Including clothing shops, bookstores and force but they have to follow strict social distancing rules and did not covered dine in restaurants or hair salons. In the meantime there are more than 60,000 cases of covid19 here in california as well as 2464 deaths and more than 9100 coronavirus cases in the bay area alone. Our region has seen 341 deaths. Eating at restaurants will look and feel a lot different after the pandemic. The industry of local leaders, Health Officials are proposing new guidelines when it comes to dining out. Ktvu allie rasmus reports. Reporter imagine seeing plastic partitions in between tables. One idea to reopen Indoor Dining safely. Other books include only seating 12 or similar people. Eliminating buffets and Hand Sanitizer. And food learners bringing out your meal who wear facemasks. The Association Confirms it sent a letter with these proposals looking ahead 20 restaurants will get the green light to be open completely. Local leaders in the bay area are working with the Restaurant Industry to make changes. If restaurants were allowed to open their doors tomorrow, they would have to take out half of their tables. In some restaurants would never open their doors because of that. They are considering closing off sections to allow restaurants to set up tables in the streets. We know restaurants cant use all of their tables. In order to pay the bills they have to have spaces out in the openair. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association in San Francisco is asking city leaders there to do the same. In the latter the gg ra reference the slow streets programs that limits cars for pedestrians and cyclists. Governor newsom now delivering his daily news conference. Lets listen into the governor. Remarkably, one year ago, we were debating on balancing a budget with the 1. 34 operating surplus. That was projected by our finance team. It was supported broadly by the experts looking at the project. 1. 34million operating surplus. We were effective in balancing last years budget so much so that our bond rating was increased last year and people were very appreciative that we were able to pay down this wall of debt that former Governor Brown talk talk so often about. We were able to get rid of gimmicks. The budgetary gimmicks that were so much a part of californias recent past. We were able to move forward deliberately and to be thoughtful about the utilization of surplus dollars and creating additional reserve accounts and a safety net reserve account we were able to bolster up we were able to put down a marker that we would commit to the longterm. I dont know a state in last year that used its operating surplus at the level the state of california did and over 9 billion we committed to pay down longterm pension obligations. Miss many fiscal hawks recognize the work of the state of california and we use the onetime dollar overwhelmingly and use their surplus for one time investments. And we worked very closely to make investments that are ongoing. We are focusing on our children and youth in childcare programs and preschool programs and focusing on Public Health. That was one year ago this week. Here we are now one year later and i want to give you a sense of the enormity of the task now at hand. I submitted in january to the California Legislature a projected budget into the new fiscal year. Building on last years efforts also projected a surplus. A 6 billion surplus in this is 90 days ago. Not one year ago. Just 90 days ago. We introduced a budget projecting another 6 million budget surplus. We were referencing a few weeks later that we had hit a milestone, 120 consecutive months of job growth. We had the lowest unemployment in modern recorded history in the state of california. People were feeling a great sense of optimism about our fate and future. We started to see, stoppin thought was Real Progress in addressing the issue that defined so much of california struggle and that is the issue of disparities. This bifurcated hybrid reality many live in. Those who are struggling to recover from the 2008, 2009 great recession. We were going to close the gaps and address those issues in disparity in poverty income. That was 90 days ago. Here we are today. Our department of finance put out a minimum and participation of the release. We are seeing tens of billions of dollars of shortfalls and all specifically related to covid19 and to this pandemic. It is not surprising. Weve been foreshadowing this for many, many weeks. For many months this has been foreshadowed as this is a global pandemic. There is not an economy that has subsequently, at least, been immune. Some a little less so from the collateral consequences as this pandemic relates to their economy. Every state in the u. S. Will be struggling with unprecedented shortfalls that happened in such a short period of time. California is no different. What is different as we are the worlds fifth largest economy. Our budget is larger than 20 states combined in terms of population. It gives you a sense of the scope and scale. So when you see those numbers they should get your attention, and understandably so. What may not get as much attention and i think deserves your attention equally as we are better positioned to deal with this short hop all that we have short hop falls of the past. California went through a very challenging time in 2003. The magnitude of the deficit was greater in percentage terms than the deficit we face. 2009 was a jawdropping challenge for that administration and that legislature. They were trying to balance roughly a 60 billion budget shortfall. It may have been larger in percentage terms than the states current shortfall. But they were not as well positioned because of the fiscal management proceeding that to whether that deficit. We will get through this. This will be challenging. We will get through it by working together with the collaborative period of shared responsibility. Ive had the privilege of meeting with the leadership of the assembly and the senate and budget chairs. Their respective colleagues to give them a sense and scope of magnitude and i have great expectation and confidence that we will do everything we can to protect the most california vulnerable californians. But i will say this. My optimism is conditioned on this. More federal support. The end of the day with this happening in such a short period of time we are seeing economic numbers. The unemployment numbers. 