Economy. The latest numbers. Nearly 55 thousand confirmed corona coronavirus cases right now in california. More than 2200 people have died. Right here in the bay area there are nearly 8600 cases in 309 people have died. Down south in Los Angeles County the number of cases has now surpassed 25 thousand. As soon as the governors News Conference gets underway, we will take you there live. Today is the first day of relaxed stay at home conditions. Outdoor businesses are now back open. Outdoor activities including golf and skateboarding are allowed as long as collagen is followed. Construction workers and real a state agents can get back to work with social distancing at the new health guidelines. We are excited to see our new members get back to work. But more to support the critical and essential infrastructure that needs to continue. Officials warn the old rules could be put back into place if there is an uptick in new hospitalizations. Potential home buyers can go into houses occupied with real a state agents. Only the agent in two people are allowed inside at one time. They all have to wear personal protective equipment including a mask and social distancing must be maintained. The bay area has not been as hardhead as other regions. Will sell for less than 10 and agents are guardedly optimistic about new sales. It should quickly rebound based on the fact that there are so many buyers that wish to buy. There is concerned with so much unemployment and how much of an effect it will have and how much more it will take of a turn. Agents say there are not many bargains in the bay area. They hoped low rates will balance out the prices here. Businesses will can be back customers across a number of states in the country today but as Jonathan Serrie reports, officials and other places say it is too early to open. Reporter more than one dozen states leftparenthesis South Carolina and missouri will open restaurants and Retail Stores and all but three counties begin the first phase of reopening which requires restaurants to have outside seating and 25 capacity outside. These states have not reached the decrease in new cases recommended by the federal government. Social distancing will be strictly enforced. People have to do it safely. We want to make sure the virus doesnt get a foothold. Federal social distancing guidelines expired last week but some states are working to flatten the curve. Now they facepressure to reopen their economies. Stayathome protests took place in several states but officials warned rushing to reopen could put the country back at square one. You should be very afraid of us. Its killed a lot of people and it will continue to kill more people unless people stay at home. Spector places under stay at home orders places are looking to secure more widespread testing before reopening. Governors and seven Eastern States have agreed to establish a regional supply chain to help fight the virus. That will increase our market power when we are buying and we will buy as a consortium in price as price as a consortium. Washington state and oregon extended their stayathome policies for several more weeks. In atlanta, Jonathan Serrie, ktvu fox 2 news. And east bay testing site is in half. Drivethrough testing at the alameda fairgrounds in pleasanton will burn weekdays from 9 00 a. M. Until 1 00 p. M. It is open to people who live in dublin, pleasanton and livermore and who have covid19 symptoms or are considered vulnerable. In sacramento. Governor newsom. Lets listen in. Quarantine individuals who have contracted the covid19 disease and or has been somehow impacted or associated with those that might be be. We want to update you on the tracing technology we are putting into play in the training that will be advancing. Some of the recruitment we are doing to build a workforce to build an army so that we can meaningfully home order. I want to speak as well today about meaningfully modifying the state home order. We have plans to make adjustments later this week and then we will talk broadly about a series of updates related to our efforts to contain the virus. And moreover, to be sure we are prepared for the next phase as we begin to modify the state home order. Let me begin by focusing on the new partnership that we have advanced with ucs of and ucla. Ucsf and ucla will provide a Virtual Academy or a recruitment effort and training effort for new tracers. These are disease detectives that will be trained to support existing workforce that persists and exists throughout the state of california to begin the process of advancing the tracing regime that will substantially increase our current capacity. I will back up and explain what i mean by that specifically. Currently, every county does some form of tracing. Weve been doing tracing as it relates to disease, Infectious Disease for years and years and decades. As tvs and use of hiv and aids. Going back to tb and measles and other tracing capacity and weve been doing a lot of tracing since the beginning of this pandemic. You may recall that when we started doing this press conferences i would announce the number of people under investigation not just in our icus are hospitals but these are people that came on commercial flights from points of the globe primarily at the time from asia and county Health Officials were tracking and tracking from a Disease Control perspective. All counties have this tracing capacity in place. The question is how do you scale it so we can include covid19. 23 counties currently are actively tracing and all counties have a tracing component. 23 counties are actively tracing covid19 patients. Those are positive trying to figure out who they come out in contact with and if they test positive with to do the same and so on and so on. Isolating and quarantining individuals and it was all foundational. It could more quickly modify our stay at home order. This tracing that happening includes a workforce of 3000 people today. 