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80s. It was a day that the relatives of the victims have been waiting for for years. He admitted he was guilty of 13 killings and 62 rapes. We have coverage with why he decided to plead guilty. Reporter one by one Joseph Deangelo pleaded guilty to 13 counts of murder and 13 other crimes and admitting to other uncharged offenses. His attorneys cut the deal to avoid the death penalty. Display at this time is in the best interest of the state of california. The covid19 pandemic is causing delays in the courts. They wanted to make sure the victims and their families saw the Golden State Killer brought to justice. Many of these people are in their 80s and 90s. They may not be with us at the time of jury trial. People packed into a makeshift courtroom and prosecutors provided shocking new details. Did attend and for sherry onto her stomach and bad. He tied her wrists together. Reporter he was sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. The scope of his crime spree simply staggering. The now admitted was a former Police Officer. His reign of terror took place through the 70s and 80s before the case went cold. The original night stalker and east area blacklivesmatter , each time he escaped slipping away silently into the night leading communities terrified. Investigators got a stunning break in the case. They submitted a dna sample into an opel source genetic database. That led to dangelo and help pioneer the technique of investigative genetic genealogy. Ktvu fox2 news. Henry lee press in sacramento today for that hearing. He has reaction from the victims families. Survivors and the families of victims of the Golden State Killer. His day of reckoning have finally come after more than four decades. It was unfortunate what he did to this town. It was at time of sheer terror. Reporter she was his youngest victim when he her in 1977. She said the Larger Community was tormented by the predator. I think that all of sacramento was a victim of this man. We couldnt even leave a window open. Reporter while, he pleaded guilty in a makeshift courtroom to allow for social distancing. He earned a criminal justice degree in 1972 several years before history began. Many relatives wept and some clapped and cheered. Another yelled powered at him. Those who survived his attacks have found strength in numbers. A lot of the victims have formed strong bonds and have been supporting each other. My mom started a facebook group. Reporter survivors and fox2 news. If you would like to learn more about todays guilty plea by Joseph Deangelo, you can find it on the ktvu app. And now to the coronavirus. The virus is spreading at an alarming rate across the state. The rate of positive results is at 5. 5 up from 4. 4 two weeks ago. There are more than 216,000 coronavirus cases and more than 59 people have died. In the bay area there are 24,000 cases and 570 deaths. That is a 45 increase in positive cases and just the past seven days. The governor has more counties on his watchlist. Californias numbers continue to rise prompting the governors to toggle back reopening. The states Positivity Rate rose to 5. 5 . The governor says more testing is not the only reason. We do not like the trend line. That is why this mandatory mask requirement is in effect and why we are using this to start to pull back. He ordered the closure of bars and seven counties and recommended the action in contra costa and santa clara counties. You are in kabul bar and moving around. You are close to other people. Over the past two weeks hospitalizations have increased 49 . Still, he stressed it capacity. The numbers are going up but our ability to manage and absorb is significant. Reporter the governor pointed to family gatherings, prison populations and people letting their guard down. Four more counties have been added to the states watchlist. 72 represented in 19 counties that have target engagement with our state Health Officials. Reporter the state will be stepping up enforcement with 2. 5 billion in relief funding contingent on counties complying to guidelines. The state will intervene if needed. Even hinting more action could be on the way. Certainly if we do not see a mitigation we will consider doing more. The governor stress family gatherings as a point of concern. He said he will have more to say on that in the days to come. Ktvu, fox2 news extract infections at san quentin continue to soar with nearly 1 3 of the prison population now testing positive for the coronavirus. Officials say there are 1016 active cases. That includes 89 staff members. The outbreak began after 121 inmates were transferred from Southern California last month. Prisoner advocates have been calling for older and medically vulnerable and base. Three thermometers are available to students and their families. 8800s my thermometers will be handed out in front of cvs stores. They connect to a phone app and you can track your temperature over one week or one month to monitor your health. Another feature on the app is you can see spikes or hotspots of temperatures in your area. Having a thermometer and regular temperature checks is probably a reality. Making sure every hospital has the technology to do that will be crucial. The thermometers are available to the families of Public School students is on the supplies last. Guilliot is based in foster city and a five day treatment will cost 2340 or 3120 for private insurance in the united states. They will charge for the dog next month. They had been donating doses to the government. It can help a patient get well quickly. A bay area considers redirecting police funds. How much berkeleys mayor says he can cut. What Cirque Du Soleil is saying about his fate after declaring bankruptcy. A red flag warning will be dropped in the next hour for the north lakehills. We will talk about a warm up as we move through the five day forecast. By illegal fireworks compose more of the danger this year. A look at the monday evening commute. There is not much of a commute at all. Usually it would be packed with people heading home. As you can see, very few cars on the road tonight. Struck protesters gathered to demand two Antioch Police officers be fired. One officer was with the San Francisco Police Department and was involved in the deadly shooting a homeless man who lunched at officers with a knife. The shooting was determined to be justified. He previously worked with Antioch Police. The other officer posted on his personal Facebook Page that it will be quote 100 justified for an officer to stop a protester who flipped off police. We are here at city hall and hoping that they will hear us now and actually take some action. We have been getting a lot of run around. We are investigating and working on it. We are looking into it. We have not had any action. The family of the man killed by the officer was at the protest. The District Attorney at the time declined to file charges after determining that he acted within the law. We reached out to Antioch Police but did not hear back. The Marah Berkeley is proposing cuts to his cities Police Department budget. He introduced budget amendments for the next fiscal year including more than 9 million in cuts which is 12 of the Police Agencies annual operating budget. The city council is considering whether to shift resources away from police. The council is meeting next month to go over the options. Cirque du soleil announced it filed bankruptcy protection. They plan to present the Restructuring Plan in court tomorrow. They stopped production in march including six in las vegas due to the pandemic. 