Different chefs will reduce classsize and allow for social distancing some schools may use hybrid models with a mix of in class and remote education. Districts will also decide to students and staff will be required to wear masks thurman said the state will come up with recommendations but theres no timeline on when next years budget will be a real challenge. This relates to rising to the challenge to the convenient challenge with education to students, we will continue to meet the challenge together. Some schools that operate yearround, could it be starting as early as july . Other districts will be starting much later than expected, no timeline on when the state guidelines will be published. Im and mackovic at the live news desk back to you. Thank you. Taking a live look outside with gray skies across the bay area this afternoon and, we may be seeing more wet weather soon. Lets get over to mary lee with the details. We are looking at a few showers that im tracking on high deathdoppler especially for northbay, you can see some showers offshore and is a zoom in here you can see right over here, wet weather right now. Years a live look at the Treasure Island camera with clouds, temperatures are running in the 50s and 60s and as we head into the day, a few more but unsettled weather continues as well as for tomorrow looking at a few more showers for thursday. Heres what you can expect today with daytime high slightly below average for this time of year, now lets hear from governor gavin newsom. Fire season in the state of california, it is a yearround challenge for all of us but, i want folks to know that we are mindful of the threats. We are mindful of the understandable anxiety , in addition to whats going on with covid19. And i want folks to know that we have been preparing for this upcoming wildfire season. We are not stepping back our efforts, we are in fact, stepping them up. The budget, i will announce tomorrow, will include enhancements for wildfire preparation and preparedness across the board as well as suppression strategies and opportunities to be more resilient in our recovery strategies. In a moment i will y out very specific examples of budgetary enhancements, but let me just lay down a predicate just this last week, 246 wildfires occurred here in the state of california. We just ran some numbers from january to may 10 last year we d om januy 10and this had 1100, it represents roughly a 60 increase this year compared to last year in the total number of wildfires it doesnt surprise our team here and it doesnt surprise many experts do we have had a below average year of precipitation, the snowpack and at least as a consequence, its only reinforced the desire to do more and to be better in terms of preparation. We were focusing last on 200 vulnerable immunities and focused our efforts on 35 high profile vegetation and fuel management projects. 34 of the 35 hav complete. The one thats been delayed will be done in eight days around highway 17 south of Santa Clara County and more toward santa cruz. That project has been a stubborn project but finally will be complete, as i said, just in a matter of days. We continue to do more than weve done in the past on defensible spaces and he will talk more about the efforts. The fuels management and Vegetation Management are not e throughout the state of california and are complemented by private sector work in that space in my local work in the space and by the states in 2020 need advanced in terms of the fuels manant Vegetation Management. In some cases prescribed burns and reforestation. In that portfolio, we get more work done then we have in the past and is still not where we need to go is a state, the size and scope of the state still have a lot more work to do in the future on vegetation and Forest Management and theres no substitute for the work that they can provide in this space as well. We encourage is always our federal partners to help us with these efforts because the overwhelming majority of land that exists in this date while land is federal land, a very small percentage is state land and again private and local land. So, we continue to advance and look forward to securing more support in that space. In an effort as well to secure support, we recognize that this season, fire season for an additional reason because of ps ps, those are four letters that most californians, at least in Northern California are familiar with as well, these are the power shutoffs that we experience in record numbers last year. In an effort to do more and do better, as you may recall, a few months ago, the top story that focused our attention and focused our efforts and the legislator and in my office was working to help get pg e back on its feet and out of bankruptcy and to help the three other investorowned utilities, three total to be more secure not only financially but more secure in their capacity to invest in your future and our collective future. What i mean by that is to make the investments themselves independent of this state, local and private sector, to invest in their own efforts to secure their wires and poles and to advance underground and to focus on secular risers and making sure they have greater capacity in real time to have information with infrared cameras and weather stations in the efforts to do more on their own Vegetation Management and secure their own aerial fleet that you provide more air support for Recovery Efforts and to do more on your behalf to secure wildfire safety and Public Safety. You may recall there there was an effort that the legislature in our team advanced and it required certain things from our investorowned utilities. I want to update you on what those are and remind you how important they are to our larger wildfire efforts. 