The president s initial 15 day period of social distancing expires tomorrow. Hes now extended the voluntary worse Case Scenario when it comes to the National Shutdown by 30 days. Good evening, everyone. Im Frank Somerville working from home tonight. Coronavirus pandemic. Im julie haener. Many state leaders are calling on the government to provide his recommendations come as more medical equipment. California is ramping up its they say they desperately need efforts to fight the virus. The u. S. Navy hospital ship mercy has docked in los angeles more medical equipment, but those requests at least right and is now taking its first now are not being granted. Patients. The ship is taking reporter as the number of noncoronavirus patients so Coronavirus Infections surges other nearby hospitals can nationwide, hospitals are handle the increase in covid19 facing a desperate shortage of medical supplies and equipment. Among the most critical, patients. The usns mercy has 1,000 beds, ventilators.
Other nearby hospitals can the latest measures taken in handle the increase in the fight including the food and Drug Administration authorizing a new rapid test. Coronavirus patients, this as the fda authorized a New Santa Cruz county has death fro test developed by abbott labs coronavirus. That delivers lightning fast ktvus greg liggins here now results in as little as five with the story of a bay area minutes. Reporter with 50,000 tests family coping with the loss of expected to be delivered each a loved one from coronavirus. Day the deployment of rapid reporter yeah, frank. Testing will vastly accelerate with the number of sick and our ability to monitor, track, dying growing day after day contain and ultimately defeat after day, its easy to forget the virus. We have will defeat the. That behind every number there is a person and one of the people to hit the casualty count recently is a woman from virus. Reporter fema is building additional hospitals in new york, new jersey and loui
City stuck at 52. Morning low clouds and partly sunny, mostly cloudy and weak systems are staying to the north and theyre not going to make much of a move till maybe this upcoming weekend. On shore breeze or south wind in place and low clouds and not much of a storm track and the rain line and itll stay there till we get to the weekend and 60s on the temps for most and near average to slightly above and well get there till about wednesday and thursday as temperatures bump up a bit. Back to you guys. All right, steve, thank you very much. We have traffic very light and please dont speed. Chp has been issuing a lot of citations and Public Transit systems going outside and take muni metro, it wont be a train but a bus. We have more of that coming up and cal train reduced service by more than half on its lines but really there are no real backups or delays on the services. Now back to the desk. Thank you, sal. Time is 7 02 and the bay area shelter in place order is due to expire a week fro
Big message that says hello cookster, i miss that. What we have in store for us today steve for the weather . A little less rain and a little more sunshine, a couple weeks systems around Sonoma County and napa county north, lowes in place, not even close to how cold it was last week as we say in the 40s and 50s pseudocritical minimums expected bit when you get to april is pretty tough but san jose 52 and mostly cloudy and the barometer is 30. 25, there will be more sunshine as the low cloud deck burns off and not much of a breeze mixes and clouds today and a little rain to the north, santa rosa and calistoga north and most of the week looks quiet and in fact nothing until saturday unless you are north, and if youre north there could be a few little systems like mendocino county, a couple of one hundredths is really make it in the pattern to keep us in check with the temperatures that will stay in the 60s and only bumping up a little. We are still below average, closer but not there yet
North for a while and maybe by the weekend something was begin 50 around sacramento and lake tahoe is at 34 and everything is staying north right now with temperatures in the 60s for most temperatures which are slightly below average but ever so much closer, maybe by thursday. And now lets get over to Sal Castaneda. Good morning, i want to mention that as the days where on weve had our share of serious crashes but right now looking at pretty clear roads but chp is asking you keep speeds down but weve had a little bit of a problem in the bay area the past three days where people have been speeding and a lot of officers have cited people and they want us to remind you to keep speeds down and drive safely because you will be cited if caught and now back to you dave. We are hearing reports that if you live in the bay area expect the shelter in place order to continue for at least the next month. Health officials are expected to announce the current order will stay in effect until may 1. Kt