safety, this is abc 7 news. ♪ >> you are putting lives at stake. you are putting public health in jeopardy. >> a talking to people not taking stay at home orders seriously. good afternoon, thank you for joining us. >> we have the latest developments for the coronavirus virus. as the worse is still to alameda county confirmed the first death, the number cases in california hit 30, there was also a death reported in sacramento county. california should top 2,000 cases today. through the weekend there were more than 1700 confirmed cases. >> so here are the latest bay area totals. al ameda with 122 confirmed cond cases. san francisco now with 131 cases. an increase of 23 overnight.

overall there's 860 in the bay area and 14 deaths. >> we want to update cases in lake and mendocino with one positive case and none in lake county. both counties have dozens of tests waiting results of the tests. the bay area first mobile covid-19 test site opened this morning in hayward. at first cars stretched for blocks, about a hundred when the process first began. and laura anthony is there live. most people were turned away there today, right? >> kelenna: well, . >> well, that's right, dan, this is unlike anything we've seen before,sa i nonstop operation. it will are just two cars there. things have slowed considerably in the last hour or so. health care workers in health gear and masks geting peopl tak right turn and go home. >> this is not a scene from a

movie. it's something real and unsettling. people lining up in cars and on the sidewalks, some wearing masks, in one hayward neighborhood, hoping to get tested for covid-19. >> he's 14, he's had a fever since friday night about 104, it's been 101 today. and then the coughing and then we've also had nausea and diea rhea. >> that young man was eligible for a test. not everyone that showed up would get tested. far from it. there's a series of questions they're asked to screen out those who feel ill but not likely from a coronavirus. the biggest threshold if someone has a fever of at least deepgs. -- degrees. >> for the walk up, one person gets a test, ten get turned away. as far as the drive up screeninn

one person gets tested, five are turned away. >> beyond the fear of being sick or infected with covid-19 those who line up with the testing are also dealing with the reality of being in this place in this moment in time. >> did you ever think there would be a line like this? >> no. honestly driving in, it's kind of surreal. we see the signs. everything. it seems like we're in a movie or something. >> and we're back live here, no we're showing you the tents, there's several tents set up here. this is where people are suspected of having covid-19 they have to have a fever of more than 100 and they go to those tents to be tested. i was told as of mid day today about 400 people have400 les tha 100 have been directed to these tents to take those tests. i'm told they'll receive their results between 6 and 24 hours

from now. fairly quickly. the center will be open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., seven days a week we're told for the next three weeks, from hayward, abc 7 news. >> thank you laura. for the past week we're following a worker and wife who became ill and while waiting for the test results it took days, they've been notified she is in fact infected. here with the family's story. >> i'm really struggling. i don't want to spend the weekend in my bedroom. i want to get out. >> the weekend was a roller coaster of emotions. on friday my wife got a text message from the doctor suggesting the test results will i have been in my room since last friday, if i'm negative i've been in my room in vain. >> the message confirmed i couldn't pick up my daughter frz

he got to san diego sunday morning and daughters load up the things and they drove back. when on the road we got the results of the test results. >> you have now tested positive. >> what do you want me to say? >> is it good or bad news, we've been debating this all weekend, we've been home so long we might as well be positive and move on and be out of here in another week. >> yeah it's good because we already have the illness or the virus, we're not bad, you're a-symptomatic, my symptoms weree pretty much mild. >> after the reality sank in, my wife called her mom. >> they suggest that mom not come here for a total of three weeks, so two more weeks. >> oh, no, no. >> i called daughters, who were barely past los angeles.

