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- ABC News
- May 2, 2020
LA announces increase in COVID deaths, cases
Hundreds of protesters came out in Huntington Beach, California.
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Cuomo once again got personal at Friday's briefing, noting that a \"silver lining\" of the crisis is the time he's getting with his daughter.
The governor recalled that his youngest daughter, age 22, pointed out to him: \"I have spent more time with you now than I will probably spend with you and the rest of my adult life.\"
\"That's probably true,\" Cuomo said. \"You try to find the silver lining, you try to stay positive.\"
The Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in Brooklyn, New York, has had its operating license suspended, according to a statement Friday from New York Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker.
Zucker's office was investigating the funeral home after as many as 100 decomposing bodies were found there in unrefrigerated trucks.
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Zucker called the funeral home's actions \"appalling, disrespectful to the families of the deceased, and completely unacceptable.\"
\"A crisis is no excuse for the kind of behavior we witnessed at Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home, and we are holding them accountable,\" Zucker said.
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Police responded to reports Wednesday of a foul odor outside the funeral home and discovered dozens of decomposing bodies in two U-Haul trucks and a U-Haul van.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called the circumstance \"unconscionable\" and noted the city has been transferring some of the coronavirus victims to freezer trucks for preservation.
FEMA is building long-term storage for corpses as part of its Disaster Portable Morgue Unit with a capacity of nearly 3,000.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it will ship 14-day supplies of personal protective equipment to more than 15,400 Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing homes.
The PPE shipments -- eye protection, surgical masks, gowns, gloves -- will start next week with a focus on major cities, FEMA said. By the beginning of July, nursing homes in all 50 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam, will receive shipments.
In hard-hit New York City, \"This virus is tragically still alive and well,\" Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday.
New York City saw 2,637 confirmed new cases of the coronavirus on Thursday, and 202 people in the city died on Thursday, he said.
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\"We have to realize that numbers like that tell us there's still a real fight ahead,\" de Blasio said. \"If you open the door a little bit ... it comes back strong.\"
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De Blasio announced Friday that Paul Cary, a paramedic from Aurora, Colorado, who came to New York City to help during the crisis, had died from the coronavirus.
After three decades of serving the people of Aurora, de Blasio said, \"He made the choice to come here and save lives.\"
\"Paul gave his life for us,\" the mayor said, calling him \"heroic.\"
De Blasio said a memorial will be created in New York City to honor him and \"to remember all those who came to our defense.\"
As the weather warms, New York City is opening streets to pedestrians and bicyclists to ease crowding.
The first streets will open on Monday with 4.5 miles inside parks and 2.7 miles of streets adjacent to parks, de Blasio said.
Gatherings still remain off limits and the minute police know about a gathering, it will be shut down, de Blasio warned. He said if New Yorkers want to reach \"normalcy,\" they cannot participate in or condone a gathering.
Even on sunny days like today, people should still continue to practice Social Distancing!
— NYPD Central Park (@NYPDCentralPark) April 28, 2020
We all have to do this together New York!
Let’s keep it up! pic.twitter.com/0EvlTVBCXS
Subways will shut down from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. to allow proper cleaning and disinfecting. This is believed to be the first time the subway has had a regularly scheduled, system wide halt in the 52 years of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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At least 98 MTA workers have died from the coronavirus, MTA Chairman and CEO Pat Foye said.
Alaska Airlines and Southwest on Friday became the latest airlines to announce they will require passengers wear face coverings.g on May 11. This means all major U.S. airlines have made that a requirement for passengers.
The new policies from both Alaska Airlines and Southwest will take effect May 11.
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Passengers must wear face coverings beginning May 4 on United Airlines, Delta Airlines and JetBlue Airways. American Airlines travelers must wear face coverings beginning May 11.
On Thursday U.S. airports saw more travelers than they had any other day in April.
The TSA screened 154,695 travelers throughout the day -- the highest daily number since March 29. However, U.S. travel is still down over 94% compared to last year.
Four inmates have died of COVID-19 at Terminal Island prison, a low security federal correctional institution in San Pedro, California.
Another 600, nearly 60-percent of the prison population, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
\"The government has a responsibility to protect people in its care, including inmates,\" Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragan, whose district includes Terminal Island, told ABC Los Angeles station KABC in a statement. \"The leadership at Terminal Island has clearly failed to do that.\"
\"There are alternatives that can keep non-violent inmates safe, like home confinement. We need prison leadership to consider those alternatives, especially to the vulnerable, and stop the spread of this disease at Terminal Island,\" Barragan's statement said.
Inside the Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities, there are 1,692 federal inmates and 349 staff members who have tested positive for COVID-19 nationwide. There have been at least 33 inmate coronavirus deaths in BOP facilities, according to the organization.
The Huntington Beach City Council voted to pursue a legal challenge to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's beach closure order Thursday night.
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\"Governor Newsom’s mandate to close all beaches in Orange County today was a jarring decision that significantly impacts us here in Huntington Beach,\" Mayor Lyn Semeta said in a statement. \"Given that Orange County has among the lowest per-capita COVID-19 death rates in California, the action by the state prioritizes politics over data, in direct contradiction of the Governor’s stated goal to allow science and facts to guide our response to this horrible global pandemic.\"
The council voted 5-2 to seek \"any and all legal actions necessary\" to challenge Newsom's order.
Newsom said photos of overcrowding at beaches with little social distancing gave him no choice but to protect public health by ordering the beaches close.
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\"Everyone saw those images and we're all concerned about that. ... That's what ultimately led to this decision,\" Newsom said Thursday.
California has more than 50,000 diagnosed COVID-19 cases and at least 2,036 deaths.
ABC News' Gio Benitez, Greg Bradbury, Mark Crudele, Anne Flaherty, Marilyn Heck, Mina Kaji, Aaron Katersky, Rachel Katz, Arielle Mitropoulos, Gina Sunseri and Jennifer Watts contributed to this report.
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