4. 3million people. Almost 12 billion. 11. 9billion of unemployment claims have been processed. Checks have been cut just since march 15th. Again, march 15th. Not january 15th. It gives you a sense of the magnitude. Those unemployment numbers will translate into economic numbers and unemployment that are more acute than anything we have seen in modern times. The budget, however, because of the acuity of this crisis, we believe is manageable if the federal government helps support states like ours. It is incumbent upon our federal partners to recognize, and as many do and one that surely does is speaker nancy pelosi. The magnitude of this moment and how it is directly related to covid19 and not mismanagement. A 20 4. 4 billion dollars budget surplus. 6billion projected surplus 90 days ago. Paying down longterm pension obligation and balancing budgets with record reserves. See bond rating agencies look at the facts and adjudicate them. Record low unemployment and we in real Economic Growth as the worlds fifth largest economy. Because of this pandemic. Because of what it has done these revenue shortfalls are bigger than even the state of california. We need the federal government to recognize this. Its not about our state, its about our firefighters. Its about our nurses. Its about our tshirts and frontline employees we call heroes for good reason. They are the real, real victims at this moment of these potential shortfalls and we have to do everything in our power to protect them and to protect the most vulnerable californians that need the supports now more than ever because their personal finances are more devastating than the states physical condition. We have to recognize that this moment requires an historic effort of partnership, not just between the governor and the legislature but between the states and our federal government. We are very grateful for the support weve already received. It has been bipartisan and we are grateful to the leadership of both parties for their support, and the president of the United States for his concurrence in terms of those obligations. The last cares act has been profoundly beneficial. Sadly, the enormity of this moment requires more support. Not just for states but for cities and counties. They are on the front lines of addressing this pandemic. When i say the front lines they are the ones that hire your local Police Officers and firefighters. These counties hiring nurses and doctors. The Skilled Nursing facilities and the incredible work the men and women are doing in our assisted living facilities. County employees, not just state employees. The state of california is the most perfect than any other state in the country. The impact on counties and have been affected in significant ways. This is not a cry by any stretch. We are proud of our state to meet the moment and be resilient. We are proud of the work that is being done. Former Governor Brown and legislatures get physical help back in shape. But this is bigger than all of us and we really need the federal government to do more and help us through this moment. We will do everything we are responsible for doing and more. The punch above our weight. We come back more vibrant and resilient. One thing we all know its a lot more than we did know before this crisis. We know our limitations. We know our capacity. We are breaking through limitations. Breaking through our previous belief systems. We are inventing the future in real time. Just ask our teachers that are doing distance learning. They are able to do it in heroic ways almost overnight. Ask so many of our employers and entrepreneurs that have broken through with additional renovations in terms of title work and the other capacity to organize differently. The teams of employees is essential and nonessential. The creativity of folks in government that meet in this moment in historic ways and protect you and keep you healthy. Not only in our Hospital System but alternative care sites all across our state and nation. Im not being paul janish. But i am being sober about the reality that we cannot do it alone. We continue to enjoy extraordinary relationships with our elected officials and democrats and republicans here in the state. We need everyone moving together. Its not a Randall County issue or blue county issue. Its about human beings. They need government with great need in great stress, more than they ever have in our lifetimes. And we are capable of meeting that moment together. That is the spirit we will bring in the next five or six weeks as we work through our balanced budget. One thing we dont have as a nation state is that printing press. That is what distinguishes federal government from state governments. We do have an entrepreneurial mindset and we believe in accountability. We will do our best but we are certainly dealing with the crisis that is global in its scope and impact. Clearly, california is not immune from those impacts. I just wanted on the top to lead with a little bit of news in that respect. And know that we are working very, very closely with the legislature to do what we can and with leadership particularly, nancy pelosi to see what we can get done. As it relates to getting things done and taking accounts and responsibility. As it relates to moving forward today we are announcing some specific milestones that we believe we have reached based upon health and data and our scientific analysis of where we are as it relates to the state of covid19 and thats it relates to the spread of this disease. We laid out a number of weeks ago a roadmap for recovery and we put forward