>> so got a call from a doctor this morning, test results, she has covid-19. >> no. >> does that mean you have it too? >> they can't tell and they're not going to test me. we spent the rest of the day notifying friends, family and co-workers. >> the doctors called me back half hour ago and i tested positive which means you and the boys who were exposed to me should self-isolate for two week. >> at least now we know my wife's symptoms were mild and her quarantine will end this friday. >> at least there's an end in the sight. i'm sure waiting for the results were awful. >> knowing is bad as not knowing almost. they've been so couragiousse pee identify with it. >> absolutely. san francisco mayor is running out of patience with residents and visitors not

abiding by the state and local stay at home orders. >> if thinks continue in the way we saw them happen over the weekend we will have no choice but to close our park system, to work on other mitigating suggestions that we need to do in order to ensure people are not allowed to use these spaces. >> so here's what she was referring to. huge numbers of people out this weekend, including some having picnics. >> santa cruz county is urging people to avoid going to the beach to hang out during the shelter in place order. this is a live picture of our camera at the board walk, you see just a couple people out there. sheriff is asking people to adjust their routines to protect everyone's helmth including -- health including their own, could lead to a fine or arrest but seems most have voluntarily

complying. there is some cause for concern in marin county with our next story. wayne? >> good afternoon, dan, we're at the popular place any day of the week, they park their cars here and walk up to with their dogs, and just enjoying the scenery, there's many more than usual, in the future, the county is cracking down, bottom line, if you can't walk here or ride your bike, stay away. >> in marchin been a population explosion on the trails. not what the doctors ordered. >> it's nice to get out to get fresh air but yesterday i a su he >> >> no. >> what was it? >> i think a lot of people were acting like it was just a normal

day. >> but these are not normal days and nothing brought the concept home faster than this video announcement from marin county health official. >> today i was diagnosed with covid-19 so i'm here on home quarantine as marin's 39th case. >> the health department has tighter restrictions of parks and open-space areas, trying to avoid repeating scenes like this where fresh air is no place for social distancing. >> i am an old gray hair and want to be safe. i don't feel i can even walk my dog right now. >> and the same in the scene of a well-meaning invasion yesterday. the throngs of people alarmed and worried the residents. >> we want everyone to be aware that this is not a spring break, it's not vacation, there's a pandemic, we're all supposed to stay at home. >> here a steady stream of people all dayng hopefully not a virus, that

would be the worst of outcomes in withone of the most beautifuf places. >> i'm worried we're going to overwhelm the health care system. >> we don't want to take any chances. life is precious. >> as we come back here to the open space in marin county, worth noting, dr. matt said he's feeling better than he was, good news to everyone who knows him, he's a hard-working guy. abc 7 news. >> wayne, thank you. in san francisco nurses rus cases ceori.r conditions as o kaiser perimeter south medical center made dep.a. mands for masks and gloves and goggles and also demanded safe staffing ratios when caring for covid-19p meet staff on the front line they're accepting the following items

unused n95 respirators and surgical masks and disposal gloves, hand sanitizer, and disinfectants and wipes, and packaged unused protective goggles. drop off is 8:00 to 5:00 daily ucf buildings. in contra costa county private citizens can donate gloves goggles and masks will go to those who provide every day care 11,000 people with developmental disabilities across the bay area. >> so that any individuals we serve end up with the virus that maybe they can stay home and be cared for in their home setting and not have to impact hospital settings and where they don't really need to be as long as they're not terribly ill.

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closing at 18,591. it has lost nearly 35% of its value since the outbreak. s&p down 2.9% today. not as bad on the nasdaq it dropped just 18 points. senate democrats blocked the $2 trillion coronavirus economic stimulus bill from advancing. it was the second time in two days democrats blocked a gigantic piece of legislation. tempers flared on both sides, democrats said it helped corporations and not enough for health care workers and people who have been laid off. arguing they're holding up badly needed aid to help special

interests. the students instead of seeing their peers every day are now at home with classes taught online. now a look inside with david the virtual classroom. >> indeed, dan. we like to think of leathering nev -- learning never stops. technology is making it possible for students and teachers to stay on course, even abnormal times like these, able to set up distance learning in days thanks to every student having a laptop. >> this 13-year-old doesn't have to leave home, during start of week two of distance learning on his cleem bochrome book. covering the same classroom terrelle with less with less social interaction. >> i feel i can still learn. still have a connection with my friends, of course, since we're on lock down i won't be able to

see them as much. but i feel in some classes i can still see them. >> ryan and his older from riley started at the kitchen table so their mother could monitor their progress but they each now connect from their rooms. ryan is keeping things normal as possible despite having to stay at home. >> one of my subjects art so of course there's some limitation when it comes to studying and practicing but we're still able to upload videos and able to call the teacher if we have any questions. >> 7th grade math teacher tina wan has to think visually as she prepared her lessons for her students and she also has to make an effort to engage her students, she can only click through the screens of five or six students at a time. >> i try to make sure each child is called on, but i do miss

