Transcripts For KGO America This Morning 20240711

Heat on my hand, which was concerning. The skier who fell down a volcano vent talks about what happened next and how she got out. Plus, the High School Student fighting back after he was suspended for wearing nail polish. And the kitchen of the future is here. It doesnt just cook everything for you, it does the dishes too. Good monday morning, everyone. We begin with the coronavirus emergency. Much of california is entering a virtual lockdown today as the virus spreads out of control. The fda meets this week to discuss approving pfizers vaccine. The Trump Administration says by midjanuary up to 24 million americans will get vaccinated including Health Workers and nursing home residents. In the meantime, more than 1,000 lives are being lost every day. And now President Trumps attorney, 76yearold Rudy Giuliani, has tested positive after traveling the country. He says hes recovering in the hospital. More on him in a moment but first the new restrictions taking effect. This morning, more than 33 Million People in california now under strict stayathome orders. I think it was inevitable until a vaccine comes. The new restrictions in californias major metro areas forcing bars, hair salons and movie theaters to close. Restaurants are limited to takeout and delivery only and gatherings of people from different households are prohibited. This is the greatest threat to life in los angeles that we have ever faced. Reporter across california nearly one in ten coronavirus tests is now coming back positive. Intensive Care Capacity at hospitals dropped below 15 this weekend, but in some counties defiance from law enforcement. Sheriffs in riverside, San Bernardino and orange counties are refusing to enforce the lockdowns. These closures and stayathome orders are flat out ridiculous. The metrics used for closures are unbelievably faulty and are not representative of true numbers and are disastrous for riverside county. Reporter a Restaurant Owner outsnide l. A. Expressing anger after her outdoor patio was shut down while a film crew was able to set up outdoor tables nearby. Im losing everything. Everything i own is being taken away from me. Look at this. Tell me that this is dangerous but right next to me is a slap in my face, thats safe. Reporter for film crews to shoot, they must follow strict guidelines on screening and testing unlike restaurants where testing was not a requirement. Meanwhile, california is not alone. Across the country more than 101,000 people are in the hospital with the virus, nearly twice as many as a month ago. Abc news getting a look inside this Field Hospital in worcester, massachusetts, where doctors say theyre better prepared this time. As far as we know, this is the first covid Field Hospital thats had to reopen from the spring first surge. Its a little bit easier this time in the sense that we know how to set things up. Were learned a few things. Reporter and now an urgent warning for holiday shoppers. The cdc recommends avoiding instore shopping and opting for Curbside Pickup instead. If you must go inside, they say go off hours. Only touch what you plan to buy and use touchless payment systems. So when youre sort of shopping in a store, you should look at all opportunities that reduce the amount of contact that you have with another individual, so waiting in a line in close proximity to someone else could be problematic. But this morning hope is on the horizon. Pfizers vaccine is being delivered to british hospitals today. Vaccinations begin there tomorrow. The vaccine could get the green light here in the u. S. After this thursdays fda hearing. If things are on track, the Advisory Committee goes well, i believe we could see fda authorization within days. But its going to go according to fdas Gold Standard process, and im going to make sure it does. On december 17th the fda will hold another hearing, this time on whether to authorize modernas vaccine. In transition news president elect joe biden is expected to nominate California Attorney general Javier Becerra as his secretary of health and human services. If confirmed, he would be the first latino in the position. Becerra served 12 terms in congress. As californias attorney general he fought to protect obamacare. More now on President Trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, testing positive for covid. Several questions remain including exactly when he was infected. The news is forcing lawmakers in one state to shut down their offices. Abcs alex presha has the latest from washington. Alex, good morning. Reporter kenneth, good morning to you. Giuliani is providing an update on his condition hours after President Trump broke the news which is creating ripple effects across the country. This morning Rudy Giuliani revealing hes getting great care and feeling good while hospitalized with covid. Giulianis been leading the president s legal battles to overturn the election traveling last week to arizona, michigan and georgia where he appeared mostly maskless at legislative meetings. You are the final arbiter of who the electors should be and whether the process is fair or not. Reporter the Trump Campaign saying giuliani tested negative before traveling to each state, and he did not experience any symptoms or test positive for covid19 until more than 48 hours after his return. But arizonas legislature is not taking any chances closing this week after at least 13 lawmakers came in close contact with giuliani. On twitter trump writing, get better soon, rudy, we will carry on. Weve never lost an election. Were