With specific conditions. The new orders cover everyone livering and working in the counties of alameda, contra costa, marin, San Francisco, san mateo and santa clara. We have much, much more to learn. We also continue to learn from experiences across the world, and we understand that many areas have suffered a sharp resurgence in cases when they have lifted sheller in place too soon. And the impact so to the health and wellness of our residents as well as to our economy. Health Officials Say they will be monitoring five indicaters to decide whether to further ease restrictions. They include whether the number of cases is flat or decreeing. If corona virus. Here in the bay area, there are more than 7500 cases and 277 deaths. We look now to the governor giving us a briefing and more on when california can reopen and how. California is struggling. Those that are just doing take out, struggling to keep those doors open. Others struggling to keep tabs on their employees are now on unemployment. Others that have not even imagined the prospect of being able to even open modestly for takeout. We have seniors and millions of seniors in the state of california. Many with no access to nutritious food, no access to prepared meals. No capacity at home. If isolated to even prepare those meals in the first place. And so we advanced a framework to begin the process of reopening restaurants to start to provide those meals. Three meals a day delivered, packaged, prepared. Delivered to the doorstep of seniors all throughout the state of california. That program now is just starting to take shape and cities and counties, large and small, all across the state. The state of california put out the framework and it is the citys responsibility to engage the restaurants and work through the protocols. We have seen cities like l. A. And others excel in this space and we are very encouraged by this program. In that same spirit, in that same framework of collaboration and partnership, today we are announcing a strategy to do the same around food, but now focusing on farms and families. Focusing on the issues that obviously are front and center all across the nation and that is issues of food banks and how we can do more to help support our farmers and help support farmworkers, and also help support food banks here in the state of california. This new initiative that we are launching today is a partnership between the federal government, the state of california, and philanthropy. It is a strategy that is rather simple. Currently, our farmers, our ranchers are experiencing about a 50 reduction in demand. So it is a jawdropping reduction in demand. They have excess produce. They have excess commodities that they simply in many respects as parishable items. Some of them. They cannot distribute. We have food banks that have on the average seen a 73 spike in demand. Here we are in the world. California, and mand. And so that is the announcement today to work with the ranchers, to work with the farmers, to connect them to the food banks, and do so in a way that jumpstarts our capacity to deliver nutritious food, high quality, locallyproduced produce, poultry, and dairy and the like to those most in need in the state of california. The partnership currently has about 128 farmers and ranchers providing food to 41 food banks being distributed in 58 counties. The goal is to provide 21 Million Pounds of fresh food and Fresh Produce on a monthly basis. 20 to 21 Million Pounds of Fresh Produce and other commodities to our food banks. We have raised some 3. 6 millions to jumpstart this program. We extend this program through the end of the year, and are blessed philanthropy, i taylor who has been passionate in this space. She is committed to raising some 15 million. She initiated a contribution to that and to help get this partnership in place and help us launch it. But it is that partnership between our federal government, between state agencies, between philanthropy, and then our farmers and our farmworkers that will pick and pack and distribute this Fresh Produce and these other commodities to our food banks. We are very excited and enlightened by this program and i want to thank and ill introduce her in a moment our secretary of agriculture. She has helped spearhead this effort and advanced this cause and brought some of the biggest brands foster farms to californ association, the Dairy Association bringing others on the sunkissed citrus side, pacific producers, a partnership out here on the Pacific Coast even doing fruit bowls and the like. Again, all of this in the spirit of collaboration to provide these new food packs to families in need. I can asure you if you look back on the last recession, you would not have seen these food packs with so many nutritional items that would immediately distribute them. We are very excited about this. It is the spirit that finds the best of california and spirit, but certainly i hope will enliven people all across the state of california. I want to just mention in terms of our food banks and the incredible pressure we are facing. Contributed because of the support of the legislature, the assembly and the Senate Democrats and republicans supporting our food banks. We are able to distribute 20 million of emergency grants to our food banks to enhance and advance our efforts in terms of providing these food boxes to families in need. We also announce a National Guard the First Mission of the National Guard during this pandemic was a human tar yan mission to support our food banks. We also worked in lab are tiff spirit with partners like americorp that have done amazing job. Team rubicon that has done the same volunteers all in an effort to subsidize not only the increase in demand, but the decrees in volunteering in this pandemic took shape. They have substantially addressed all the of this issuingsment the website. The food banked still need more volunteers. I want to acknowledge athe partnerships. Americorp and volunteer who is are really helping support the distribution of food from those most in need. So connecting