Mayor Garcia: Over the course of the next two to three weeks, we're entering a very critical time for the City, for our hospitals and for our emergency services.

We are as you know seeing an increase of cases, and we're seeing an increase of people who need medical attention and who need respirator machines, not just in hospitals here locally but across the country. I'm in coversation with the heads of all four of our hospitals here in Long Beach. Their message to you, and my meesage to everyone watching -- your family, your friends -- is you need to please stay home to help us minimize people being infected and filling our hospital rooms when we need those hospital beds clear and empty.

In these next two to three weeks, we are either going to stay home, try our best to stay healthy and social distance, or we're going to fail at that and fill our hospitals to an emergency point where we will not have enough beds to be able to treat everyone that needs support and that needs a hospital bed.

So I'm asking you to please be responsible and think about our doctors, our nurses and our front line workers at our hospitals and clinics that are asking you to please stay healthy so that we can keep our hospital beds free for what we know will be a larger amount of people every day moving forward over the course of the next two to three weeks. So you must think of these next two to three weeks as critical times to do the right thing, so please do the right thing.