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Goodpresident pence morning. The White House Coronavirus task force met at the department of education on our ongoing effort to save lives, meet the needs of our state and our healthcare workers, to protect the vulnerable and to safely reopen america and reopen americas schools. As you will hear today from admiral giroir, we have tested 39 million americans. Among those, or than 3 million have tested positive and more than 1. 3 million americans have recovered. 133,000re than americans have lost their lives and our sympathy is with all of the impacted families. Because of what the American People have done, the extraordinary work of our healthcare workers around the country, we are encouraged that the average fatality rate continues to be low and steady. Days earlier this week, it was 90 lower than at the height of the pandemic. Again, it is a credit to the sacrific ....
Buddy. It wasnt bad at all. Well in the 40s. Pretty strong south wind and rain moving in tonight and temperatures dropping again. Lets go to the headlines. Notice the cloud cover now. No more sun for you. We have an alert for light rain and wind gusts over 30. Is it will be windy tomorrow with Early Morning light rain diminishing to drizzle and get cold enough for wednesday with snow showers and flurries. Theres your alert tonight. It wont be a big rain producer and it will be a light rain and enough to make the roads damp. Watch out for the wind gusting over 30 and seeing it develop here. This trend will continue this evening fort wayne, indiana. Here you see current temperatures low to mid40s and it wont support snow or cloud cover over downtown cleveland. Coming up at about 5 16. Denise, all right jeff thank you. The massive winter storm is headed to scene. This is drone footage of the jersey shore. At least 27 deaths are blamed ....
And my office. Fema ships those every week. That is now along with the assistant secretary for preparedness and response at hhs. That is the overall general view. We announced yesterday what we talked about a little bit last week, and that is federal surge sites. We opened these in three communities. There was a list of communities identified by dr. Birx and her team that has certain characteristics of their infection trend, but also met certain characteristics, numerical numbers and isolation. It might have an impact over a short period of time. Our goal in those communities is to do at least 5,000 tests per day. Those are in baton rouge, jacksonville, and mcallen. Mcallen in texas. We have many other sites that we are working with. Again, this is a partnership with the state and local governments to make that happen. There up and running, testing and all three sites. Baton rouge started yesterday. We have almost 6,500 appointments already made this morning, so thats going very well. ....
Plans. Fema ships those every week. Now thats along with esper, assistant secretary for response at hhs. We announced yesterday, what we talked about a little bit last week and that is federal surge sites. We opened these in three communities. There was a list of communities identified by dr. Birx and her team that had certain characteristics of their infection trend but also met certain characteristics of numerical numbers in isolation that surge testing might have an impact over a short period of time. So our goal in those communities is to do at least 5,000 tests per day and those are in baton rouge, jacksonville, and mccowan in texas. Again, this is a partnership with the state and local governments to make that happen. Theyre up and running with testing in all three sites. Baton rouge started yesterday, the other two sites start today. And we also have almost 6,500 appointments already made this morning so thats going very, very well. The last thing i want to talk about is phoenix ....
Ships those every week. Now thats along with assistant secretary for preparedness and response at hhs. Thats sort of the overall general view. We announced yesterday what we talked about a little bit last week, and that is federal surge sites. We opened these in three communities. There was a list of communities identified by dr. Birx and her team that had certain characteristics of their infection trend, but also met certain characteristics of numerical numbers in isolation that surge testing might have an impact over a short period of time. Our goal in those communities is to do at least 5,000 tests per day, and those are in baton rouge, jacksonville and mccallon. Mccallon in texas, and we have many other sites that were working with. Again, this is a partnership with the state and local governments to make that happen. Theyre up and running and testing in all three sites. Baton rouge started yesterday. The other two sites start today and we already have almost 6,500 appointments alr ....