winning this election. Reporter over the weekend in georgia trump pushed his baseless Election Fraud claims while rallying support for two Senate Republicans fighting to win runoffs next month that will determine which Party Controls the senate. It comes as trump pressures the states republican Governor Brian Kemp to order a special session for the purpose of overturning the results of the president ial election, which joe biden won. Your governor could stop it very easily if he knew what the hell he was doing. Reporter sunday night kemp released a statement declaring that a special session in order to select a separate slate of president ial electors is not an option that is allowed under state or federal law. In the meantime, most candidates in those two Georgia Senate races were on the debate stage last night. Incumbent republican Kelly Loeffler declined to say whether trump lost the election when asked by her opponent. My question is pretty simple. Yes or no, senator loeffler, did donald trump lose a recent president ial election . You know, President Trump has every right to use every Legal Recourse available. Reporter in the other race democrat jon ossoff debated an empty podium because incumbent Republican David Perdue refused to participate. Meanwhile, the website axios reports that President Trump is not planning to attend joe bidens inauguration next month. Instead hes planning a rally in florida. Kenneth and mona. We will see in 44 days. Alex presha, thank you. A new report offers the most plausible explanation yet for an illness that sickened u. S. Diplomats in cuba. A Government Commission report finds the illness that affected more than 40 americans at the u. S. Embassy in havana was likely due to microwave radiation from a malicious attack. The state Department Says the investigation continues. In germany authorities have successfully dismantled a massive world war ii bomb. The 1,100pound weapon was found at a construction site in frankfort. 13,000 residents had to evacuate. Police in nashville searching for clues after the murder of a young icu nurse. 26yearold Caitlyn Kaufman was shot and killed on the highway last week while driving to work. Kaufmans family is baffled that anyone would want to hurt her. I just felt like our lives were shattered from that point on, like my heart just sank. Its a nightmare. Reporter kaufman is the third nurse at that same hospital to be killed since 2016. No connections have been made. Police say theyre chasing down leads from multiple tips. Turning now to the weather, much of maine is still without power after this weekends noreaster. More than 80,000 customers remain without electricity. At one point a quarter of the state lost power. Time now for a look at your monday forecast. The northeast wakes up this morning with windchills at midwinter levels. Those temperatures mean the snow that fell over the weekend wont be melting until midweek. Meanwhile. In california high wind and fire warnings are posted in the northern and southern parts of the state. The fire threat is critical in Southern California with winds gusting up to 60 Miles Per Hour today. Los angeles reaches 74 degrees today. Low 50s in the pacific northwest. Around 40 near the great lakes. 75 in miami. 57 in albuquerque. Coming up, the explosive scene as fire engulfs a fireworks factory. Also ahead, new details about the mysterious death of zappos cofounder tony hsieh. What he was planning to do hours before his death. And a woman is skiing when she suddenly falls into a volcano vent. She describes her terrifying ordeal next. Trelegy for copd. Birds flyin high, you know how i feel. Breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. Its a new dawn. If youve been taking copd sitting down, its time to make a stand. Start a new day with trelegy. No oncedaily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. 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We turn now to the Daring Rescue on mt. Mood in oregon. A woman who was skiing suddenly went plunging down a vent inside the volcano, and now shes describing the terrifying ordeal and how she was rescued. Heres abcs megan tevrizian. Reporter this morning, an oregon woman, is sharing her terrifying experience after falling down a snowcovered volcanic hole on mt. Hood. Its like someone pulling a chair out from underneath you as youre trying to sit down, so the ground, i had that sensation of falling. Reporter 32yearold Caroline Sundbaum was climbing at an elevation above 11,000 feet when she stopped to rest unknowingly sitting on top of a volcano vent known as a fumarole. I fell about five feet onto the surface of the mountain so under the snow, landed on my shoulder and then slid another five to ten feet kind of down the side of the mountain in really this sort of cavelike structure. Reporter the air in that cavelike structure can be toxic and potentially deadly. Heat, like heat on my hand, which was concerning. Reporter confused and frightened, sundbaum was stuck at the bottom of the fumarole for several minutes but she says her dislocated shoulder popped back into place giving her a sense of relief. Once my shoulder was working again, then i was going to be able to get myself out of there. Reporter a nearby climber noticed she had disappeared and then found the hole where she had been sitting. That climber calling 911 and then lowering a rope down into the fumarole. Sundbaum was able to secure herself to the rope and was hoisted to safety. Fumaroles can easily be hidden by snow. Luckily sundbaum is okay apart from hurting her shoulder. Kenneth, mona. Just incredible. Thank you. And coming up, the deadly accident at a mini golf course. Also ahead, the High School Student fighting back after being suspended for wearing nail polish. Pies you can take first. One that could mean. A chance to live longer. 