Place order remains in effect. Now the governor gavin newsom. Remarkable, remarkable spirit and remarkable number of individuals that stepped and you happen are willing to step in to meet covid19 head on. Those that may have retired or soon to get their license, check out the website and contribute your time in a compensated manner. Were getting a lot of questions at this moment about masks. Not just m95 masks, not just surgical masks, not just masks for our front line employees and particular Healthcare Professionals and people that are in the Grocery Stores wondering in they should have a mask. People walking the streets, walking dog, going to do essential business in the state of california wondering if its appropriate for them or advisable for them to have face coverings. Parts of the world moving to advance. We have a team considering guidance in this space to make recommendations whether or not we think this is appropriate but let me caution on this topic, a number of things, we
Hour until noon to keep you updated. Im laura garcia. Im marcus washington. President trump made some big announcements this morning. The News Conference wrapped launched project baseline. Up a short time ago. One site is now open at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. We brought it to you live with a no walkups allowed, people can special report. Only qualify through an online the president speaking to people screening. So far verily has done 400 who are home from work in recent tests. With more tsa officers days from the pandemic. Testing positive for coronavirus and more now quarantined, the the president is marshaling the union is calling for more protections. The agency says its already private sector when it comes to following federal osha and cdc Coronavirus Response and announced plans for two Navy Hospital ships to Service Guidance for protective gear. You may remember three tsa infected patients. Thats right big white ships officers at San Jose International airport were the
Contract the coronavirus and over an eightweek period. Hes saying thank you for joining us, everyone, im Catherine Heenan the governor is stressing californias need for help in this pandemic again were waiting for an update from his side. As News Conference said he is set to speak that could happen any time we will bring it to you live when it does but first kron on site Ashley Zavala is following the story for us tonight. She is live in sacramento and ashley. I had to look twice that is a chilling projection. Of multiple times to make sure that what i was seeing was correct. Governor Gavin Newsome in that letter urging President Trump to deploy a floating hospital essentially with the usns mercy here to california to handle what hes expecting an influx of coronavirus patients. In his letter to the president the governor warned the state projects 56 of californias population will be infected with the virus within a 2 month period he estimates thats 25. 5 Million People use im formally
International destinations. And officials are urging all americans abroad to return home immediately. This afternoon President Trump and Vice President pence went to fema headquarters to Video Conference with the nations governors. The Vice President told them more protective masks are being produced. In the bill the president signed last night. We have literally unlocked tens of millions of n95 masks. What the president asked the congress to do, and they did, was we extended Liability Protection to all industrial n95 masks. So those can now be readily sold to hospitals and healt providers. The administration has not responded to an offer from carnival to use some of its cruise ships as floating hospitals during the pandemic. The company says the ships could be used to free up landbased hospitals. Applications for Unemployment Insurance jumped dramatically this week. Advanced claims on Unemployment Insurance acrossed 34 compared to last week. Governor newsom said 80,000 people applied
Scene that weve been witnessing all over the bay area all week long. Good evening, thanks for joining us on kron 4 news at 8 im ken way and i pale more the reason behind the governors order is to help practice social distancing it is something that we are doing right here at kron 4 to do our part to prevent the spread of coronavirus and we encourage all of you to do the same. Worldwide there are more than 242,000 confirmed coronavirus cases more than 9800 people have died as a result. Here in the us are there more than 13,000 cases and a 176 deaths in california there are 952 confirmed cases with 18 deaths but earlier today. Governor newsome predicted more than half of california will contract coronavirus over an 8 week period. And that concern is what led the governors and to his announcement a grant lodes is here now is what governor had to say for all means the rest of the state now is going to be doing starting midnight tonight. What most of the bay area has been doing since midnig