having that interaction where students are adri araus able students are able to hear one another while working. >> ryan spends two or three hours a day on the computer and equal time learning by himself. independent learning, distance learning seems to be working even with class mates separated from each other. >> they're still able to collaborate with their teams on their projects, and with their teachers. so a lot of collaboration is still going on. we feel it's really not too different from being in school. >> there is another advantage to distance learning, by not having to drive riley to school the family now spending more time at home, longer dinner, more time to talk about school and what's going well.g meid ab >>ha yth tdiscuss.

>> yeah what's in the refrigerator, drew? >> yeah, guys, alma already texted me asking for a blt. so i got it make that for her. dan tell me what you want. >> grilled cheese. >> yeah. there you go guys. yeah i'm working from home like many of you watching this, we have the technology to do the forecast from home so let's talk about a rainy tuesday we're going to have tomorrow. let's show you live doppler 7 across much of the bay area sweep out there, we do have a fair amount of cloud cover. let's take you outside, live camera, overcast skies across the region. soon we'll find that cloud cover will give way to rain especially on your tuesday morning. temperature-wise. when y h whi day the low to mid 50's. 56 in san jose.

50 in vallejo. bigger picture. live doppler 7 with the satellite showing the area of low pressure exiting southern california as we speak. the wider view will show another storm system moving to the pacific northwest to bring rain tomorrow. level one light system tomorrow. light to moderate showers. rainfall most of us a tenth to half inch when said and done and snow levels are low, not out of the question to get dusting in the north bay. overnight drops to the 40's with a lot of cloud cover overhead and the rain arrives after midnight. 4:30 tomorrow morning, best chance of finding the rain will. by 9:00 or 10:00 everyone's fair game for the showers, light to moderate, they continue through the lunch time hour, 12:30

tomorrow afternoon, as you see it is a wet mid day around here. heading through the evening, cold front passes through, 6:00 you have scattered showers and end the day on a dry note with fair cloud cover overhead. total rainfall, tenth to half an inch. if you find yourself under a down pour you could see close to half an inch of rain, nonetheless, it's a light storm. highs tomorrow low to mid 50's. 54 in the city. 57 in oakland and san jose. 56 in santa rosa. 55 the high in concord. the accuweather forecast rainy and chilly tuesday. wednesday still unsettled with a chance of thunderstorm popping up. then dry thursday into friday and sunshine into the weekend, warm up to 70 degrees by the afternoon.

today one of those days, shelter at home is not too hard. >> yeah. >> thank you so much, drew. helping the hopeless during this coronavirus crisis. the plan to give them shelter, at least for the time being. >> socializing in the

a head's up for anyone riding public transportation, bart is reducing hours as ridership drops rapidly. starting today will run 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 at night, and riders must be in thefore e of i starting to ed service on ac transit will be free to keep bus drivers and riders safe.ba dos. ac transit wants passengers to practice social distancing by

riding. >> and bta will board paeng passengers through the back door. meanwhile rapid 500 service has been suspended. five membered of the san francisco board of supervisor are moving to shelter members of the city's homeless population at local hotels, saying it is imperative to getting those living on the streets and shelters into individual rooms to stop the spread of the virus. >> anyone in public health looking at this will tell you the same thing, get as many people as possible into their own living space. that is how we prevent the spread of this virus and that is how we prevent our health care sim from being overwhelmed. >> supervisor hillary has secured 8500 hotel rooms for the homeless and first responders in kwoournt who

tested by the virus. as part of multi million effort, banning together to help low low income families impacted by covid-19. >> at sacred heart services in san jose the demand for services grows as those in the community lost hours and wages by the command of covid-19 turn to the agency for assistance. cruz vazquez typically works multiple jobs but was laid off sand now worried about whether he will be able to weather the storm. >> when it rav rains it pours. a lot of people are worried about food. everything cut to everybody. >> help could be on the way, today the homeless prevention