californias farms, farmworkers. Connecting the cause of our food banks, getting product and produce that otherwise would literally be thrown away as waste and now providing a tax credit to the farmers of 15 and providing a wage to the farmworkers and getting philanthropy to help support this and getting those federal dollars drawn down that otherwise would not be drawn down is the spirit of the announcement today. But there are two other components that i want to share as well. We got two waivers from the federal government. One waiver is rather significant. The Calfresh Program, our food stamp program. The Calfresh Program can now today provide access to commodities op line. So if you have a calfresh debit card, you can now go online and utilize calfresh at scale. We start with just two partners for the moment. That is amazon and walmart, and so that is just for the moment. Amazon, walmart, but now you can shop online with cal fresh. We want to expand those partnerships beyond walmart and amazon. Ill announce that. We are affording in to our waiver for everybody in the state of california. I say everybody. About 2. 2 million housemolds u. Over 4 Million People to access that opportunity online today as well. The second waiver that i wanted to mention. The third announcement of the day is also a rather cig enough cant one. Because of the work that speaker nancy pelosx others, we were successful in being the beneficiary and the recipient of a pandemic eb, the program. We were able to work with our fellow partners on an additional waiver for this program to provide up to 365,000 additional dollars. An additional 365 available you under this pack chemic program for children and families that otherwise would have gotten the benefit of reduced or free breakfast and lunch in the Public School system. Because we shut down the schools, doing the Distance Learning at home, but the physical schools are shut down. Those meals with universe of roughly 3. 8 million children that are eligible for those programs. Those programs so are not providing, in every case, those meals, and so this pandemic ebt program will make available a universe of up to 1. 4 billion for 3. 8 million eligible families. Again, that is the universe of possible to begin to utilize those dollars from that cares act to advance their nutritional needs. So we think that is a cig enough cant thing. I couldnt be more pleased and proud of the work that kim johnson has done, our department of social services to help organize and set up that program. As a framework for that eligibility is about a 64day period from march to middle of june. But the universe of available dollars is rather large, and we just want to make sure it is socialized and we doing everything in our power to get that information out there, and of course, encourage others that may know people that fall into that category of being eligible for free or reduced breakfast and lunch programs to know that these dollars are available for them through the ebt program and were going to do our best to get that in peoples pockets because we deeply recognize peoples food insecurity. Not just their economic insecurity and we dont want to compass bait that to the extent that we can. So partnerships with our food banks. Partnerships with our farms and ranchers. Partnerships with local producers to help local food banks. Partnerships in terms of any listen there by and volunteers. People doing more to create more access and opportunity and not just in person, but now also online to draw down eligible dollars has brought a waiver for our kids in Public Schools. In our farms and ranchers. Partnerships with local producers to help local food banks. Partnerships in terms of philanthropy and volunteers. People doing more to create more access and opportunity and you not just in person, but now also online to draw down eligible dollars, federal dollars in the program and now this brought a waiver for our kids a very proud and very pleased to be able to make these announcements today in the spirit of our times, in the spirit of california. It often takes a year. Now, we need to do in months. It takes a month what we need to do in weeks. It take weeks what we need to do in days. What we used to do in days we needed to do in hours. I recognize. Every day i come here making announcements. Also following up on what we can to meet this moment. And so one of them, ill just offer the mic here in a moment is our secretary of agriculture who has been fighting for some of these programs for years since my days as lieutenant governor. I have heard her talk about these programs and again proving a point. In just a few weeks, she was able to put something together that she had been talking about for years. Our secretary of agriculture. Thank you, governor. And thank you for your leadership. We appreciate your support. We appreciate everyones support for really looking for our farmers this year have found through quite a shelflife like all of us have. They are working every day to continue the kind of bountiful, nutritious productivity that is a hallmark of california. We are blessed to have the farmers and ranchers and farmworkers that we have. The leader of fruits and vegetables. The shock to closing down food service has ramifications for how we all shop and eat these days. 50 of our food dollars are spent in the food service arena, no longer in retail like it used to be. And that has backed up product. And because it is so parishable, some of it has just come out of the ground. Y. We have a program that was in place because of foresight of growers working with Second Harvest out of oakland 15 years ago to say at any time of the year, we have markets that are not absorbing all of our crop, but we dont want it to go to waste. We want the citizens of california to have access to that healthy food. They ran a Pilot Program that lead to the California Association of food banks developing the farmtofamily program. I am proud that when i was a member of the state board of agriculture, we created a partnership to make sure that we could take this