and we'll do another one it looks like. they want to do it very badly. maybe they'll want to wait. like iran. they want to bawait to see whetr trump gets beaten in the election. they'd love to negotiate with someone other than me. that's their best dream in the world. so there are some that may be waiting until after november 3rd, election day. but i think we're doing very well. it would be sad if we blew all of the advantages that we have right now because we've made unbelievable trade deals. whether it's you have been watching the white house daily press briefing. president trump speaking right now. you can stream the rest of it if you like to watch it at a abcnews.com. the abc 7 news at 3:00 starts right now. we have been covering this all day long from asking a dating coach or questions during the pandemic to asking a doctor your questions about the ,

paoctorhe oaning us. i'm christin zee. if you want to watch the rest of the white house news briefing you can do so at abc7news.com. we are going to bring you our 3:00 edition of abc 7 news. we are streaming right now on facebook live. we want to interact with all of you. jump in and talk with us on facebook live and pose your questions or even just say hi if you would like. we are also streaming on youtube. our app and abc 7 news.com. of course, we are on tv and the benefit of tv is you get the added content in the breaks and interact. let's start with all the head loons from today. we'll start worldwide. the labor department reports for than 3 million people filed for unemployment insurance in the past week, but the dow ended up

1,300 points higher giving it the biggest three-day surge in 90 years. the stimulus package, that's expected to pass congress tomorrow. the senate voted yes. the house is next. is credited with helping the spike. locally there are 1,331 cases and 30 deaths related to covid-19. the coronavirus test site in hayward set up a help 510-583-4949. now, our goal of making this 3:00 p.m. new cast your show is to have you participate in the live interviews. go to the facebook or youtube page and ask your questions and then i'll try to relay them to the guest expert. and today we do have an expert. dr. peter chin-hong, an infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at ucsf. thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> we have to start with the biggest number just come out an

i guess only a matter of time but the u.s. now has 82,000 confirmed cases pushing us just past china, past italy, meaning we now have the most number of cases in the world. does this surprise you that it happened so quickly? >> it doesn't surprise me at all. it was something we were fearing all along and i would say that that's an underestimate because we haven't rolled out enough testing in the united states in general so what you are seeing is the tip of the iceberg. >> all right. so then based on models you are seeing and the testing, what do you think the real number might be, at least a range? >> i think it's really hard to say. you are seeing the severe cases going into the hospital and testing in the community. right now, testing strategy in the u.s. i would say in general has been very disparate meaning that different states have different capacities and doing different, rolling out testing

in different ways and also reactive, not proactive. so when people come into the hospital with symptoms and call a hotline, we are triaging tests to those who have a higher pretest probability of having the real deal and we know in covid-19 many people who have mild symptoms or no symptoms have covid-19. >> all right. well, i'm almost a little scared to ask you this question then but where are we in terms of that wave that we see in all the graphs? how close are we to being at the peak? i know that depends on a lot of factors, depending on what we each do to social distance and shelter in place, but what is the best modeling say right now about how close we are to the peak? >> i think we are at just beginning. i think different places are at different stages so i think new york city, you know, maybe hopefully getting to the peak or the plateau.

obviously, california i think hasn't seen that yet. there's no -- we are hoping in california and in the bay area that we'll never hit that peak as high as new york city because, again, we instituted public health measures before new york city did. >> that's right. we were about a week ahead of them and the numbers show it. i want to ask questions to you. nelly says i live in livermore and found out two deaths in my city. what does this mean for our community? what precautions should our city do for us or what should we do? >> i think in the absence of widespread testing i think it is really important for residents in the bay area to think about the four "s"s to keep yourself safe. the first is sanitizing. of course, we focus on hand washing and 20 seconds and using hand sanitizers. the next "s" is surfaces. so you want to clean all

surfaces as much as possible. the third "s" is probably one of the most important things in the bay area we have done which is social distancing. three to six feet away from someone. because of lack of testing, we don't know if that person has covid-19 or not. may have very mild symptoms. >> "s" which s important to stay home if we feel sick. >> all right. we're going to ask a question now that was posed on twitter from a viewer. what is the difference between the last pandemic ten years ago and this? i assume they mean the swine flu. >> they might have meant the sars epidemic, the original sars in asia. i'll speak to both of them. the most interesting comparison as a clinician is how is this