2845 individuals to be exact. It is primarily conducted at the local level and there is 61 local levels and 58 counties and 61 Health Directors or Health Programs in the state of california. Long beach, pasadena and berkeley has their own unique status. I dont want to go down that rabbit whole except to say we are working with 61 different agencies and have to some degree tracing capacity. What we are doing is not working with them and purchase ship with ucsf and in partnership with ucla to have an Online Training academy to increase their workforce capacity. To reduce it to roughly 3000 people and have a capacity to train upwards of 3000 people a week to go to two phases in terms of building an army and workforce. 10thousand would be our first phase goal and 20 thousand our second phase gold on the high end about 20 thousand people into this workforce. First phase 10 thousand, second phase an additional 10 thousand. Building off the existing base of 3000. A virtual Training Academy that will include 12 hours of online instruction and eight hours of inperson instruction led by two of the most outstanding institutions in the u. S. , ucsf and ucla. The first training goes online this wednesday. As i said, this is a 20 hour course, 12 hours online and eight hours in person. The ability to scale this is about 3000 per weak in the first phase goal is 10 thousand into that workforce. Weve been working for weeks now with ucsf and ucla just to get the Training Academy right. To make sure the curriculum and the current protocols will meet the exact needs of our counties. When i say meet the needs of the counties this is important. It is a state led effort where we provide resources. We believe most of the resources will come from the federal government. They trace support as prescribed or comes through fema, reimbursements and or our emergency dollars. We will provide support to the counties but it will be county lead and it is foundational. The counties are the experts and we will provide the countys flexibility. But they will all feed into one database so there is integration and theres capacity for information sharing in real time. The anchor are the two ucs and the workforce that is a surge workforce that comes from existing employees that we can be redeployed at the county level and existing paid state employees that can be redeployed at the state level. Cal hr, our Human Resource team, has already been identifying individuals that we believe at the right kind of background, cultural sensitivity and cultural competency. Different language skills. A health mindset. Weve been scouring that workforce. We believe we have well beyond the capacity that would be interested in this training. If we dont we will supplement that. We are complement with these efforts. All of our agencies are doing the work to identify these individuals. The first cohort starts getting trained this wednesday. All of this is in important. It is good news. It is important because it allows us to move forward with some modifications of our stay at home order. I made a point a few weeks back we needed to improve our testing. Testing and tracing. We tend to use those hand in hand. The testing is taking off. We are r 30 thousand tests a day. Roughly 768 thousand tests that have been conducted and reported in this state, we believe there are substantially more tests being done. The reporting is getting done in the testing is scaling about where we hoped it would be. Weve averaged 25 thousand over the last seven days and over the weekend averaged over 30 thousand tests per day and testing is the backbone of the tracing component requires a workforce and an element of cooperation building on the existing county supports and building capacity will substantially help aid our efforts. Identify individuals tested positive and identify contacts with privacy first always. Then begin the prophesies as required to isolate individuals and potentially quarantining individuals so they dont impact and infect other people. Dr. Angel will talk more about this in a moment. I wanted to tee up the second point. The movement into the second phase. About one week ago today i said we are weeks, if not months away , from moving into a second phase. On friday we are days not weeks away from announcing that movement into the second phase. Today we are announcing our efforts to update our stay at home guidelines and begin the process of moving into phase two. That process will begin later this week. On thursday, the seventh, we will put out the guidelines. If the guidelines are met and modifications made, then people can reopen with those modifications in these particular sectors as early as friday. Again the modifications and adaptations need to be in place before we can move into that second phase. It could begin as early as the end of this week. Here is the phase we are moving into later this week. We mentioned phase two included in earlier and later consideration meaning low risks and moving into a little bit too medium to higher risk as we phase into these four phases. Lower risk is again the frame around us phase two. Lower risk we are defining in the Retail Sector we will be making adjustments this week in the Retail Sector for pickups and for all of the associated logistics and manufacturing related to retail. Let me be more precise about what i mean by retail. As early by the end of this week you will have the capacity as a retailer with the modifications in the guidelines we set fourth on thursday to begin to reopen for pickup. Othing, bookstores, music, toys, Sporting Good stores, florists with mothers day coming up. Other sectors or rather other businesses within that Retail Sector and the support and accessory support on logistics and manufacturing within and around those sectors will be allowed to move forward into this phase two. We are also allowing considerations of additional criteria. The ability for containment plans and protection plans to be put into place in regions and throughout the state of