john costa, thank you for your time. let's stay in the united states and take you to new york city.square — one of the busiest tourist spots in the world — which you can see at the moment is empty. you can really just you can reallyjust recognise it by those incredible hoardings but new york state has been really the ha rd est york state has been really the hardest hit and has borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic in the united states where there have been more than 263,000 confirmed cases. the headlines on bbc news... coronavirus tests for uk key workers through the government website were booked up within an hour of it reopening this morning. all home testing kits were ordered in less than fifteen minutes. countries around europe pursue options to end the lockdown — belgium sets out a detailed plan to relax restrictions. meanwhile, a former uk chancellor calls on the government to set out how britain can ease its lockdown and restart the economy. british government ministers have been holding talks with the english premier league about allowing football matches to resume. ga

are worried their looming budget crisis could fall through the congressional crack contra costa's supervisor john joya says his county expects to spend 100 million of its reserves between march and june center. olikean >> county government is on the front lines of responding to this pandemic. we are arranging for medical capacit we run the ems system, the public health system. >> well, tonight, the white house and congress were democrats say they're close to a deal for more money to help struggling small businesses. treasury secretary steve mnuchin indicated relief could be on the way as soon as this wee the measure would include at least $3 million for the personal protection program and money for hospitals and testing>>> president donald trump praised governor gavin newsom for his handling of the coronavirus outbreak. >> he was really goo he was really good. and i appreciate the fact he said what he was wanting to say and he wasn't letting the press to force him into saying something he didn't want to sayso i appreciate very much the governor of california. he really -- he worked very hard. >>

and johns hopkins university reports more 582,000 cases, and the bay area has had cases. contra costa supervisors will request that governor newsom make this year's election a mail-in ballot only. >>> and then the governor he has been working with the governors of oregon and washington state to come up with a way to open up their states. you can watch the governor's announcement live right here on abc7, and you can stream it online at abc7news.com, and also if you download the abc7 news app, you will get push alerts with the details as soon as they are announced. >>> it's one of the things that has been hardest to see during the pandemic, and that is people who are struggling to make ends meet and get food on the table, and also our farmers dumping food and milk because that food is no longer needed at our nation's schools. we are starting to get ideas of possible solutions. let's go to jobina fortson for that. >> our farmers and food producers are watching their profits for the year to go down the drain, and it's difficult to see, as you mentioned, and this leaders as to come up from

1000 people have died from the virus in mexico john holeman reports on the challenges that american countries are face. if we talk about pap so salvador de costa rican central america who managed to keep that the case told relatively down they'd say that was because they acted firmly and quickly to try and resolve this but then you mentioned there peru which has had a really explosion in the number of cases and that country was also praised internally and externally for trying when the president tried to get rid of it fairly early on as well but obviously that hasn't quite worked out for them as well as they'd hoped to but there's other factors as well here you also mentioned ecuador which is had so many cases in why it killed its biggest city when it just had people being left on the streets it was no way to put them and it's been said that in that case that country had a lot of flights to spain where there was obviously a lot of cases as well so that also. also got involved with the time to there and you get brazil which is the worst affected country in the region we definitely have to say the pats it was a correlation between that to remove

costa county. >> this pandemic is showing no signs of slowing down in california. johns hopkins reporting there is more than 11,000 confirmed cases in the state. the bay area saw its total top 3,000 cases with santa clara county accounting for about a third of those. the number of patients in icu beds around the state now over 900. that's about four times the count from just last friday. ysisffs areal co's police chief siness owners found violating public health orders. >> we've had to cite a business in the last 24 hours, and we've cited individuals in the last 24 hours. and these are people that have been warned before. >> chief bill scott says there will be no more second chances. anyone or any business found violating the rules a second time will be cited. meanwhile, today mayor london breed issued a reminder about yesterday's recommendation from local health experts -- local health officer, rather, that people should wear a face covering when leaving home. >> there is no need for you to wear an n95 mask. we want to reserve those masks for health care workers. >> may

these are numbers, according to the johns hopkins, a global coronavirus tracker the coronavirus death toll is also rising in the bay area santa clara contra costa and alameda counties all reporting new deaths. >>the total number of deaths in the bay area now stands at 259 for a complete look at the cases in the bay area by county and by city. you can go to our website kron 4 dot com people across the city or taking in the nice weather today, many packs local parks to try to get some sun or enjoy a picnic. >>but crews are also on making sure people are following shelter in place rules by maintaining a safe social distance kron four's dan thorn live for us in the city tonight, he joins us with more on what he saw and i was driving around the city today lot of people outside enjoying it. >>well that's where i can and it's no wonder right it was a beautiful day out today and it was one of those days that you want to be outside the city's park seeing tons of visitors today but many of them were not wearing a mask and they were also not far apart from each other. at first glance it's another sun-soaked day at marina green, but of course it's not beca

