The Senate Judiciary committee has begun four days appearing spirit the goal for code republican senators is to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to that Supreme Court before election day. Allie rasmus reports live on what has happened so far today. Reporter the timeline according to gop senators, is for the Senate Judiciary committee to vote on Amy Coney Barretts confirmation next week. The in the full senate is scheduled for both the week after that on october 27th. The process got started this morning. Amy Coney Barrett began her Opening Statements before the Senate Judiciary committee by thinking President Donald Trump her nominating her. She spoke about her family, upbringing and career before explaining her judicial philosophy. Courts have about responsibility to the rule of law , which is critical to a free society. Courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life. The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches. Elected by and accountable to the people. Reporter her record as a federal judge shows are supporting the ability of states to enact more restrictions on abortions. Her views are said to be in line with the late justice antonin scalia. Democratic senators kind that will ask her about that during the hearings. And other topic will center around the Affordable Care act. Three years ago bear an essay critical of the Affordable Care act in the decision to uphold. Democratic senator see that as a threat to the future of the aca. Is a potential to widely swing the ballots of the court. Democratic senators also criticized republicans for restarting the confirmation process as soon after the passing of the late ruth bader ginsburg. A clear majority of americans want whoever wins the selection to fill the seat. And my republican colleagues know that. There is nothing unconstitutional about the process. This is a vacancy that has occurred through a tragic loss of a great moment. They are going to fill the vacancy with another great moment. Bottom line is if the senate is doing its duty, constitutionally. In her Opening Statements, barrett did offer praise for the late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. She said she may be nominated to fill her seat but quote, she can never replace her. The plan for tomorrow and wednesday is for each of the 22 senators on the Senate Judiciary committee to have 30 minutes apiece to ask Amy Coney Barrett questions about her judicial philosophy and how she would act on the Supreme Court. Reporting live, allie rasmus. We are learning more this afternoon about a deadly accident in san jose. It killed a fruit vendor. This happened around 6 00 last night. Right near the stripmall. A woman was trying to park a ford f1 50 which he accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake. The truck crashed into a mans freezer and fruit stand where he was standing right behind it. The victim was transported to the hospital but died early this morning. Police say the driver stayed at the same. And is cooperating with the investigation. Eight people were injured after an suv slammed into them earlier in the day. Police say the 69yearold driver was trying to park when he also accidentally hit the gas. This happened yesterday afternoon in an area near the dynasty chinese seafood restaurant. Video posted on facebook shows the moments right after the vehicle crashed into an Outdoor Dining area. Canopies collapsed and tables and chairs were not over as customers rushed to help the people bend underneath the vehicle. One witness says the vehicle was born about 10 Miles Per Hour and then suddenly sped up. The car cannot. It went across the divider and came across the main entrance. Across this sidewall. This divider that crashed into all the people sitting there. Witnesses say the man appeared confused afterward. He was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Three women and five men were taken to the hospital. Police have not arrested the driver and they are gathering information. It is unclear who will face any charges. Live now to governor gavin newsom speaking on californias response to the pandemic and wildfires. We will listen into the governor. The same technologies providing the disease investigation support with epidemiologists that might be in one county. Supporting another county under hundreds of miles away because they can do that remotely. Also adding a virtual agent function. To our cal connect. That is the program that the governor really pushed us to create statewide to organize all of the case information and the Contact Tracing were. Out there is a function that allows us to do an initial survey of individuals who tested positive or who may have been exposed so that Health Departments can begin to prioritize those with the most concerning exposures. All of that together with the staff are really building up this infrastructure across the state. So we can continue to box in the virus as much as we can and make sure that a single case does not turn into 20 or 30 cases from that single one we did this twice. We did a survey many months ago of the local help jurisdictions to find out how successful their existing infrastructure was to Contact Trace all the cases that were discovered as well as the contacts. Back then we were certainly lower than we are now. Today, we are finding that 95 of the local Health Departments are able to contact all of the new cases that they received results for on that same day. The addition of quick testing with quick turnaround time. That 24 to 48 hour and information in the hands of local help jurisdictions and the staffing sufficient to reach all of the positives. It gives us a better chance of making sure somebody who is positive doesnt transmit to