Watch: Gavin Newsom announces how California will decide when to ease shutdown orders

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a plan to eventually release the state from stay-at-home orders at a noon news briefing Tuesday, according to his office. Watch a recording of the livestream by clicking on the video below.

Newsom discussed “parameters and tools needed before the state would modify California’s statewide stay-at-home orders and other broad COVID-19 interventions,” his office wrote in a news release.

He said Monday that he does not plan to announce a “pin-pointed date” for reopening, but rather will describe what evidence state officials will need to see that danger from the virus has waned before they make changes to the orders.

“We will be driven by facts, we will be driven by evidence, we will be driven by science, we will be driven by our public health advisers,” Newsom said Monday, previewing Tuesday’s announcement.

Newsom said evidence that the state is slowing the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 convinced him this is the right time to start planning to reopen the economy.

On Monday, Newsom said he will work with the governors of Oregon and Washington on a plan for the “incremental release of the stay-at-home” orders. That plan will rely on science, “not political pressure,” he said.

A Monday statement from Newsom, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee did not have specifics about which parts of the economy can reopen first or when that process will start. Instead, it outlined common principles, including that “residents’ health comes first,” that the states must work together and that data must show a that viral transmission is slowing significantly before broad reopening of the states’ economies.

This story was originally published April 14, 2020 at 11:30 AM.