5 billion is required of our investorowned utilities and Safety Measures , thats a requirement pursuant to the agreement that we advance that must come from the ious directly, independent again of all of the state efforts. We created a wildfire Advisory Committee to focus on Public Safety and that is also a requirement under that bill and these efforts we are announcing tomorrow in our budget, the Public Utilities department is billing a team of 106 individuals that will create a Wildfire Safety Division within the Public Utilities commission. The division will become an independent entity but right now it will start within the Public Utilities commission. That will 24 7 oversee the effort of all three of our largest investorowned utilities. We have a monitor now that weve put in place at pg e to independently monitor their safety efforts. We have safety mitigation plans are we call wildfire mitigation plans the requirement to be certified by the boards of these utilities and ultimately by the Public Utility Commission where an Advisory Committee will advise the commission its a way of saying were in a place weve never been in the past and in terms of oversight and accountability and transparency with our investorowned utilities, to help support these wildfire mitigation efforts. I am not nacve that these utilities are where they are needing to be, quite the contrary. Pg e is still in bankruptcy. They have the opportunity to come out of bankruptcy by june 30 by a predicate of all of that is fulfilling the requirements of these plans, we will do our part to make sure there is Real Transparency and accountability to these utilities and to make sure that they do justice to what they are promising and what is been promoted in terms of requirements. So that is just a quick update on where the ious are. By the way, i do want to recognize that pg e has significantly increased the number of weather stations, significantly increase their highdefinition cameras and, has committed to new protocols on the ps ps, where they have committed to us a duration reduction, of roughly 50 in terms of time to provide what we refer to as an all clear and interning on your lights. We will them to account in and sobered by the reality of pg e in particular, over the last number of years. We are emerging in a different frame and in a different space and a different framework of engagement and now an oversight that i hope can allow people to rest, well maybe not with both eyes closed but when i open but rest assured and rest assured we are taking these efforts very seriously. So, from the ious, good work with the Public Utilities commission to a budget that will increase at the office of Emergency Services and they have a budget of 127 million. We will improve the budget at the office of Mercy Service providing for ongoing monitoring, not just of oversight related to wildfires we tarmd that includes earthqua and again, maybe just being born and bred, five generation bay area resident in San Francisco resident, earthquakes continue to be top of my mind with the 17. 3 million and the budget for earlymorning systems and into the office of Emergency Services for stronger integration and 2. 2 Million Dollars. That matters this year in particular because of concern are on ps ps, turning off the lights during the election and if they want to secure the election as well the dollars are for that and in addition to other considerations as it relates to backup generators and its a number of individuals that we believe are important to enhance the office of Emergency Service in this category as well. Speaking of categories, i have neglected one and its important as a segway and introduced chief border, thats cal fire in particular. The separate 127 mine dollar enhancement above the current baseline that we are proposing to the legislature we are also proposing 80 5. 7 Million Dollar enhancement to cal fire, specificallye ty and higher cri personnel before the peak of this years fire season. Roughly 600 additional personnel , we believe are needed to protect people to protect people from wildfires to the extent we can protect you and help mitigate the ferocity of these wildfires. So, this is a significant enhancement in terms of the overra cal fire and we hold the line on that and work with the legislature and i hope together we can hold the line in terms of the importance of these personnel. So that is an enhancement in that space. I could mention a number of others with work return from tegna silva in terms of Predictive Modeling which is important, new tools and new technology that bring to bear, which will also help with wildfire efforts and people, theres no substitute for people and those people, by the way will also be supported by these engines we were able to get by july of this year, an additional 26 new engines all throughout the state of california and for command udeployed by july 1. We are going to have other equipment, even outside of just these engines and they include new blackhawk helicopters that they had the procurement of 12 blackhawk helicopters were not in a walk that back to important in terms of mutual aid and Public Safety in the state of california. I want folks to know that those helicopters are now arriving and october of this year, fa it was just using the red fire in the hammett county. These back hawks are extraordinary and provide faster suppression capacity and more robust in terms of gallons of water and art safer and double twin turbine engine and i could go on and on and i think these are as 701 blackhawks but 12 of them and 12 of them came in and another one is coming and another one next month, it will start to see these blackhawks in the fleetre to meet the Public Safety needs in this state. We can talk another time about the c130s, all of those things are baseline and continue to bring into this new year. Ouisat least for mentsa remore specifically about this budget and a little bit of relief as well and i think youll see plenty sadly of tom porter. Daughter is getting hotter and the dry is getting drier and the what is getting wetter. Theres a new reality for those who dont believe in Climate Change or science, i remind them, when appropriate, after our stayathome orders are lifted when you can come in without fear of transmission of this deadly virus, come to california to visit us and learn about Climate Change firsthand because even if you deny it your own eyes may tell you something very differently. Observed evidence cannot just intellectual curiosity, new reality that Climate Change is real and its here and the effects are profound and that is why we want to acknowledge that is well upfront and thats a good part of the work that our chief has to deal with as it relates to the acuity of the fight he has in front of us. Chief border porter. Thank you, governor. I am going to cover three things. Response, preventiand preparedness. Very simply, those three things, every one of them is being invested in by the state government, thank you governor for recognizing that these are things that are not going away, they are very important to protecting lives, property and the environment of california for future generations and, they have to be invested in now and, continuing that investment is key to our success. So, response. Response is, to wildland fire in particular, but all large emergencies, its a team sport, no one agency in california can do that mission alone, cal fire is responsible for wildland fires off of federal lands, sometimes on federal lands as well, throughout this date so, we lead the charge we have a very strong wildland fire ethic wildland Fire Training for wildland fire response and we also have, as in the case of where we stand today mutual aid response that is cal fire employees but we also need