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People wait in a line to enter a gun store in Culver City, Calif., Sunday, March 15, 2020. Coronavirus concerns have led to consumer panic buying of grocery staples, and now gun stores are seeing a similar run on weapons and ammunition as panic intensifies. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

San Francisco Bay Area counties issue shelter-in-place order

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to reporters about his executive order advising that non-essential gatherings of more than 250 people should be canceled until at least the end of March, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California governor calls for closure of all bars, wineries

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and STEFANIE DAZIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2019, file photo, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric vehicles are parked at the PG&amp;E Oakland Service Center in Oakland, Calif. Pacific Gas &amp; Electric on Monday, March 16, 2020, won court approval to raise $23 billion to help pay its bills over destructive California wildfires after Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped his opposition to a financing package designed to help the nation's largest utility get out of bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Court approves PG&E’s $23B bankruptcy financing package

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2017, file photo Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, speaks during a joint legislative hearing in Sacramento, Calif. A spokesman for the 71-year-old Weber, announced that she would miss Monday's Assembly session &quot;adhering to the recommendation set forth from for the governor. &quot; On Sunday Gov. Gavin Newsom urged the state's 5.3. million people 65 and older to stay at home. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California Legislature suspends until April 13 amid outbreak

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 11, 2020, fans leave a concession stand at the Golden 1 Center before the Sacramento Kings were scheduled to play the New Orleans Pelicans in an NBA basketball game in Sacramento, Calif. The January jobs report shows the California economy added 21,400 new jobs with the biggest gains in the education, health services and leisure and hospitality services. But with the outbreak of the coronavirus, those numbers could take a drastic downward change with Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order closing schools, conferences, Disneyland and the NBA's suspension of its season. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California’s January jobs report reflects rosy past

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom displays a bottle of hand sanitizer while saying the state would take action against price gouging because of the coronavirus, at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, March 4, 2020. In the aftermath of the first California resident to die from the coronavirus, Newsom declared a state declared a statewide emergency to deal with the virus. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) ** FILE **

California governor: No large gatherings due to coronavirus

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

In another coronavirus precaution, California officials cordoned off the sculpture of a bear outside the office of Gov. Gavin Newsom, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The sculpture was purchased by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and was quickly nicknamed &quot;Bacteria Bear,&quot; after it became a favorite backdrop for photographs and selfies by school children and other Capitol visitors. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Disneyland closes as California rushes to battle coronavirus

By ADAM BEAM and KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, center, discusses the meeting concerning the state's homeless situation he and other mayors of some of California's largest cities had with Gov. Gavin Newsom at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 9, 2020. Accompanying Liccardo are, from left, Libby Schaaf, of Oakland, Eric Garcetti, of Los Angeles, second from left, Liccardo, London Breed, of San Francisco, fourth from left, Michael Tubbs, of Stockton, fifth from from left, and Kevin Faulconer, of San Diego, right. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California big city mayors chat homelessness with Newsom

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

Child care provider Pat Alexander helps children, Isaiah, left, and Hector, right, identify various types of dinosaurs at her child care center in Elk Grove, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to consolidate the state's array of child care programs and to spend up to $10 million a year to create a new Department of Early Childhood Development. The plan has gotten some criticism from some child care providers who question the wisdom of spending millions to create a new bureaucracy. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California governor seeks overhaul of child care programs

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 9, 2019, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom gestures towards a chart with proposed funding to deal with the state's homelessness as he discusses his revised state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. The governor is calling for better mental health care to help treat the state's large homeless population as he addresses one of the state's most pressing problems in his second State of the State speech to be given Wednesday, Feb. 19. 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California governor makes homelessness top issue in 2020

By ADAM BEAM and DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

California governor seeks to expand involuntary treatment

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Analyst urges California to reject switch to short probation

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2016, file photo, a condemned inmate walks along the east block of death row at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. More than 700 condemned inmates on California's largest-in-the-nation death row will soon have a chance to voluntary transfer from San Quentin to other high security prisons under a program required by the passage of a 2016 ballot initiative. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

California to move some condemned inmates off death row

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - This Dec. 14, 1970, file photo shows civil rights leader Bayard Rustin at the New York Hilton. California's governor announced Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, that he is posthumously pardoning Rustin, a gay civil rights leader, while creating a new pardon process for others convicted under outdated laws punishing homosexual activity. Rustin was a confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a key organizer of the March on Washington in 1963, and helped plan other nonviolent protests and boycotts to end racial discrimination. He served 50 days in Los Angeles County jail and had to register as a sex offender before returning to his home state of New York. He died in 1987. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)

California pardons gay civil rights leader in new initiative

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, people fish along the Sacramento River in the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta, near Courtland, Calif. Gov Gavin Newsom proposed new rules on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, to keep more water in the delta while restoring 60,000 acres of habitat for endangered species and generating more than $5 billion in new funding for environmental improvements. The framework, if approved, would be in place for 15 years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California governor proposes new plan for managing water

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2019, file photo, vehicles pass a sign welcoming people to Paradise, Calif. The sign also displays the slogan, &quot;Rebuilding The Ridge,&quot; that has become the community's rallying cry since a wildfire devastated the area a year earlier. Gov. Gavin Newsom says California has completed 34 of the forest thinning projects it rushed to finish in the past year as a way to buffer 200 communities at high risk from wildfires. Newsom was expected to discuss the projects and other wildfire-related issues, including the future of the state's largest electric utility, during a public interview Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California completes 34 land projects to slow wildfires

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

California asks for surplus federal land to house homeless

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom is urging a federal judge to reject Pacific Gas and Electric's blueprint for getting out of bankruptcy and renewing his threat to lead a bid to turn the beleaguered utility into a government-run operation. PG&amp;E is trying to dig out of a financial hole created by more than $50 billion in claims stemming from a series of catastrophic wildfires that have been blamed on the San Francisco company. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California governor aims to block PG&E’s bankruptcy plan

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - Associated Press

California governor asked to pardon late gay rights leader

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 30, 2019 file photo, tents housing homeless line a street in downtown Los Angeles. Nonprofit health care system Kaiser Permanente today announced it will be the first private sector contributor to Newsom's newly announced fund to combat homelessness in the state, committing $25 million to the effort. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Kaiser, Blue Shield pledge $45M to California housing fund

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