Thank you very much, bob. About the checks coming to your cover your face, that is the wallet even if youre not a advice from Health Care Workers whether youre going to the Business Owner. The checks will start rolling doctors office, maybe even just out in two weeks. Going for a walk or heading out the first check hitting around for some essential supplies. Cover it all up. April 13th. That is if you have direct deposit. If the government has your direct deposit info on file you will start getting those checks. Kriz sanch kris sanchez has more on this. If not, it could take several dont go hunting for the medical months. Grade masks. Reporter any simple scarf will do. However, theres supposed to i found this one in my have a place where you can daughters room, wrap it around a couple times. The idea is not to filter out update your information so look the virus. Do that out for that. As for the money for Small Businesses its 350 billion without medical grade equipment but the idea is
A very good friday morning we do have that lower deck. To you. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. An earlier crash, a tow truck well get to your traffic and weather in just a bit. And crews there. Three out of your five lanes are first lets look at the headlines. Closed. Two lanes are still open and at the stroke of midnight a few lighter traffic is able to still hours ago banks began accepting get by. Loan applications from small youll find slowing there mid businesses that comes from the 2 trillion stimulus package. Span. No delay so you can use the bridge eastbound as an speaking of which were alternate. Back to you. Getting a clearer picture when thank you, mike. Americans will start getting coming up next on today in their stimulus checks and the the bay we speak to the wait for some may be months. Archbishop of the Catholic Church in San Francisco this well dive deeper into the morning. The changes the church is headlines. First a check of the forecast with meteorologist
These are live pictures from our nbc bay area sky ranger. It seems police are blocking off the entrance to disrupt the protest. Well continue to follow the developing story and bring you updates as we get them. Just in, an update on the number of covid19 casarea. Right now there are nearly 3,000. 77 people have died so far. Santa clara county is still the bay areas hot zone with San Francisco county coming in second with nearly 500 cases. The city of fremont just opening its first free covid19 testing site. We first told you about this during today in the bay this morning. Nbc bay areas bob redell joining us live. Bob, how has the turnout been so far . Reporter marcus, weve seen i would guesstimate 40 to 50 cars so far. Its not the kind of turnout we saw a couple of weeks ago at the city of haywards test site when hundreds of people showed up on the first day. The city of fremont opened its r at stephenson boulevard at 10 00 this morning, in partnership with the city of hayward. Drivet
Per month. 5 million within a month i doubt we will need anywhere near that. Reporter is a large part of President Trumps plans to expand Testing Capacity nationwide. Through a number of private labs. As for who should be tested that process will start with a website that is supposed to go live on sunday. Clients and patients and people of interest can go fill out a screening questionnaire. The goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and be swabbed without having to leave your car. I want to thank google. Google is helping to develop a website. It is going to be very quickly done. People are frustrated. They were promised the federal and state level everyone could be tested and that wasnt reality. At the local level we are doing our best to test those that meet criteria. Reporter Health Officials just arent using private labs to expand their Testing Capacity. Testing gives us more information about how Much Community transmission as they are. Our advice of isolation quarantine s
There he said it President Trump has now declared the coronavirus pandemic a National Emergency the president laid out his strategy to slow down covid 19 and just moments ago he tweeted out his support for the Families First Coronavirus Response act it provides free testing and paid sick leave for workers who are affected all of this as us cases soar past 2300 and here in the bay area. Well santa clara and San Francisco counties are further restricting large gathering stories now in the newsroom as kron fours dan kerman with the latest on the president s announcement then well this is the National Emergency that we keep expecting the Trump Administration now calling for. The latest attempt to slow the spread of this virus so it doesnt overwhelm the health care community. The president is stepping up the federal response to the covid 19 coronavirus pandemic. To unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort today i am officially declaring a National Emergency. The ord