mary ellen carroll or dr. colfax, either one of you want to address that? okay. >> thank you. mary ellen carroll, department of emergency management. so we are centralizing resource acquisition and purchasing and distribution. we are working hand in hand with the department of public health to identify the resources that are needed and to make the appropriate purchases and also request for aid through the state and the federal government. the public health department will be our link to our partners here to determine the overall city needs. all of that will be centralized here through the emergency operations center, and we will work through our existing system in order to ensure that we both are aware of what our needs are, what our burn rates are, as we use it, and where we need to come in where our gaps are. >> dominick, do you have a follow-up? >> yes. just a question about the modelling. with new york sort of being the test case, if you will, or something that's fed into how san francisco's plan came together, can someone just speak a little bit about how the modelling wor

partners here today, with mayor breed's leadership, with the collaboration and cooperation of mary ellen carroll's department, to work together locally. but there are situations that could put us in a scenario like new york city is in, where our capacities are far exceeded and would require the help of state and federal health. >> liz from abc 7. are you on the line? okay. i'm going to move on. wilson from kpix. wilson, kpix, next question. >> i understand the scenarios are always changes. you mentioned see -- always changing. you mentioned seeing the surge in two weeks. as you understand that path now, can you tell us what it looks like in terms of, i guess, sharpness, for lack of a better word, and duration. if that's the start in less than two weeks, what kind of a timeline? >> i cannot give you a specific timeline at this point. i'm basing the surge information -- if you look at the curves in new york right now, if you looked at what happened in wuhan, china, the curves are very steep. trying to get as specific as you're asking for, we simply cannot do. we're tracking the data to see what the

. >> please call out if you need me to spell the names but i will go through the list, mary ellen carroll, executive director of the department of emergency management, jeffrey toomen, robert powers from bart, general manager, joaquin tores will join us, the director of the office of economic and work force development, trent roar, executive director for the san francisco human service agency. and jeff ka sin ski director of homelessness and housing. and if you could hold your remarks until the last speaker, that would be appreciated. and who will not be giving remarks and will answer questions are several department, the deputy chief red mond redmond from the sheriff's office, and mary marimoto. the department of san francisco, department of building inspections. >> we are waiting for the news conference from bart and muni, really outlining what to expect in these days and weeks to come, when it comes to public transportation. before we listen in more on this news conference, we will talk about, we will hear from mayor london breed earlier this afternoon about the shelter in order in pla

mary ellen carroll or dr. colfax, either one of you want to address that? okay. >> thank you. ry ellen carroll, department of emergency management. so we are centralizing resource acquisition and purchasing and distribution. we are working hand in hand with the department of public health to identify the resources that are needed and to make the appropriate purchases and also request for aid through the state and the federal government. the public health department will be our link to our partners here to determine the overall city needs. all of that will be centralized here through the emergency operations center, and we will work through our existing system in order to ensure that we both are aware of what our needs are, what our burn rates are, as we use it, and where we need to come in where our gaps are. >> dominick, do you have a follow-up? >> yes. just a question about the modelling. with new york sort of being the test case, if you will, or something that's fed into how san francisco's plan came together, can someone just speak a little bit about how the modelling works

california emergency management director mary ellen carroll said the quarantine would remain in effect at least until test results are completed friday morning. >> 2300 83 passengers aboard the ship and 1100 crew members. shownt, total of 35 have flulike symptoms during the course of this 15 day crews. amy: health officials are tracking down some 2500 people who disembarked from an earlier cruise on the grand princess, after some passengers tested positive for coronavirus, including a 71-year-old man who died earlier this week. across the united states, the centers for disease control has confirmed at least 129 cases, although the number is probably higher due to the severe shortage of test kits. maryland declared a state of emergency thursday after three montgomery county residents became infected. there are also states of emergency in effect in california and washington, where a 12th u.s. death was reported in king county thursday. public health officials have recommended more than to my and people in and around seattle work from home if possible. the advice came despite president tr