95 of the workforce was laid off. They plan to rehire a majority of their employees once operations are allowed to resume. A rollover crash claimed the life of young kurt. He was 27 years old. This is a picture of him from his twitter account. The Coroners Office says he lived in antioch. His car was traveling at a high rate of speed early this morning when the flip it over several times. He was thrown from the car. Investigators say he was not wearing a seat belt. They have not determine if drugs or alcohol played a role in the crash. A man was found dead after being found missing. He was a professional indoor soccer player. The Coroners Office says the 29yearold fell into the water from a boat on friday while celebrating his 29th birthday with friends. He played for the ontario fury. Fire Officials Say nearly 40 homes have been destroyed in a wind driven wildfire. The fire started last night and spread quickly in a town east of the salton sea. 130 people were displaced. The red cross is helping those people to find places to stay. The area is described as a crime scene. Officials have not provided any more details. The fourth of july brings wildfire worries with that. Tom looks into where those explosives are coming from. Last nights oakland fire was due to a legal fireworks in a city that forbids them as is the case almost everywhere. In the bay area only five of nine counties allow safe and sane fireworks and only in 12 towns. They may be sold between june 28 and july 6 only. 18 fireworks stands stand to support local youth groups. All of the fires that are being created, all of the fireworks have been 99 of them have been illegal fireworks. Only san bruno allows them. And Alameda County dublin, newark and union city allow safe and sane fireworks. Santa clara county only gilroy. Solano county only dixon, rio vista and suisun city. Sonoma county, have locate them. So where do the illegal fireworks come from. Dennis is a spokesman for the legal safe and sane fireworks company. Most of the illegal fireworks appear to come to seaports from asia bound by truck to places where they are legal. We will pick up fireworks legal and other states but illegal in california. That container never makes it to the california border. Some go to nevada were cars and trucks bring them back into california. Most of these people know when they can bring it across the border and the smallest if any risk of being caught. We are potential the worse the mission sources for a wildfire. Cal fire reports 2996 fires so far this year which is 1200 more fires and at the same point last year. In any year, fireworks legal and illegal are of factor. They are dry and we are seeing unseasonably infrequent wind certain areas in the state and that is alarming to was. Between 2020 18 injuries declined by almost 56 thanks to better products and better supervision. Ktvu fox2 news. Weve got that red flag warning dovetailing into what toms fire story was about. It basically goes away in the next hour or so. Kind of up around the Sacramento Valley and down towards rubloff as well. The wind, you can see, clears out. Let me back it up. This is tomorrow morning. There is no wind. And in the afternoon, tuesday afternoon you get a sea breeze coming in which will keep the wind a. We should see some fought back tomorrow. We had a little bit of fog this morning. There is the bay bridge moving. The wind outside, 23 mileper hour winds. You can see the arrow and what is that sfo wind . 20 Miles Per Hour out of the west. Haber, 17 miles out of the northwest. San jose, 25 Miles Per Hour. When we come back, we will take a look at the forecast which includes the return of some fog and a more typical southern pattern. We will set ourselves up for a pretty typical ummer attern going into the holiday weekend. I will see you back here. We are learning more about a bombshell report in washington over the weekend. What lawmakers are saying about the alleged bounty by the russians and u. S. Troops in afghanistan. A boycott against facebook is growing. The latest major corporations to pull advertising from the social media giant. The u. S. Supreme court handed a win to an abortion actavis tracking down a louisiana law that limited access to abortions. Require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. John roberts joined with liberal judges in a 54 decision. The president has made the argument he needs to be reelected to continue to shift the court further to the right. He tweeted that people who disappear are the rhinos and stupid people who dont want to see great judges and Supreme Court justices. If you want for president ial candidates because of your desire to overrule you will be disappointed and upset. Todays decision marked the first big Abortion Case of the trump era. Lawmakers are demanding more information about an Intelligence Report that says russia offered taliban fighters taliban payments to kill american troops. The white house says President Trump is not briefed that the New York Times was surfaced in january. It is distressing. This president has a far to close relationship with vladimir putin. Is members of congress arrived back in washington, they are reacting to a report stating a Russian Military Intelligence Unit offered bounties to militants to target u. S. Troops which make of lead to american deaths. U. S. Intelligence officials and special Operations Forces alerted their superiors as early as january. It raises questions about what trump knew and when. What is being done to help deal with the fact that we have u. S. Troops clearly in harms way. The chief of staff, cia director and National Security advisor confirmed neither the president or Vice President have been