different from the first sars? there's actually a very big difference in one way that i think is important for public health an for people to know. in the first sars, people didn't really start transmitting virus to each other until they started to feel sick and it was easy for someone knowing they were sick, you kind of don't want to give it to somebody else and stay away from them. and this sars, sars covid-2, that causes covid-19, we know from early studies the peak of viral transmission is just when people are not as yet quite sick so that's why there's been we think more infection and more transmission in the community. but again, there's something that each of us can do and those are the four "s"s i talked about. >> okay. rich asks are the people with mild symptoms recovering without the symptoms progressing? >> so the people are recovering. i feel that they probably as a clinician, i don't think they're

going to be progressing anymore. i feel they're on the home stretch. i think the interesting question is really are they still trance missible to other people. that's something we're grappling with from the medicine side and i think there's one test that i think people working on very feverishly and that's going to probably revolutionize when people can be safe and when they can go back to work and that's actually the sirology test, developing a test to check anti-body responses so you can imagine because i told you people don't know they might have it if you can demonstrate that somebody is anti-body positive or they had anti-bodies to the virus they have like a magic force field around them and probably just interact with others and that's tantalizing a thing i'm most excited about. >> this is kind of a related question and this is if people were to recover from it, does

that mean they have immunity now? and if they do, for how long? do we know? >> exactly. i can answer the first part of the question. i'm getting a good sense of it based on my knowledge of other infections. the common cold, everybody knows about that. well about 200 viruses can cause the common cold so of course you can get it again because the chances of somebody in kindergarten with that runny nose having the same one that you have is going to be very unlikely given that there are chances of 200 things causing it. with sars covid-2 that causes covid-9 it is one thing. we think if you get it you probably won't get it again and there's interesting monkey studies where they gave the monkeys covid-19 and they tried to infect them again and this was recently published within the last few days, the monkeys didn't get it again. we think in humans once you get it you wont get it again but we don't know how long the immunity

will last. >> that's hope. we have another question from someone asking, i read that this could be transmitted by air. is that true? >> that's not -- well, i mean it is true in a very sort of technical sense but not true -- it is not like tb or measles. we have spent time thinking about that. in measles for a contrast, a person sits in the room, leave the room and come in the room without that other person there you can get measles. respiratory viruses, they're a virus to travel on a drop. the drop is very heavy compared to tb and measles. the drop falls within three feet and that's why when you stand three to six feet from somebody, even if they have it, you won't get. six feet is so valuable. >> absolutely. >> to answer the question in general, it is not really in the air like tb or measles and why

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habits. i have three easy ways to engage the kids in the kitchen. double chocolate brownie. animal toast and toaster pastries. >> all easy to make? >> and half the sugar. let's make double chocolate brownies. what i love is it is in the food processor. and a secret ingredient. >> what is it? >> sweet potato. this adds natural sweetness and half the fiber. sweet potato goes in. melted butter, egg and egg yolk. when you take the sugar out it helps bind it. almond butter. the other nice thing is it's gluten free. >> is it? >> made with sweet potato. maple syrup. have na vanilla. >> chocolate? >> unsweetened cocoa powder and pulse a couple times. go. there you go. now let it run. >> okay. >> like this. once it is all blended stir in

the chocolate chips. this is one cup of semisweet chocolate chips. just give it a little stir. >> just about it. >> and then just popping this into the oven. 27 minutes. 350, done. right? give it a taste. >> all right. can't wait. >> super fudgy. >> it is super chocolatey. >> delicious. number two, adorable animal toast. 0 owl. i do it with strawberry jam. a few little strawberries on the side. slivered almonds. >> for the feathers? >> yes. >> i have almond butner there for you. spread that o bananas for the nose and the ears. great. now the blueberries just pop one additional on the nose to make a snout. >> okay. >> and then two for the eyes.

>> wow! >> easy! >> art class and cooking class in one. >> occupied and having a healthy snack afterwards. >> this i a berry good idea. >> number three is tasty toaster pastries. cut the dough into six long strips. >> okay. >> give it a cut there. this is a strawberry jam i made to put inside. put a little section right there and theneat u okay.erel i'm ready. ready, coach! >> there you go! so easy. isn't that satisfying? >> yeah. >> you fold it over like that and then press together the sides like this. >> okay. >> with your fork. >> oh okay. >> okay? the kids work on did design. just sealing up the side. >> i see, i see, i see. >> you poke the

all right? you're ba you're baking it 12, 13 minutes until it's golden on top. give it a taste. also great. you can freeze them. >> i just tasted the pureness of the strawberry. not too sweet. a winner. >> good. >> okay. it was just an excuse for me to eat. actually, those are all great ideas to try with your kids with time at home. karen, i wanted to mention on facebook, karen mentioned that you made pesto with the kids. yum! that sounds great. post a picture for us. if you happen to make those, the monkey toast, for example, share that with us. #us and we'll try to put it on air. all right. we have covered important questions about the coronavirus, cooking at home and now dating. a dating coach will be joining us to talk about how to do it effectively in the stay at hom

