In his first live update of 2021, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state is working to accelerate the administration of COVID-19 vaccines across the state, including expanding the number of distribution sites and the types of people who can give the shots. You can watch the full news conference below: Newsom said the state has
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This year brought 151 days of 100°+ temperatures to the Palm Springs area, earning the city the number one spot in the record books. The longest consecutive triple digit temperature stretch was 71 days. Palm Springs also recorded more 110°+ days than any other year (66 days). The hottest high was 122° which was reached
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Insisting that safety is “non-negotiable,” Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a $2 billion plan today to get young students back to in-person learning as early as spring. It is unclear how quickly such a move would occur in Southern California, which is being particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposal calls for a “phased-in,
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The regional stay at home order in Southern California will remain in place for the time being, Dr. Ghaly, California Health and Human Services Secretary, announces Tuesday afternoon. You can watch it live in the player below: Ghaly said that a region must remain under the order for at least three week and will remain
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Governor Gavin Newsom is giving a live update at noon on Monday. You can watch it live on News Channel 3 and in the player below: During the update, Newsom said that while the initial regional stay-at-home order was set to end today, the Southern Californian region continues to struggle with ICU bed availability. MORE:
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Governor Gavin Newsom held a “virtual conversation” with Secretary of State Alex Padilla and Assemblymember Shirley Weber. Newsom named Alex Padilla to take the U.S. Senator position that will be vacated by the next Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris. And Assemblymember Shirley Weber will take Alex Padilla’s place as California’s Secretary of
Continue Reading Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that the regional stay-at-home order in Southern California is likely to be extended beyond its current expiration date of Dec. 28 due to continued surge of COVID-19 cases. It’s remains unclear how long it might be extended. You can watch the full update below: Newsom added that the state
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A California appeals court on Friday blocked a judge’s order allowing San Diego County restaurants to resume indoor and outdoor dining, keeping Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home edict in full effect. A three-judge panel’s brief order gave no explanation and came almost immediately after the state asked for emergency intervention. Two strip
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The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert has announced plans to reopen limited operations. The zoo has not been open to the public since California’s recent regional stay home orders mandated the closure of many business sectors, including zoos, museums, and aquariums. The facility now plans to reopen daytime operations with modifications, by
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Diego Rose puts the finishing touches on a sign welcoming customers to his restaurant in Beaumont, Marla’s Cocina and Cantina. The restaurant and the bar are open for business as usual. “The unintended consequences of all of this is probably going to be far worse than the safety gains made by all the decisions,” said
Continue Reading Governor Gavin Newsom is speaking at 9:30 Monday morning about the implementation of a new regional stay-at-home order that began over the weekend. You can watch it live on News Channel 3 and in the player below: The stay-at-home order is impacting residents in the Southern California and San Joaquin Valley areas. It was triggered
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A cut-off low pressure system lingers over SoCal bringing cloud cover and holding temps to the lower seventies today and into tomorrow Partly cloudy skies will stick around until the low finally drifts farther South. Despite that, a Red Flag Warning has reappeared, with strong off-shore winds developing that will push dew points lower, and
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The entire region of Southern California is failing to meet the state’s requirements that would allow it to avert a full stay-at-home order. Under the state’s new stay-at-home order, if a region’s ICU capacity falls below 15% the order will become enacted within 24 hours. On Sunday afternoon, the available ICU capacity in the Southern
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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco released a video Friday afternoon criticizing Governor Gavin Newsom and said that the department won’t be “blackmailed” into enforcing the pending stay-at-home orders. Newsom announced the new regional stay-at-home orders on Thursday. The orders go into effect when the ICU bed capacity in a region falls below 15%. It isn’t
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Governor Gavin Newsom announced a new regional stay-at-home order that will be triggered when fewer than 15% of beds are available in ICUs for regional hospital networks. Watch Newsom’s full announcement below: Newsom said the order isn’t currently in place for any of the regions, but that could change within the next few days. ICU
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Monsignor Howard Lincoln at Sacred Heart Church in Palm Desert talked about the possibility of having parishioners celebrating mass back indoors once again. “We’d love to get back inside the church. We’ve been outside now for two months,” said Lincoln. Lincoln reacted Monday to last week’s decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that temporarily bars the state
Continue Reading Governor Gavin Newsom shared startling numbers in his latest coronavirus update and issued a warning of more drastic action that if the case and hospitalization surge continue at its current rate. You can watch the full update below: “If these trends continue, we’re going to have to take much more dramatic, arguably drastic action,” Newsom
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California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly was live at Noon providing an update on the response to coronavirus cases. You can watch the full news conference below: Ghaly shared the latest look at the county tiers. Riverside County saw a big increase in its new cases per day 100K metric. In total,
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The first time the “Forever Marilyn” statue was set up in the downtown area in 2012, the statue proved to be a big draw for 26 months. As a result, it also led to a spike in business for merchants in the area, according to the manager at ANDECOR on Palm Canyon Drive. “It was
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Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz formally introduced legislation to help mitigate the environmental crisis at the Salton Sea on Thursday. The bill, called the “Salton Sea Public Health and Environmental Protection Act,” follows a congressional hearing on the Salton Sea in late September, the first hearing on the environmental crisis at the lake since 1997. The
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