system launched $11 million relief fund to assist residentss for their needs. >> all of the funds will be dispersed into our homeless networks, we're the experts are on the ground to solve the family crisis. >> to qualify must have household income less than 80% of the area median income $103,000 for a family of four. and must show documents losses e due to covid-19 and can request up to $4,000 a month once a month as long as funds remain available. multiple fund. outside of the relief fund cisco is announced $225 million in cash and in-kind donations for covid-19 locally

and globally. facebook donated more than $120 million towards the efforts. >> there will be time each of us can give. be part of that exchange. >> nonprofits and businesses stepping up in silicon valley in this time of need. >> it is important to take a step back maybe and relax a bit during this very tough and stressful time and the monterey bay aquarium is trying to help, offering a number of live cameras including on its african penguin exhibit which are a little bit smaller than the more familiar emperor penguins. the aquarium is closed of course. last week we showed live feeds of the sea otters and jelly fish. boy, it's nice to pause for a moment and appreciate nature and moment and appreciate nature and the we are t-mobile the first to go unlimited.

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now your health, your safety, this is abc 7 news. >> good afternoon, quick run down of the headlines, today the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating as expected in the united states, deaths surge past 500 today, last week this time there were just over 80. you see the trend. nationwide about 40,000 people have been infected with coronavirus. in washington there's a fight over a stimulus package. the senates $2 trillion proposal was stalled and house is countering with $2.5 trillion package, democrats demanding more be done for workers. and a dire prediction. >> this week it's going to get bad and we really need to come together as a nation. i heard the story you were playing of the young people out on beaches, we see here in d.c. that the district set up a cam

for people to watch cherry blossoms and you see more people walking around than you see cherry blossoms. >> this is the situation he's referring to, hundreds crowded the national mall hoping to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon the cherry blossoms, d.c. brought in the national guard to enforce social distancing rules, the number of cases is rising rapidly in d.c., maryland and virginia. >> this afternoon we received an update from the mayor of san francisco, both hitting on the spread of coronavirus and urged people to stay in place. the mayor was upset. >> today the state provided one million masks for the front line workers, the first responders, paramedics, firefighters, police officers, facebook has provided with 100,000 masks and 400,000 gloves. thanks to the leadership of the

supervisors stephanie working with the private sector, fletcher port has provided 60,000 masks, 34,000 gloves 2,000 gowns and 50 things continue like over the weekend we'll have no choice but to close the park system and work on other mitigating suggestions we need to do to ellen sure people are not a ensure people are not allowed to use these spaces. i want to plead to the people of our city to comply. >> let's go to the governor now who is holding a daily conference in sacramento. >> pretty remarkable 72 hours, this weekend, with the major disaster declaration approved by the trump administration, finally today seeing the uss mercy begin its journey up north

from southern california into the l.a. port. we will be looking forward to making sure that ship is stocked and ready and protocols and procedures are put in place as we speak to make sure we prioritize the right group of individuals to come on that ship. right now it's working out its ba ballas. it's going to take a number of days, don't want to over promise when it will appear in the l.a. port but it's being outfitted and wonderful to see the ship lave to port today. i want to thank up top, the president of the united states, that was a directive from the president to send it to los angeles and want to thank the leadership of los angeles, mayor garcetti and others for for their outstanding leadership making sure the protocol and procedures are well in place before the ship arrives. we're also very pleased to see $100 million in emergency grants finally go out to the city and counties to start securing those

hotels for the homeless, top priority, focussing on the most vulnerable californians, $100 million in emergency dollars in grants now dis tributed. talking to the leaders, remarkable things are happening in securing hotel rooms and want to congratulate the leadership in san diego county identifying 1900 hotel rooms and new yorking hand in glove with the city to begin the process of getting people off the streets into facilities and shelter, to the extent necessary, isolation for covid-19 positive id homeless m individual so a lot of progress on the ground here at the center over the last few days. let me tell you specifically what i mean by that. we're working through our constant and never-ending