others. Similarly, we have 97 of local Health Departments who were able to contact all of the contacts that we learn about on that same day. The tooth and things together allow us to have a better chance of keeping covid19 in check. Part of this really does start with the support of the state with local partners. I want to remind you that Contact Tracing and disease investigation is a triedand true public tool. The local help jurisdictions across the state have been doing this for a long time. They have beefed up and increase the staff and their tools along with the states support to do this. We are now turning a significant part of our focus at helping our local partners with schoolbased modules and making sure we are able to track cases in schools. Either among staff or among students. And providing tools to increase our ability to address outbreaks and investigate them quickly. I want to remind you that we did pursue a Publicprivate Partnership with kaiser. Many other Philanthropic Partners to work with our local entities to deploy local teams. People in communitybased organizations that really do note the communities well. That live and work within the communities. To provide a closer touch to those who might need that Contact Tracing and isolation support. We also put out and described when we described equity metric. The need for counties to use state funds that were provided to the counties to do testing, Contact Tracing and isolation. To make sure the dollars are invested in the communities where we have seen a disproportionate impact. Those dollars are they are in part to support the last piece of the three legged school. That part that focuses on isolation and supporting individuals who learned that they are positive or may have been exposed to either quarantine or isolate. Whichever is appropriate and to make sure they do it in a supported way. We know so many people. Not being able to return to work. Not being able to support their families. There are many tools that the state along with local partners and along with the Philanthropic Partners have put into place in order to support the isolations did not just happen but to happen in the most complete weight so we reduce transmission. With that i want to turn it back over to the governor. Thank you. The key is the issue of isolating individuals that have come into contact or have the transmission of the disease. Meaning we want to make sure the testing leads to something. And in order to box this virus and mitigate the spread of the virus quarantine and isolation become essential. I want to remind people some of the work that has been in the state of california. Resources we made available to help support isolation. One dr. Galli alluded to is the job protected paid sick leave we have provided to californias workers which is foundational in the endeavor of isolating and quarantining individuals. We have targeted very specifically our farm workers and agricultural workers. All up and down the state of california. Is called housing for harvest. We have highlighted it on multiple locations. And a program that is now operational and we hope to do more and better still to expand the scale and scope of the effort. The project room key which we have highlighted on a consistent basis is foundational in terms of isolating individuals that are high risk and a particularly those on the streets and sidewalks and in facilities and shelters throughout the state of california. And of course the federal government. No substitute for the support we get from the federal government. 150 million of federal support providing not just to the state, but also supporting the county efforts in addition to the county efforts in federal dollars. Is that leverage a philanthropic support. That we referenced a moment ago that pfizer has offered philanthropic support. 80 million have been generated and recognizably deserving with. They need to be highlighted. In the effort to get support or isolations and quarantine efforts. A brief update on the Contact Tracing and some of the isolation quarantine and the testing continues to make progress. We will very shortly in the next couple of weeks the announcing an update on our partnership and the efforts to more than double the capacity of testing in the state of california. Real progress is being made in that space and we look forward to making the announcement very very shortly. We are not going to slip backwards on testing. We are going to forge forward. And be much more aggressive. We are not ashamed of testing people. We are not ashamed of identifying individuals that have been tested positive. But we must make that meaningful. Testing for testings sake is not in and of itself significant save the patient back and learn about their own health and health risk from a Community Spirit and transmission perspective. We need to make sure we go further than that. That is a Contact Tracing. That is the education and know your Rights Campaign among many other efforts we have advanced to the essays that will allow people to support so they can isolate. They can quarantine. Not only taking care of themselves and their own recovery. But mitigating the spread to people they love and all of those efforts are being accelerated. All of the efforts are being reinforced and again, news very shortly on the very exciting and significant increase in lower cost. Much more timely testing that we have advanced in this extort partnership in the state of california. Lets talk about the case rates in the states. The new number we announce today. 3440 cases. This is from october 11th. Track slightly higher than the seven day average of 3321 cases. You can see the Positivity Rate based on the 127,000 average daily tests over the last seven days. It has dropped to 2. 