six specific indicators that will guide our termination of one week and make meaningful modifications to that roadmap and begin to reopen our economy with conditions and with modifications. We socialize more specifically to that last week. We previewed it the beginning of this week and by thursday, today, we would put out guidelines to what we refer to as phase two of our reopening plan and thats exactly what we are doing here today. Dr. Galli will come up and go through a slide presentation and be much more specific about exactly what these guidelines offer and what they dont. We will put out details about what we are looking for from counties that wish to go farther than the state wide modifications, all within the framework of stage two. We have been working with counties large and small all across the state. Including those that have gotten ahead of themselves and pulled them back in and the spirit of collaboration and cooperation. We have been advised by our team of economic advisers, remarkable work has been done that allow for 33 modifications of our own guidance that came directly out of our jobs and Recovery Task force in the advisors. Again, i will put up the task force advisers against any and we could not be more proud of the work that are task force is doing in the incredible men and women participating. Including a wonderful call was over 100 advisors in every sector of our economy. From the wellknown brand names, by mager and tim cook including going even higher to April Barrett talking about the power and potency of people we used to walk by and never nod and acknowledge that now we call heroes she put a human face on what is its stake in house there is a socioeconomical dimension. I could not be more proud of all of them and they helped us advise this effort and help this curate more specific guidelines that we are putting out here today. The guidelines we are focused on today are expanding opportunities in the Retail Sector, the Manufacturing Center in the logistics center. All with adaptations and modifications in an eye on turning the page and moving into a new phase in terms of our economic recovery. The doctor will lay out more specifics in terms of each sector and what we are looking for and talk about what we are looking for in terms of getting deeper into the second phase of what that looks like from a dining incapacity. And not just take out and provide the ability to dine in. We talk about outdoor museums opening up carwashes and the prospect of them opening up serious landscaping. I could go on and on. They would be more cogent but you get a sense that we are moving forward we are doing it always with the night being led by the data, by the science and by Public Health in these Public Health and disease. He will lay out what we are counting on which is consistency in terms of capacity. Capacity to meet these indicators on testing and tracing and tracking in support of isolation and issues related to hospital search and how we manage the needs of our most formidable californians. Seniors and homeless. Those in custody that are vulnerable to this pandemic. The challenges of making sure that were doing appropriate community surveillance. We are tracking the spread in real time and if we see numbers go up in a way that causes stress in the system the ability to move back in a more restrictive direction. These are specific responsibilities to these counties. Specific responsibilities of the state if we want to make progress we have to monitor in realtime. The testing is getting better. Over 843,000 tests now. 30 plus thousand more tests just in the last 24 hours. We put out a new testing site. Covid19 on the covid 19. Ca. Gov website. Log in your zip code and you will see how close you are to a testing facility. We have these 86 new testing states being distributed throughout the state of california. There were some logistic. With identity locations for all of them. Most are up and running. Still a lot of work to do. Still some testing deserts in the state. We put that aside up because we are seeing Real Progress in the testing. Yesterday announced a partnership with ucsf, we started the first cohort and he started filling out registrations yesterday to get the Virtual Training for our tracing court. This army of disease detectives where we will try to get 10,000 in our first phase in the Building Infrastructure with 3000 people are already doing the work. Testing and tracing are foundational in terms of this effort to move into the second phase. As i said yesterday, the critical nature of ppe. Getting masks. Not just for those on the front lines in our healthcare center, pardoning them to grocery lines and transit lines. And to the factory lines and those who do manufacturing and deliveries and logistics. Progress in that place as well. We will monitor this in real time. We will do everything we can to partner with counties and some may see these variations in the requirements to get into the second phase more deeply as impediments. We see it as common sense Public Health requisites. We recognize flexibility is important. We recognize that we have certain ideas and answers and solutions. We dont have all of the ideas and answers and solutions. We are humbled by that as well. And we look forward to working with our local partners. We want to help them move forward into this deeper phase two. I will conclude on that point by reminding you that the foundational predicate is Self Certification but Self Certification with conditions. These counties that want to move into deeper part of the second phase have to do so in concurrence with the Hospital System, and concerns with the board of supervisors in the county. And with all of these tough questions answered on testing, testing and protecting vulnerable communities before they move into that phase. We will provide technical instruments. And there arguments with unique perspectives and we will try to provide some flexibility. If they cant read it on the dated facts and trendlines, hospitali