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Wilkinson set up a petition that has thousands of signatures. The district will review the decision. Turning back to the coronavirus, more states are imposing shutdowns. Meanwhile, all eyes are on britain where the Covid Vaccine is ariving in hospitals. Earlier i spoke with dr. Imran ali. Dr. Ali, first lets start with what are you seeing right now . What are your biggest concerns . Well, kenneth, im seeing the rate of infections, and we are really are i mean, this is more than weve ever seen before. If you look back at the early days of the pandemic, it took about 100 days to reach 1 million infections. Now were seeing 1 million infections in the span of only five days. Im really concerned about not only bed capacity but hospital staff are very exhausted, and thats whats really going to make it or break it for a lot of people if hospitals can maintain their staff to be able to care for all these patients. We expect it will be a big week. What are you expecting to hear this week from the fda meeting on the Covid Vaccine and whether to approve emergency use authorization . Once they provide that green light, operation warp speed will, you know, deploy about 6. 4 million vaccines within 24 hours. Were expecting 3 million vaccines to go out initially with 3 million additional vaccines 21 days later for that second doze because, remember, its a twodose vaccine. Much of california, as you know, is entering another shutdown this morning. There appears to be more pushback as businesses struggle to survive. How do you respond to people who argue that dining outside or going to a business where social distancing is enforced is a right and anyone concerned about the virus can stay home . Its important that people understand that this virus doesnt care. It needs a host. 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Whoohoo great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. Checking the top stories, the president s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, says hes, quote, recovering quickly from the coronavirus while being treated at a washington hospital. The Arizona Legislature is closing this week because of giulianis recent visit. Hes been traveling the country trying to overturn the election. Attorney general william barr is reportedly considering stepping down before President Trump leaves office. Barr recently said the Justice Department found no evidence of widespread Election Fraud, and trump last week refused to say whether he still has confidence in barr. Today is pearl harbor remembrance day. 79 years ago more than 2,400 americans died in the attack, which brought the u. S. Into world war ii. Todays weather, a storm system moves into the pacific northwest. Strong winds in california will push stubborn wildfires. Sunny across the middle of the country. Showers in the carolinas. And finally, we say goodbye to one of tvs most endearing characters. Abcs Chris Connelly looks at the life of david lander, laverne shirley. And there is no reason on earth why prince charming cannot walk through our front door. Hello. Who in sitcom history has gotten more laughs from a single word . As squiggy, the spitcurled goof on laverne shirley, actor david lander made millions laugh. Squig, squig, are you okay . Ive been singed, len. Reporter alongside Michael Mckean as lenny, landers andrew squigman was the archetype as in the Musical Group lenny and the squigtones, powered by squiggys falsetto. This song is called night after night, and its about two nights in a row. Reporter lander and mike mckean had first worked up the characters in college at Carnegie Mellon before coming to primetime tv. Whoa whoa lookie, lookie here. Reporter lander was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1984, choosing to keep it secret for more than a decade for fear it would end his career as he told gmas charles gibson. I would assume once they found out i had ms, they would, oh, you know, lets sit down and talk, and heres why i cant hire you. So i was very much insecure and afraid. Reporter instead this avid baseball fan would find work in animated projects from who framed roger rabbit . To disneys goldie bear. But squiggy would be his most beloved character. Whatever happens, lander wrote in his 1989 memoir, ms cant take it all. I will always have my heart and soul, my wit and wisdom. Those words a graceful farewell from the actor who always knew how to say hello. Hello. A writer turned actor there. Thats whats making news in right now on america this morning, Rudy Giuliani tests positive for covid19. The fallout this morning after giuliani traveled the country meeting with lawmakers in several states making legal arguments for the president. What were learning about his condition. Plus, getting ready for the vaccine. The Trump Administration with a new promise when it comes to the time line. Georgia on his mind. President trump suffering a new setback late sunday as he tries to overturn the election results. This as the candidates who will determine control of the u. S. Senate face off on the debate stage. Why one podium was left vacant. The search for answers this morning after a young icu nurse is shot and killed in her car while driving to work. How police are hoping to find who is responsible. Trapped in a volcano