. >> yesterday the contra costa health department ordered a halt to all nonessential residential and commercial construction projects. supervisor johnoya says that would include -- >> an office building, a store, a warehouse. so commercial projects that are not related to sort of an essential business. >> exceptions allow certain projects to continue, like health care facilities, affordable housing, public works projects, and shelters and temporary housing. the new guidelines mean more people are joining this construction painter in the unemployment line. >> i feel like i'm locked up. being like behind walls and stuff. because literally everybody out here are all on lockdown. >> that bay point project we showed you is affordable housing, so it is part of the exemption. to be honest, on our way here to walnut creek we saw a couple of different workworking, though t might have been considered nonessential. supervisor joya says the actual enforcement of the county health department guidelines will be left up to the local municipalities, and so far they've been more interested in using convincing arguments instead of law enforcement to

john. >> why wouldn't he read all the way through something that he tweets that might cause a national controversy, right? jim costa, thank you for that reporting. it's stunning sometimes the things his aides say about what to trust and believe and follow what the president said. it's him, it's not us. i want to bring in two great white house reporters, michael she shearer from the "new york times," cho. he is told from aides early on that he should act more aggressively. let's listen to dr. fauci because the president doesn't like it when people say things that are facts. >> you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. obviously no one is going to deny that. but what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. but you're right, obviously if we had, right from the very beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. but there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. >> michael shearer, he says a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. we know one of the important de

by the time thomas jefferson and john adams passed away july 4th, 1826, people in flounders, haiti, colombia, venezuela, new grenada, mexico, chile, perÚ, nicaragua, costarica, panama, the united provinces, bolivia and uruguay had all written their own declarations of independence. all of them modeled on ours. we know, in fact, that american travelers in chile and mexico actually distributed translations of our declaration there in the years before the chileans and the mexicans liberated themselves and multiple translations of our declaration also made their way to colombia, venezuela and ecuador over the course of the 50-year period after 1776. a half century known to scholars as the age of revolutions. so you could call it the age of declarations, too. as the harvard historian david armitage has shoern and i'm drawing on his work here, that age of revolutions was just the first of four great waves of declaration making in global history since 1776. a second wave swept around the world in the immediate aftermath of the first and second -- first world war. between 1918 and 1939 declarations of independence were central features of the demands for self-d

costa, what stood out to you? >> i want to go back to what the president was saying a about the world health organization because i echo what john king and john said. yes, they have their flaws, they have been criticized for that. but said that they have been calling it wrong throughout this crisis, but worth noting, wolf, on march 11th when the president gave the oval office address to the nation, he cited the world health organization because on that very same day, the w.h.o. declared that the coronavirus outbreak had become a pandemic so as john kirng king. there are people in wisconsin right now who are literally putting their health on the line going to the polls to try to vote in that presidential primary. and the president was asked about this, you know, how he could say that mail-in balloting would lead to voter fraud when he has mailed in his own ballots in the past and he conceded that. but getting back to, you know, this point that the president has time and again down played the outbreak, given rosy projections and so on, the president was asked about that earlier on in the briefing there and he said what the nation

john maguire, bbc news, bristol. you're watching a bbc news special coming off the back of the downing street press briefing. our health correspondent katharine da costaing at home over the bank holiday weekend and he thanked nhs staff who had been working over the holiday period. he said that although this has been a sobering death toll, there were early signs that things were starting to improve but we are not passed the peak yet. he talked about the lockdown and said that sage would be meeting, the scientific advisory group for emergencies, meeting tomorrow to consider reviewing and looking at the advice but dominic raab said they do not expect to be making any changes and would not make any until the evidence showed it was safe to do so. i think what they have been reiterating over a number of days now is that there are objectives of slowing the spread, getting people to stay at home, social distancing, is starting to work and the other objective that has been crucial is protecting the nhs, that means protecting the nhs, that means protecting capacity by making it sure it has the critical care beds, ventilators and staff. to that extent, the exper