iterationed, i'm looking what is happening realtime across the state of california, what is occurring as it relates to our modeling, not only utilizing data that comes from the united states, comes from the field within the state of california but modeling that comes from around the rest of the world. we're looking at bending the curve. we're looking at interventions that work. we're looking at best practices from around the globe. utilize data systems. utilize artificial intelligence and laying out strategy on best case, most likely case where covid-19 will spread and what our resource allocation needs to be. again at a county, bottom-up level throughout the state of california. we have updated our models and as a consequence of updating our models we are looking to significantly increase our procurement of assets, specifically beds throughout our health care delivery system. let me give you some specific

numbers to bear fruit to that effort. we currently have 416 hospitals in the state of california. we have just shy of 75,000 licensed beds. we need an additional beds in our system, our new modeling suggests 50,000 is the new target number. here's what is already under way, announcements i made over the last few days and leaning into announcements we'll be making over the course of the next few days. the hospital system alone will provide for 30,000 of those beds. it's important for folks to recognize and it's obvious when you hear it that we're much better off using the existing resource and resourcefulness in the hospital system by allowing the hospitals more fletcher and capacity using existing staff and using some out

buildings on the hospital campuses and look ago the the park lots and getting tents a providin emergency supplies in and around those facilities. the hospitals came with a surge plan 15% to 20% of their capacity rand doubling that surge plan now. phase one that we're announcing today is a surge plan of 40% within that hospital system. s that's what the current hospital system is working to address internally and we feel confident in their capacity to deliver that. externally, outside of the hospital system itself we're looking to provide 20,000 beds throughout our system. as you know the last few days we announced the acquisition of three major hospitals in the state of california, seaton hospital here in northern california. long beach, outstanding leadership, their mayor, community hospital they a

moving patients much earlier than they otherwise would in that facility and of course saint vincent in los angeles. we're in deep negotiations and will soon be in contract with a number of other facilities throughout the state, again, northern california and currently negotiating the central part of california. all told, we've got about 3,000 beds now that we have lined up and identified in the short-term. part of the 20,000 state will be responsible for identifying. roughly 17,000, don't mean to throw too many numbers, 17,000, we need to start stacking in terms of resources throughout the state of california that's why we're identifying convention facilities, fair grounds, we're identifying specific assets including motels and hotels, not just for homeless but potentially provide capacity including skilled nursing facilities and the like. we're well on our way in terms of identifying those individual

assets and we're well under way making sure once the assets are identified we can resource them, what i mean, staff them, and staff them with the appropriate levels of support on protective gear, ppe, as we're commonly referring to that. let me break that down a little bit. our staffing is going to require more flex. going to require more capacity as it relates to existing ratios, to existing current scope of practice. we're going to have to do more on rules and regulations, well-within our capacity to deliver and i think for the system to absorb. we are in advanced negotiations on more prescriptive issues around scope of practice as it relates to staffing ratios, we put on the bus executive order that has already begun the process of making changes to those protocos. we believe the ability to get fourth year medical students into the system.

getting someone to almost finish, getting them nursing degree, get them licensed earlier, bringing back retirees back all of that, you start adding those resources and we believe we can meet the moment to provide for the human resources, the staffing of those additional beds. in addition to that we're making a case, and we need to make this case very soberly. it's one thing to provide the physical spaces. it's another to provide the human resources. but you got to keep people healthy. you got to keep people safe. that's why the issue of protective gear is so important to health care. more broadly to the front line workers throughout the state defined in many different categories. we are significantly expanding our efforts. we've been expanding them. but now significantly expanding our efforts to procure additional shields and gloves and gowns and coveralls and the like. so much so that we have formerly

scoped the capacity to go out on the open market, across the country, for that matter around the world to scope out and by the way, i'mal these 1 billion gloves to procure. 500 million masks. 200 mill yuchb shields. you get the picture. in the magnitude of tens of millions in some cases hundreds of millions of units of this personal protective gear. let me tell you why. i three-month surge, let's just assume for argument's sake, a three-month surge capacity in our hospital system alone, just one part of the larger health care delivery system that requires 125,000 beds, 75,000 base line plus 50,000 surge that