6 . That is a 14 day Positivity Rate. The 7 day Positivity Rate is consistent with the 14 day Positivity Rate. 2. 6 here. In our state. Hospitalizations have decreased 8 over a twoweek period. And we are seeing a decrease in icu admissions more substantial. 13 over 14 days. You may recall we are seeing a bit of a plateauing or at least a slowdown in the rate of decreased. You have seen 20 percent rates of decrease in hospitalizations and icus over the course of many many weeks. Slowing down modestly. Again, these are areas of caution. A sober reminder of how stubborn this disease is and how prevalent the spread of the disease remains in california. Always a reminder of the imperative and importance we place upon practicing physical distancing and the critical work you can do by wearing these face masks. Accordingly, we have made progress on our tiered status. Now 42 counties of the 58 have moved out of the lower tier. The most restrictive tier. 24 counties you see in the red. 11 in orange. Primarily some in the central part of the state represent seven of the 58 counties. This county update. The tiered status update is made every tuesday. Tomorrow dr. Galli will be updating the numbers. Progress, i will always to lean in. But they were always adjusting the numbers from the weekend and i have to be careful. We will make progress with a number of counties moving into new tiers. Again, stubborn and some counties teetering. That will be made public tomorrow. Some of the latest information again will be put together later this afternoon. Updated every tuesday and dr. Gallis presentation. County tier status moving in the right direction. Broadly for the overwhelming majority. Now 42 counties out of the purple status into the other tiered status. Speaking of status, i want to update you. This is around the peak of what we have experienced in the last few years wildfire season. Into october the diablo winds and santa ana winds start to present themselves still. Hot temperatures and we can expect of the tinny degree increases in temperatures of what we experienced over the end of last week and into the weekend into this week. We are going to see an increase of winds later this week. Wednesday, thursday and friday in Northern California in particular. We are expecting high wind events in about one hour gusts based upon the analysis and briefings and as high as 60 mileperhour wind gusts in Northern California. Pg e territory working on their protocols around ps ps partnerships with the cities and counties and with cal. Cal fire being advanced in the areas and notification protocols that have improved from last year now in place and again strengthening partnerships that included 50 Million Dollars of support money that we distributed to the counties and to ngos. Nongovernmental organization. Nonprofits and state agencies to help support the notification and support vulnerable communities. It links to those that may be impacted by ps protocols. I want to update you about the impact of these larger wildfires and remind you in the aggregates of 4. 1 million acres now burning in the state of california. Currently dealing with 14 major wildfire wildfires and or wildfire complexes. Some 12,000 firefighters and you saw the numbers north of 18,000 a few weeks back. 12,000 firefighters working to battle the is stored fires in the state. Tragically, we have lost loved one lives in the number has remained relatively stable. Caution always the fatalities and structured data likely to increase as we repopulate areas in some parts of trinity county. They have been evacuated for close to 30 days and some cases north of 30 days as we go back in. And we do justice to this. Do justice to the repopulation and reconnection to friends and families and communities. We are likely to see higher structures damaged. And obviously concerned about lives lost. Glass fire. We talked a lot about around nampa and lake sonoma counties. Last week 30 contained. Stubborn fire in the wine country pick 65,000 acres impacted. Today it is 95 contained. Real progress and notably over the last week in. It couldnt come too soon. Particularly with the higher winds in and around the area. Coming into that part of the state. Again, wednesday, thursday and friday. Additionally, Real Progress and not just Real Progress. Substantial progress on the dissolved fire. Mount 99 contained. I am told within a few hours later this afternoon, they will officially put out 100 containment figure. On the zogg fire. To large complexes and i want to give you a Progress Report on the more active fires. The largest in californias history, the august fire over 1 million acres and 54 percent contained last week. Now is 75 percent containment. Is the northern part of the august complex. The u. S. Forest service battling heart. Is the most stubborn and while there is concern around wind conditions that could impact the northern part as it relates to containment. We have been anticipating that in the Weather Service and working collaboratively collaborative the state for positioning aspects and building the conditions to hold the line on the northern part so we can hold this one plus million acre fire and not only in containment of the line so well see substantial increase in the total amount of acreage burned. The creek fire generated a lot of attention for good reason. This is in and around the area that was just fortunately impacted by the historic drought here in the state of california. You recall a drought between 2011 and 2017 and 163 million and by the way. That is just an estimate. 163 Million Trees that fail because of the drought and historic and unprecedented conditions that led to conditions that make it even more challenging in an