program statewide and use it to prevent waste, to use but to get all that is good that we grow in this state, to the citizens of this state. But is a highly developed network. It has lo jest logistics like any other food distributer does. It has four regional coordinators that go on with donations from our growers and our ranchers. They take straight donations and often times if there is just not enough money to cover the farmers cost for harvesting that, they are will pay a portion of the harvest cost to be able to get it transported into the Central Food Bank so it can be repackaged and distribute ised up and down serving all 58 counties. It is a i believer because we had it in place believe because we had it in place, we were able to prevent extensive food waste that was bound to happen because of the suddenness of the change in our economy and our buying habits. I also want to thank the people on our state board who have a Standing Task force around food banks and food insecurity. They are meeting even as we are here today discussing not only the shortterm ways to respond to the tremendous need of our citizens but also what we have in place longterm to be able to insure that every child, every senior citizen, every family has access to healthy californiagrown fruit, vegetables. Poultry, beef. We have it all. All 400 commodities. Looking forward to working with the governor to extending in program. Thank you very much. Thank you madame secretary. As i say, secretary ross has been working on this program for years. It is a very important program, but it is never scaled to the extent now. I noted 128 participants. She has already identified over 200 additional farmers and ranchers that want to participate in this program because of this jumpstart, we believe it will substantially and cig enough cantly expand in realtomb and thanks to her leadership, i am confident that will take shape to benefit hundreds of thousands of families all up and down the state. Well have these quality opportunities to get americas finest produce and some of the finest citrus. I wont go through the list. From dairy and rice, but you get the picture. Were very grateful that people will go be getting these. By the way, for what it is worth, i say food boxes. We are literally organizing these in boxes. The 20 milliondollar emergency grant. About 900,000 of these boxes went out. It provides for a family of three or four. It is not just canned items. It is again all of these other parishable items that are fresh and ready to be consumed. Market demands dropped in half would otherwise as we said go to waste. And so that is the importance of the architecture of this program and power of this program as well. Let me just extend this as we do daily a little bit of an update before we open it to questions from folks on a number of key issues and indicaters of this state. Yesterday, we talked about a number of indicaters and growth that we believe are beginning to turn green. If some are yellow and some are still red. Yesterday as it relates to businesses and schools. And on childcare facilities. Very talked about moving from this phase that we define as phase one into phase two in a matter of weeks and not months. We talked about phase three and four being months, not weeks. One of the critical indicaters that is probably in all of our discussions is the number of people whose lives are lost to this pandemic and the number of people hospitalized and the number of people in our icus. I mentioned last week we started to see a Record Number of deaths in the state of california. I began this week by announcing that tragically we had lost 45 lives on monday. 54 lives yesterday. About half of the daily number of families that have been torn apart because of this virus compared to the prior week. Unfortunately today, we did go back to 78 families. So again, we it is just a reminder that we are not out of the woods yet. A reminder of the importance to stay at home. A reminder of the importance and potency and power you have as an individual in terms of physically distancing from others and continuing to practice social distancing. Accordingly, while we are seeing these numbers of hospitalized patients flatten and become relatively stable in the state, i mentioned yesterday it went up modestly about 21. 2 . Still within the margin of stability. Again, not where we want to see those numbers. We dont want to see a stable flat curve. We want to see that curve decline significantly. 4 decline in the number. Or rather. 4 increase from a decline yesterday. A modest decline in the icus. But we certainly are seeing stability in our icus. And that allows our ventilation inventory to be now north of 10,500. That is just within our 416 hospitals and in addition to that, our own state capacity in terms of our reserves and those that we have obviously lent to other states across the country. So again, encouraging, but by no stretch of the imagination where we ultimately need to see those numbers go in order to sustained decrees. But certainly still, in the frame that has been over the course of the last few weeks. We want to update you just briefly on the incredible call volume. Every day or every other day updated you the work we are trying to do to prove your experience and your capacity of access and distribution of benefits and funds through our Unemployment Insurance system. Approximate. 7 Million People have filed for unemployment march 19. They have distributed now just shy of over 6 billion. Not just shy. They have distributed over 6 billion of ben put thes. 1. 2 billion just yesterday. Just in a 24hour period, they were able to distribute 1. 2 billion. We saw not surprisingly a spike in anally cautions yesterday. We a spike in applications. We saw 235,000 people apply for Unemployment Insurance and the new pua program. That is a panellic unapliantment assistance for people who are selfemployed and people who are independent contractors, gigworkers and the like. That was the first day that we had that system operational. You remember to unpack those numbers and it