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quarantine, the usage of the dating apps goes way up because when you're home what else will you do? i would just recommend rather than -- going to do the dating apps, rather than text someone for the rest of eternity, have an end goal in mind. since that end goal can't be an actual face to face date, maybe that end goal is a phone call this time around or maybe it's a video chat like this. maybe it's a zoo call. but remember, when you are doing that phone call or that zoom call, you are still making a first impression. it is still a first date even if you have pajama pants on the bottom. make sure -- i'm not kidding. so just make sure you're still putting yourself together, wearing an outfit you would feel proud in, you want someone to see you for a first impression and don't worry about who pays. >> that's a good -- that is very true. i'm a fan of the show on netflix >>ht? is

it's bette to talk on phone and don't look at them, the other person. >> it's just different. >> the personality, yeah. >> yeah. it is just different. in normal circumstances, i actually don't give the advice to talk on the phone before meeting because it is really easy to judge someone based on one thing. their phone voice or their, you know, some little tick or something like that but in case it is aay t meet -- to get to know someone in the absence of being able to meet people. just remember that you can't get the whole ofomeone'si guess aura or whatever you want to call it if you're on the phone but, again, if you are on the phone or especially if you're on zoom, i looked at the background here a million times to make sure i didn't have a loose sock or something. the people are seeing the toilet seat up or dead plant and take extra precautions and clean up. >> that's right. watch the zoom background there.

tom has a question for us on facebook. >> sure. >> how about sending someone uc care?wers as a surprise to >> i would not do that if you haven't met someon before because that would come off as -- coming on too strong. >> okay. >> if you are dating someone, you have met them several times and just not able to see them right now, flowers are amazing. while deliveries ared s a thgso make sure somebody knows you're them. it would be coming on too strong to send somebody you don't know flowers. >> a 20 something in the newsroom said what if we go out on an actual date but a hiking date and maintain six to eight feet apart? is that okay? >> that's a matter of personal preference. some of my clients have been meeting people for walks, standing six feet apart. some l comfortabtelling someone.

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cigarettes and drink booze and all this put together is probably what's causing this difference in death rates. but it's still early. these numbers could change as we get more tests and more data. so in the meantime, stay safe and stay stay tuneded for more covid-19 updates. >> all right. good advice as usual from the doctor. we'll give you a quick recap of what we covered today and the latest coronavirus developments in the u.s. the labor department reports more than 3 million people filed for unemployment insurance in the last week but the dow ended up up 1300 giving it the biggest 3-day surge in 90 years but after many, many down days. the stimulus package that's expected to pass the house tomorrow it already passed the senate today. and then after that it will go to the president for signature. that is being credited for helping the spike of enthusiasm from investors there. locally, there are 1,331 cases

and 30 deaths related to covid-19. the coronavirus test site in hayward has set up a help line for you. 510-583-4949. but remember, we reported today that they have tightened up restrictions on who can get the testing. they have to cut back a little bit because the demand was so high and also want to reset so that they can provide some mobile testing services to the first responders. i want do give you global figures. the latest right now, 526,000 so about half million cases confirmed in the world. the u.s. just this afternoon took over the top spot, not a spot we want, but in terms of number of cases 82,000 now. china has 81,000 something. italy at 81,000 something. spain at 56,000. so that number is still growing for us, folks.

best we can do is social distancing and sheltering in place. thank you so much for joining us today on this new experimental intera tonight, the coronavirus in the u.s. this sobering headline late today. the u.s. now has the most confirmed cases of coronavirus in the world. the death toll in the u.s. now topping 1,000. this country's deadliest 24 hours yet. tonight, we take you inside one new york city hospital. a doctor's plea for help. the e.r. and the icu overflowing. more than 100 new deaths in new york city overnight. the truck that pulled up to the hospital for the dead. out front, more patients lined up to get in. and tonight, we've now learned new york state is moving toth u for two critically ill patients because of the shortage. and now, the other hot spots in this country. in new jersey tonight. nearly 2,500 new cases. the alarmi