the local government partners and we need our cities and counties and districts and we need are volunteers and we need them all healthy and ready to go to these wildfires as well. As i said, team sport, we need everybody and that includes the federal partners, wildland fire firefighters from the u. S. Forest service, blm, baa and other agencies, we need everybody ready to go and what im ready to hit say is weve been working since january very closely with all of these groups to ensure that we are looking out for the safety and health of firefighters and also for the health and safety of other time in the level of come coordination thats happening and that is because of the pandemic that we are working through. So, prevention. Prevention is a key component to keeping fires small, to keeping fires out of the areas that are most populated where we are going to have the most concern about lives and property loss but, its also important for backcountry fires as well and the reason i bring up prevention is i had a conversation with the chief of the forest service, vicki christiansen, just yesterday i asked her the question about, what you see is the need for being proactive this year and putting all of the fires out as quickly as you possibly can and e was ry complementary to and pointed back to her chiefs letter to the nation of firefighters under her that says just that, the initial attack is the key component to keeping fires small and keeping firefighters healthy. I am going to continue to push that with my federal partners, everybody is on board and as i said weve been talking about this, this is a key component but, if we keep fires small at the beginning, with the extra resources that were can i have then we will protect the public and the firefighters from unnecessary exposure to smoke and the need to bring them together and the congregational settings and all key components and prevention has a peas but alat mefromthe to preparedness. You, every single one of you every single one of you in california has a part in you and you can do can protect lives and property, and you can reach out for your neighbors and reach out to the elderly and reach out to family members, and you can help them do the dispensable space around their homes that needs to be done and should be done at this time of year and we are doing our indispensable space inspections,. The local government is doing that as well and some of the counties. We need to make sure that you have dispensable space and you can help your neighbors, neighbors helping neighbors to be prepared for this fire season. There are so many other things that you can do as well, including the hardening of your structure to the hardening of your structure is something that you can do and again, you can help your neighbor do and that will make it more resistant to burning down in the event of a fire coming into your neighborhood. There are some very simple things that you can do. Its easy, just go to ready to for wildfire. Org and check out the website, it has checklist. You can see how youre doing, its very Important Information there and theres also an app that you can get on any mobile device that will take you through the exact same thing and it will give you a Shopping List that you can take down to home depot or lowes or your favorite store to get the supplies that you will need to do that. So, if you will continue to work on that piece you will be a hero in the wildland fire setting in california. Every single californian can be that hero. We will work on the wildland fires in the backcountry and in the canyons to do the fuel work that the governor mentioned and that is what we will do and commit to and we will respond to every single wildland fire that can that occurs in the state this year. There will be tens of thousands. Thank yo to the governors comments on this. Look the i know this is a tired clichc and chew gum at the same time. Were focused on scene 19, were focused on coronavirus, mitigation, trying to do our best to suppress the spread at the same time. Weve got to mitigate and suppress these fires as a move s top priority of this state, legislature and our administration. I want folks to know that we are not going to step back despite the economic headwinds of our responsibility to meet this moment as well as we tried to meet so many other moments in the midst of this crisis. I also want to just think, because he is here, markkula duty and his team at the office of services for his advice and counsel to the budget process and the good work his team is doing to prepare for wildfire season. Mutual aid system is second to none and that mutual aid exists within the state and exists outside of the state of california. All i can say, before i update you on the daily numbers is, the western pack we have with Western State governors, related to the covid19 response is a perfect brid sponse to bridging into our collective response and responsibility as americans to one another and support put wildfire efforts as well and thats just another one of many examples of what a pandemic can do in terms of bringing people together and forcing conversations and developing partnerships in a collaborative spirit that will transcend that crisis and benefit us as we move into other challenging moments in our state and our nation. With that, let me just move in to the daily update briefing in terms of the total number of people that have been tested positive over the last 24 hours for covid19, the total number of lives izion numbers and also i want to update you on the number of counties including this county this county that of self attested and so certified and they have self certified plan and are allowing to be advanced into deeper parts of our phase 2, and that we have 1759 additional test positive yesterday for covid19. We were able to test over 32,220 individuals in the last 24 hours, now we have tested over 1,065,000 people in this state since we began our testing process. Tragically, we lost 87 lives in the last 24 hours and 87 families, torn apart because of a tragic death and loss of a loved on this seriously. This virus has not disappeared. It has not gone away. As we enter into fire season. We also have to be cognizant that as we increase our ranks and personnel that we keep our First Responders healthy as a top priority so they can keep us safe as we move forward. For no other reason, for those out there that feel like they are immune to the transferability of this virus, i hope you will consider the First Responders the heroes of our communities and consider their safety and their health as well. D some good news with our icu numbers yesterday down modestly. 0. 3 . You have been seeing a little bit of a trend with icu rate over the course of the last number of weeks