deeper dive as it relates to businesses andschools. A little bit on child care facilities. We talked about moving from this phase that we define as phase one and two. In a matter of weeks and not months. And talk about phase three and four being months and not weeks. One of the critical indicators that is prevalent in all of our discussions is the number of people whose lives been lost to this pandemic. A number of people hospitalized. A number of people in our icus. I mentioned last week we started to see a Record Number of deaths in the state of california. I began this week by announcing that tragically we had lost 45 lives on monday. 54 lives yesterday. About half of the daily number of families that have been torn apart because of this virus compared to the prior week. Today it went back up 78 families that have lost a loved one. So again we monitor this the le indicator. Its just a reminder we are not out of the woods. Reminder of the stay at home orders. Reminder of the importance and potency and power and individual in terms of physically distancing from others and continuing to practice social distancing. Accordingly, while we have seen the number of hospitalized patients flatten and become relatively stable in the state, i mentioned it went up modestly. It went up again modestly. About 1. 2 . Still within the margin ility. But again not where we want to see those numbers. We dont want to just see a stable flat curve. We want to see that curve decline significantly. 4 decline in the number of rather or rather 0. 4 increase from a decline yesterday. A modest decline in the icus. But we certainly are seeing stability in d allows our venti inventory to be near 10,2500. That is just within our 416 hospitals. And in addition to that, our own state capacity in terms of our reserves and those that we have lent to other states across the country. So, again, encouraging but by no stretch of the imagination where we ultimately need to see those numbers go. And that is sustained decrease. But certainly still within the frame that has been over the course of the last few weeks. I want to update you just briefly on the incredible call volume. Every day or every other day updated you. The work were trying to do to improve your experience and capacity of access and distribution of benefits and funds through our Unemployment Insurance system. 3. 7 Million People now have filed for Unemployment Insurance. Just since march 12th. They have distributed now just shy of over 6 billion. Not just shy. They have distributed over 6 billion of benefits. 1. 2 billion just yesterday. Just in a 24 hour period they were able to distribute 1. 2 billion. We saw, not surprisingly, a spike in applications yesterday. We saw about 235,000 people apply for Unemployment Insurance and the new pua program. That is a pandemic unemployment assistance for people who are selfemployed. People who are independent contractors. That was the first day that we had that system l for puas. We are able to unpack those numbers. And roughly 190,000 individuals. Substantial portion of that increase volume was in that pau program. Im deeply aware that many of you tried to access that system online or in person and struggled to get in. I was very sober about this last week and yesterday in terms of addressing the fact that this is day one yesterday. Now day two that we are getting our arms around this. Again, unprecedented volume. You went from 2500 applications a day just a few months ago all in just yesterday 235,000 applications. Not an excuse. We have to meet the moment. We have to provide more support. And i mentions chat bots we are putting up and new texting technology. I talked about the 1340 people we rehired and repurposed to support the call volume, the extension of the hours seven days a week. And talked about the additional 600 staff we are putting on this in the new Business Strategies in terms of how we conduct ourselves and how we are able to answer questions much more aggressively and fort rightly. They are all part of loosening the capacity and our ability to deliver on your expectations and what you deserve as people that are fearful about their economics and fearful about their ability to just buy food, pay for rent, support their children. Support their families. So we are making progress. And those numbers are baring fruit over 6 billion. 1. 2 billion yesterday. Averaging just a little over 1 billion in the last number of days. Each day 1. 2. Puas now finally coming online and the turn around on those is well within. Not the 21 days for Unemployment Insurance. But within a seven day period. 2448 hours for those overwhelming majority of people that have debit cards that without one will probably be a seven day period. But well within we believe our capacity to deliver. Although i will be honest and fort right in terms of updating you daily on those numbers as well. One other number of importance and that is the continuing progress that will be made in our efforts to provide homes for the homeless that are in congregate facilities that are otherwise vulnerable to exposure of covid 19 or have tested positive or have compromised immune systems. We have now well in excess of 12,500. In fact, its 12,603 hotel rooms have been acquired now in the state. Over 1200 of those trailers in addition to those rooms have been distributed all across the state. And we have thousands and thousands of individuals that now have the dignity of a key lock and a door. And a place, at least for the moment, to call home because of project room key. D gettg this progopatmake d those e the three meals a day that are also delivered to the doors of people that are participants in project room key through chef jose and world central kitchen and the incredible work they have done to partner with us and provide three meals a day for those vulnerable californians as well. Trying to do many things at once. Trying to do all of it in a condensed period of time. All of these things require partnership. All of these things require collaboration, capacity, and again i just want to express deep gratitude for all of our local elected officials. Our state and federal officials that have helped all of us meet the guidelines and begin to process many of these programs concurrently as we work our way through is broad strokes. The updates on the numbers i will just mention one final one before i will open up to questions and that is testing. Always important. Well update you tomorrow. A little bit more on Contact Tracing in our work forces we are forming. Testing we broke from my perspective an important threshold. Again we started 2,000 tests a day in march. By the end of april we said we would go from 2,000 to 25,000 every day. We are almost there. Weve been averaging a little over 20,000 day. 25,000plusesterday. Er now 600,000. 603,000 plus tests so far in the state of california. And i mentioned yesterday the new partnerships with these end to end tests that will focus on Rural California and under severed parts of our state. Other sites that we announced a few days ago, and we are seeing the same in our inner cities as well, its not the test numbers, its who we are testing, and how we are addressing the socioeconomics, the justice issues and doing more to make sure that we have the right information as it relates to the impact of this virus on all their

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