california where he recognized their different conditions. We believe different criteria should be put into place. We are announcing today the capacity for these other counties and regions to move further into phase two. Plans need to be locally certified and with plans locally certified by criteria that includes the capacity on testing, the capacity and tracing. The capacity on physical distancing distancing, and sanitation. The capacity to protect the most vulnerable in their community. Seniors and congregate facilities. Those incarcerated or homeless or other individuals. If those criteria can be self assessed and self certified by the local Health Official in concurrence with the county supervisors it could be self certified and tested to and concerns with the local Health Official and county supervisor. We will allow Additional Movement through phase two. That , and let me be specific, the prospects of restaurants, hospitality more broadly in opening an account modification. Not into phase three yet but well interface through. Primarily in the restaurant space and other specific capacities. Again they have to be done in the thoughtful and judicious way and the health first focus and indicators have to be maintained in dr. Angel will talk about with those indicators look like. Stable and in and hospitalizations and icu over 14 days and testing and tracking capacity. One thing i know very well. Many of these counties and regions have done a ton of work in the space. They are ready to go. I have Great Expectations that you will see a lot of these communities with local certification in place. All of those will be made public. All of those have to be done through a process that goes to the California Department of Public Health where that adaptation and testament at the local level certification of all those conditions and criteria from health frame are going to be met. Once that is done we need active monitoring, surveillance, and to make sure the disease is not spreading. If it is one of the criterias trigger to be modified the changes. We want folks to know we need to toggle back and forth on the basis of whats happening in those communities in real time. Trust me. I know this can sound very confusing. Before i bring up dr. Angel, who will make it much more simple, and as of slideshow to reinforce that. We are entering into the next phase this week. The end of the week with modificationsstart operating across the spectrum. We will allow regional variation but only after Self Certification of particular criteria that will allow even further implementation of our phase two. Its a positive sign and its happened only for one such reason. The data says it can happen. But we recognize as we begin to modify behaviors modify and possible Community Spread may occur. If that is the case and we dont have the capacity controls that spread to trace and track the spread and isolate individuals that may have been in contact with covid19. We will have to make modifications of the new. This is a sober announcement. Its done on the basis of Health Directors and local communities pending our effort here at the state and i want to thank everyone for their collaborative spirit and hard work. We put these modifications into play. One final point and i will put it over to dr. Angel. We are not telling locals that feel it is too soon or too fast to modify. We believe those local communities that have separate timelines should be afforded the capacity to advance those timelines. So let me unpack that. For example. The bay area and Northern California they have guidelines where they are a little more strict than these guidelines. If they choose not to come into compliance with the state guidelines they have that right. Others because conditions are very different in the bay area and other parts of the state and more rural parts of the state as an example, they may want to go even further. Again we will look for them that right with those conditions and modifications that meet the health needs of the entire state. None of us are isolated. Query may be more so in terms of our proximity to others but none of us are immune or isolated from people traveling within and out of these communities back and forth and we have to manage this from a broader perspective. Not just a small perspective but we do, nonetheless, recognize the variations and diversity across the state. Thus, the ability to grow stronger or to modify and begin to loosen up even more. So, if that hasnt confused you. The good news, i hope to in miliary that concern. We will have dr. Angel more succinctly put this into perspective. With the slideshow to back that up and of course we will answer questions for additional clarification. This is an optimistic day as we see a little ray of sunshine on the horizon. Adaptation, modification, 1st and foremost but as you see with the report card the doctor and her Health Report card that we are putting out today and why we are in a position to make this announcement. Dr. Angel . Thank you, governor. It is a pleasure to join you again to talk about this very positive opportunity we have moving forward here. This is the data telling us that we can but it is only a reflection of all the hard work all of us here in california have done. All the people who have stayed home and worked in our essential workforce to make sure we can stay home safely, thats where we are where we are today. I want a reminder about our specific goals as we move forward through this process. Until california is protected. Until we have immunity and is it safe trust to move without modifications. We will keep four things in mind. First of all, no matter what we do we want to maintain and ensure our ability to care for the sick within our hospitals. Making sure our Delivery System is essential. As we move forward, as the governor said, as we move out of our homes we increase the risk of people getting sick. When people get sick we want to protect them. We are very focused on mak