Million individual pieces of person protective equipment arrived at a San Francisco warehouse and the city is beginning the process of passing them out to Small Businesses, helping them to reopen their could bees sooner rather than later. The mayor saying covid19 will be an ongoing obstacle businesses will have to battle, even as many reopen their doors for the first time in months. We received over a million pieces of ppe, and we have today masks, we have shields, we have hand sanitizer, and were passing them out directly to Small Businesses, at least a 30day supply to support our Small Business community in San Francisco. The first round of handouts was directed at the citys latino population and latino businesses. Latino Task Force Members saying their community has had more coronavirus cases per capita than other community and has more essential workers. The step we see today with this ppe and this distribution through this partnership allowing us to help protect those same essenti
Overwhelmed by the news and felt it was a step in the right direction. The family says taylor was 33 and a father who also suffered from Mental Health issues. The d. A. s office says taylor went into a walmart on april 1th, grabbing a bat and a tent before trying to walk out of the store without paying. They say a Security Guard called police and taylor said he would wait for officers to arrive. What happened next was captured on body camera video. Officer Jason Fletcher arrived at the store and encountered taylor. After trying to grab the bat, investigators say the officer used his taser, and that it led taylor to stumble forward. The d. A. s office said taylor proved no threat in that position and that the officer did not attempt to use other deescalation measures, instead shooting at taylor. The entire incident unfolded in less than 40 seconds. Taylors grandmother explained she thinks theres much more ahead. You are surprised, but were praying that this is that its going to go where
Different set of rules. Hair salons can operate outside only, but almost all salons dont have the space for that, so Alameda County customers can simply head to coops for a haircut. And were losing clients because of it. A hundred percent. And i dont blame them. City leaders in dublin and livermore just across the border from connecticut and asked Alameda County for a special exemption, but were denied. But bijust crossing a county line all of a sudden that makes a difference to the virus, and i just dont understand that. To me, i wonder if our message is getting through to the health officers, because i just cant understand it. If youre asking for consistency, of course it does not make sense. Reporter u. C. Berkeley Infectious Disease specialest dr. Schwarzberg said Different Health officers often make different decisions. In one county, theyre making the challenge companylous its too risky to be inside. In the other, theyre say we go dont think its too risky to be inside. The indivi
Gov. Parson good afternoon, again. Thanks everyone for being here again today. A couple of updates. According to todays situation awareness update from the missouri hospital association, missouri has 796 hospitalized covid19 patients. And 115 hospitalized and on ventilators. Missouri hospitals currently have 1,947 ventilators available. With 11 with 115 in use. This is good news. This is good news. Our hospitals are not overwhelmed. Missouris Positivity Rate continues to decline. People are recovering and we are moving forward. Earlier today, i joined hundreds of citizens and Business Leaders from the good morning springfield town hall hosted by the Springfield Area Chamber of commerce to talk about an update on the covid19 efforts that the state are doing and also the economy of reopening the economy, how we could all move together, things we could do to move our state forward. I also traveled to Southeast Missouri today. As a matter of fact, i was in Southeast Missouri, Southeast Mis
Responsee coronavirus and we take your calls or you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal can join us on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is monday, march 9, 2020. There are more than 500 confirmed coronavirus cases in the u. S. , and those numbers expected to go up this week. As federal, state, and local governments step up their response to the outbreak, we are spending the first part of the washington journal today asking how the coronavirus has impacted your community . If you live in eastern or central time zones, the number 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001 is the number. You can send us a text. That number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Catch up with us on twitter, facebook. Good morning to you. You can start calling in now. We want to take you first to the covid19 dashboard being maintained by the Johns Hopkins university.