19 deaths. A look at the coronavirus headlines. Cars are lined up for blocks. If you can get to the hayward site Health Officials are turning most away. The lab is dealing with a backlog. They have to get back up to speed which would mean testing 370 people a day. Suspending lights rail service after a training operated tested positive. They are sanitizing all vehicles the training may have used. Buses are an option for people who need them. Stunning new data on how hospitals are coping with the rise in the coronavirus cases. Kaiser permanente said nearly half of the beds are filled with covid19 patients. The hospital has 242 beds. A quarter of the infected patients are in intensive care. What is more alarming is doctors say they have seen patients conditions go from relatively stable to serious and just a matter of hours. The hospital also said the patients requiring ventilators usually need treatment for 10 to 14 days. Santa clara has the highest number of cases with more than 459. T
Or Health Department must be vetted by the Vice President s office. President trump does not seem worried about the outbreak. Theyre doing a great job. Its going to disappear, one day its like a miracle, it will disappear. Every single delay in testing means potentially the virus could go to hundreds or thousands or more people. Health Officials Say theyre concerned about the virus. Governor newsom talked about this last night. Clearly more Tech Companies are concerned about the coronavirus as theyre pulling out of conferences because of the virus. Overnight docusign canceling its annual users event scheduled for next week. They will hold a Virtual Conference instead. Facebook says it will not be holding its annual f8 conference in san jose. The company says it must prioritize the health and safety of everyone putting on the event and planning to attend it. In japan, Tokyo Disneyland will be closed starting tomorrow through march 15th, this is all due to coronavirus concerns. That mean
Drop in temperatures. 60s at 4 00. The rest of us in the 70s. Jobina . Happy friday to you. We made it. We have our mass transit updates. Ferries running with no delays. B. A. R. T. Has 12 training running on time. Ace 1 is on time as well. I have a vta commuter alert. The blue and green lines will have a bus bridge in place between the karina and civic center stations. Julian and kumasi . Thank you. Some developing news to get to. Countries around the world are taking steps this morning to protect their Public Transit systems from the spread of the coronavirus. In the bay area, transit officials are preparing. Amy hollyfield is live in walnut creek with more on this. Amy . Hi, good morning. B. A. R. T. Officials say right now theyre not doing anything major yesterday. Theyre taking a wait and see approach. So its business as usual right now. The b. A. R. T. Board of directors had a lot of questions yesterday for the general manager at the Board Meeting about what was being don trepare
The Korea Foundation and the ambassador here to give some opening remarks. Before before i introduce them, is would like to say a few words about safety. We feel very secure in our building but we have a duty to prepare for any event. My name is lisa collins. Im a fellow and i will serve as your responsible Safety Officer for this event. Please follow my instructions should the need arise. Please also familiarize yourself with emergency exits in the back of the room on the right and on the left. Now to introduce our first two speakers, the investor is currently the president of international pretty with the deputy of state and the Deputy Assistant secretary for defense for asia and east Pacific Affairs in the office of defense. Is he has had a distinguished career in government and policy. He was south koreas ambassador to the oecd from 2013 until 2015. Investor lee has had a long esteemed career working in south koreas ministry of foreign affairs. They will give her marks first follow
Military. And we make a as you know, our Quarterly Report is the largest data call that goes out every year to the u. S. Government, or every quarter on whats going on. When we ask these questions, were not getting answers anymore because stick ka, because our resources in the field are not there to answer them. Youre on to a very important part that goes beyond the literacy issue. It goes to the heart of the issue and that is do we have adequate resource to understand the capabilities of the andsf. Thank you. Anyone else want to comment on that . Compared to two years ago i think if threat to our personnel who are serving in afghanistan has grown. And im particularly concerned about our embassies wity and th inability of our personnel to move around the city of kabul or even well or anywhere else. So my first question is, do you think that the danger there has increased, and what if anything can we do to mitigate those concerns . So, since the drawdown of u. S. And Coalition Forces, t