would require in three months 200 million sets of ppe. that is again, gloves, gowns, masks and shields. that would just exhaust itself in three months. so it puts things in perspective when you are watching the news or reading something online about a few hundred thousand n95 masks that come in, couple hundred thousand gowns, how quickly one goes through that. for every patient throw that ppe off. for every room you throw that ppe off. you can go to a specific hospital and go through hundreds of thousands in one hospital in just a week. to procure that will take a heroic effort. so we've identified specific asks. we have specific strategies in terms that procurement and logistics and we recognize we as a nation need to recognize the following that is many of us are competing for the same limb heit -- limited supplies and as

a consequence people are tripping over themselves to make deals that are ultimately raising the cost of these supplies. i was very pleased to just watch president trump's press conference and applaud him and deputy attorney general for going after hoarding and price gouging. that must be done not just by the federal government but by the state and local government. to give an example of outstanding leadership district attorney in san diego that's already been on this filing cases, not just being aggrieved but actually moving on this, you are seeing that with other municipalities and attorney general as well. it's wonderful to see the federal government to take this seriously. it's incumbent upon mayors, and county leaders to align our purchasing strategies to recognize states like califonia

uniquely positioned to make large purchases and get the volume discounts that are necessary creates a crowding out in the market that hurts the smaller states and i don't want to be in position as a californians deeply committed to the people i represent but also as a american citizen to take advantage of our purchasing market power without addressing the needs of the smaller state leaders. it is incumbent to begin the process of centralizing produringment and address procurement and address this in a much more systemic way. we will be sending literally charter flights from china into the state of california. we're already working on some of the largest logistics firms in the world, fedex and ups to do just that, we're working on all suppose chains, brokers and dealers from around the world, factories into china, and we're

doing our part domestically. we by the way have six california companies that want to repurpose their facilities to manufacturer gowns. we just had a conversation with 25 provider that's want to start 3d printing masks in the state of california. elon musk, how about this, i told you few days ago that he was likely to have 1,000 ventilators, this week they arrived, they arrived, in los angeles, and elon musk is already working with hospital association others to get those out in realtime. hereoic effort. we talked about the investigators, repurposing le people are stepping up in a meaningful and direct way. the magnitude what we have to accomplish we must do together as a nation and absence of our capacity to centralize it nationally. governors we need to start a lining our selves to purchasing

protocols in a way we can bring down the cost curve and address the anxiety about access. i want other governors to know we're committed to working with you and had a number of conversations to work through, nga and others to formalize those protocols and procedures sox we're moving on all cylinders. we're very pleased and i want to thank the administration president trump called me yesterday and told me that we already should expect and he was right, those field medical stations to come into the state of california, two arrived, one in riverside, one in santa clara, they have arrived land put it in the convention center in santa clara and in the fair grounds in riverside that was part of eight he committed to the state of california. we're grateful for that. that's 2,000 beds. we're already in the process beginning to resource and

ultimately get those things up as we can. i say as we can but also as we should. which is we don't rush to do everything overnight to have assets siting there waiting for the surge this is done in a very methodical and deliberate way. we're referring to phase one in terms of acquisition and planning as we bring these units, these numbers to life, so we can keep people healthy and address the anxiety many of us are fearing, or feeling, let me speak to that. i had a little anxiety as all of you did watching the news of all those folks and crowds in our parks in the beautiful california coast. normally that would light up my heart to see tens and thousands of people congregating in malibu and other parts of the beautiful state. it's understanding the first weekend with the new stay at home order.

some folks testing it. and know that one cannot condemn that but one can criticize it. we need to practice common sense and socially distance. and that means we need to help you help yourself a little bit more, those folks that were making their way out there, to recognize when you're on a single track trail in our beautiful wilderness that single track means going up the mountain and down the mountain which means it's almost impossible to socially distance yourself. when you can't even find parking at a beach suggests you're not going to practice social distancing and may suggest you may want to find a new location. to make it easier for you we're going to shut down all state parking lots, that will go into effect immediately. counties, to their credit are already doing it. i talked to a number of mayors last night that moved for their city and county assets, particularly in the stressed areas of san diego, los angeles,

