The crash to give them a call. We are waiting for governor nissen to get that update any moment. Expected to address the upcoming wildfire season and preparations underway amid coronavirus pandemic. The firefighting efforts could look a lot different this year, especially as counties continue to maintain strict social distancing. We will bring you the governors News Conference live as soon as he gets underway. The number of coronavirus cases in california continues to rise. There are now more than 71,000 confirmed cases with more than 2800 deaths right here in the bay area. There are more than 10,000 cases so far at least 368 people have died. This morning there was a grand show of support for bay area healthcare workers and First Responders on the front lines of the covid19 case rises. 415 eagle jets performed flyovers at medical facilities in richmond, oakland, and san jose. They also flew over the State Capitol and the Governors Office of Emergency Services before jets flew out of f
Coronavirus testing to every resident. Regardless of symptoms. Good evening i am ken stevens. And elizabeth cook. Healthcare workers will have priority in the tests will require unemployment. The mayor saying it is critical to learning who has the virus and using stayathome rules. Kpix 5 first exposed that coronavirus Testing Facilities in San Francisco are being underutilized at a time when widespread testing is essential. The city has the capacity to test as many as 5800 people per day. So far it is only testing about 500. The city has recently expanded the symptoms that qualify for testing to include things like headache or fatigue. But its not clear how many people are aware of that. It took me forever to find out the link that would give you access to the test. And yeah, from other people that did the test before. But i could not find this link. It has only been within the last week that we have increased or expanded the symptoms that will qualify someone for testing. So you will
This busy morning and checking with steve on those temperatures. 40s and 50s with a lot of cloud cover south for central Southern California and eventually arizona but not for us there could be a little bit of the focus though looks to be monterey and fresno south, much of the north it just will not happen. But it will be a huge event in Southern California once it gets going but that might not be until tuesday. Highs in the 60s which is welcome back, ridesharing pretty close to where we should be this time of year, now over and Food Delivery Companies in the us are considering setting to allie. Up a fund to pay drivers starting on the east bay affected by the coronavirus. Where there is a couple new the wall street journal reports crashes, this is on southbound that doordash, post mates and 880 just north of west a street there is a crash and also uber are discussing banded together and pay workers have q southbound 880 blocking the left lane and circling back to is independent contra
Day. Challengers in elections, oversight and regulation. For those who didnt see me at the top of the day, im alex gibbons and run law policy at the law school and happy to be hosting you today. Many key areas of challenges, somebody was just saying that theyre feeling a little depressed and we need to try to get the energy up on this final panel of the day. Issues from the fragmenttation from political discourse and new pathways for misinformation, Voter Suppression to election security. This panel is going to add another challenge, the significant challenge that we face in election oversight and preparedness. But also, talk about the Solutions Space as well, which is quite simply what do we do . We have another phenomenal lineup to help answer these questions today. Sitting immediately to my left is the honorable ellen weintraub, the chair of the federal Elections Commission are, right, indeed. Well talk about that a little over the course of the panel, too. She has served as commiss
Political advertisements. Georgetowns Law Institute hosted this forum. Okay. So were reconvening for our fourth and final panel of the day. New challenges in election oversight and regulation. For those who didnt see me at the top of the day, im alexangra gibbons. I run ouw institute for Technology Law and policy here at the law school and were really thrilled to be hosting you all today. The conversation so far have surfaced many key areas of challenges. Somebody was saying that theyre feeling a little depressed and we need to try to get the energy up on the final panel of the day. Issues from the fragmentation of political discourse and new pathways for misinformation to voter suppression, to the technical challenges of election security. This panel is going to add another challenge the significant challenges we face in election oversight and preparedness. But also talk about the solution space as well which is quite simply, what do we do . We have another phenomenal lineup to help a