san mateo, into marin and sonoma county so we are going to substantially advance what we call these soft closures. there will be some hard closures but these are soft closures to reduce the stress on those beaches. i don't want to close big, beautiful open spaces, not when we are encouraging people to go outside with intention and purpose, not linger, but to deal with the health needs that we all have of being outdoors and taking a deep breath, practicing common sense and social distancing. we want to provide a forum for that but can't see what we saw over the weekend happen again. local leaders are leading on this. i congratulate them. state of california will now shut down all parking lots and what does that mean? it means nine of our parking lot facilities in l.a. county. it means for example all the way

down in san diego, torrey pines parking lot now shut down. all the way up to sonoma with the armstrong redwoods site going to be shut down. we're going to be updating our efforts to keep people from over loading and ultimately over burdening the system and that means i encourage people that want to go to parks in the state of california to go to our parks.ca.gov to get more information. it will constantly update and provide that information to people that are seeking an appropriate time outside of their home, but not seeking to do what we did this last weekend. so wanted to make that clear, we are stepping up that enforcement and we are stepping up our efforts to advance closures that will indicate the importance of that enforcement. just on a personal note i had a friend of minute who said i'm out here in malibu, it's just

incredible, it's packed, i don't know who all these people are. i said aren't you one of those people. it reminded me of an old billboard in washington state on a crowded freeway it says you're not stuck in traffic. and you're on a crowded freeway. ten minutes go by and you get closer to the billboard and it doesn't just say you're not stuck in traffic in parenthesis under need that headline it says you are traffic. think about it. society becomes how we behave. you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic. we are our behaviors. and in order to meet this moment we need to improve our behaviors. all of us, young and healthy. not just the most vulnerable citizens of the state. the young and healthy have a unique obligation to the seniors to keep them safe. you keep them safe but practicing safe, social distancing and you can't do that at a pick up basketball game. you can't do that when you are

reck re ating as you have in the past. so please, please, let us all step up our game and recognize our obligation, not just to ourselves, but to each other to meet this moment. that 50,000 bed number that i just gave you, assumes that we're doing that. we have numbers substantially higher if we don't, not to be threatening but in a sobering and honest way we can't bend the curve if everybody is out on a beautiful thursday, friday, saturday or sunday. let me just close on one additional point. there's been a lot of talk about when this will end, been a lot of national conversations about that. and i have tried to be as transparent as i can based on expertise we brought around us and expertise we source on an hourly not just daily basis here in the state.

one thing i know when you have a country that just had a hundred deaths that we have trend lines that are becoming headlines that make us very sober about meeting this moment. the reason we did the stay at home order and the reason i'm pleased so many governors across the country have done the same is we are trying to bend the curve in realtime. we can talk about south korea and china and it is remarkable, i was talking to one of the largest retailers in the world they're opening back up their stores in china. that's a wonderful point of optimi optimism. it's a very good thing. but remember what they did in south korea, testing everybody. remember what they did in china that make what we're doing pale in comparison if you want to bend the curve we have to meet this moment head only and act differently. sum total quite literally, hundreds and millions of people

acting differently to meet this moment, maximize a little bit of inconvenience in the short-term to minimize the extraodinary inconvenience over the long term. so we are looking, the next eight weeks, on our curve, maybe the next eight to twelve weeks to address this surge and again do it in a thoughtful and pragmatic way, looking at physical resources and beds, looking at protective gear, including new ventilators to meet the needs in our icu's and of course the human resources that are so critical to continue to function as we should and you all demand and expect. so some progress and a little bit of promotion for some better behavior from some folks, all of us, and a recognize that the next week or two we've got a lot of work to do and we're going to have to get very, very serious and lean in and hit this moment

head on. and so, that's broad strokes updates for the evening. of course here always to answer any questions from members of the media. >> not quite as broad stroke as he is led to believe, he is quite detailed in his update in what's going on. now he talked about real progress being made, the state accelerating dramatically and ended with a strong admonition for all californians to do better shelter in place. >> got to keep that social distance. >> one of the toughest thing is to maintain what we're doing and even increase a lot has changed overnight. but buick and gmc's commitment to you, remains the same. we understand you want to feel safe. so we're offering current owners complementary onstar crisis assist services. should you need a vehicle,

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