briefed. There are dissenting opinions with regards to the veracity of what is being reported. The former vice chief of staff says this type of information needs to be brought through proper channels before its released. This goes on every day. And when someone leaks Something Like this to the media the American People are like a deer in the headlights. Rock intelligence which is not been verified is rarely if ever included in president ial daily briefings. Fox news. Stocks are higher on was the beginning back some of their losses from last week. The dow rose 580 points and nasdaq and the smp finished the day of 44. But companies are pulling ads from facebook. Ford, dennys and clorox are among the latest major corporations to join the boycott announcing they will hot at spending on the social media platform. Its part of the stop hate for profit campaign. In response facebook has said it will implement new policies to crack down on hate speech. Coming up, more bay area counties are scaling back the reopening plans. Reaction from Health Officials and businesses that were just about to reopen their doors. Whats new at the giants ballpark. When the team returns to the field later on this week. The American Academy of pediatrics ways in on the return to school. What is best for children and adolescents. Motorcycle riders love the open road. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. The former Northern County Police Officer known as a Golden State Killer pleaded guilty to 13 murders and 62. He faces several terms of life in prison without parole for a string of sadistic crimes in the 70s and 80s. Survivors and relatives were able to attend the hearing today and are glad to see justice finally served. Californias covid19 numbers continue to rise prompting delay or rollback reopening efforts. The positive test rate stands of 5. 5 up from 4. 4 . The governor ordered the closure of bars and seven counties and recommended closure and eight more. A two acre grass fire was caused by illegal fireworks. They are warning people about the danger. Five bay area counties allow safe and sane fireworks. Officials say there will be extra crews and patrol ahead of the fourth of july holiday. You are watching ktvu fox2 news at 6 30. Several bay area counties the plan for businesses to reopen have haulted those plans due to a rise in covert cases. We have reaction from Business Owners in the east and south bay. In downtown many businesses were preparing to open on wednesday. Like this newly posted signs says, that reopening has been delayed. We have to stay safe but its a bummer. I mean, it sucks. The general manager spent the day cleaning gym equipment that will remain unused for now after contra costa delayed the reopening plans that had given Fitness Centers Indoor Dining and bars the green light to resume business. I was so ready to open and see my numbers again and go back to a sense of normalcy. It doesnt seem like that will be happening soon. The move came after the governor recommended contra costa and Santa Clara County keyboards closed because of the rising rate of cases and hospitalizations. The covered hospitalizations jump by 75 and the Positivity Rate increased from 4 to 6 with more young people testing positive. The county says 38 of those testing positive for 40 years or younger and more those are in that age group. Assigned that younger people are playing a major role in driving the increase according to Health Officials. The best thing we can do was to lay low and circle the wagons. Because things are rising. I think its okay to pull back. We dont want to be shut down completely. Bars were already closed indefinitely. At the all wagon saloon in, the general manager says Outdoor Table Service is most important as the indoor bar remains close. We would only have maybe five or six people added if we did 60 protocols. Its pointless to even open the bar right now. The Health Officer says the curve slowed in april but the south bay has seen a worrisome uptick in cases. Dr. Sarah cody will submit a health order in the coming days. We are in code this fight for the long haul. Alameda county announced it is pausing the july 1 plan citing an increase in cases and hospitalizations. The American Academy of pediatrics has come out with the recommendation. They issued a statement saying that schools are fundamental to child and adolescent development and will being. Transmission of the coronavirus by children is uncommon because kids are less likely to get it in the first place. They are urging that all policy considerations should start with the goal of having students physically present in school whenever they can do so safely. The four formorge floyd bef today for their second pretrial hearing. Derek chauvin was the only one who put his knee on George Floyds neck for more than eight minutes. He has been charged with Second Degree murder, thirddegree murder and seconddegree manslaughter. None has entered a plea. Cameras were not allowed in the courtroom today but floyds and spoke outside. We want a conviction and ultimately we want changes. We want Police Brutality looked at more closely which is happening. Is not known if the officers will be tried together or separately. I just said today he will move the trial if they continue speaking out about the case. The fallout from hateful comments posted in mind by san jose Police Officers. Why reddit is taking action against users who support President Trump. Start your day with the power of good. Sirius fallout following racist posts and a group chat involving current and former san jose Police Officers. Jesse gary reports the mayor says any current officers we will have your next update of weather and traffic always less than 10 minutes away on cbs2 news this morning. Made racist statements should be fired. The social turbulence surrounding the sjpd has intensified. Some of the comments that i have seen are absolutely abhorrent. I was shocked by some of them. We told you that these cops exist and you keep saying they dont. The website medium published examples of offensive examples from as recently as may 29 using a private platform. Several former and retired officers expressed views such as lock lives dont matter. Another writes, repurpose the jobs into nooses. These men and women have guns and badges and qualified immunity. So how safe are we . In response to a downtown san jose demonstration that turned violent with one participant injured by police using rubber bullets. I have no sympathy for the idiot that got his i heard. Nine years before this a fellow officer wrote a post reading, we had an ied go off on some volunteers. God is great. Foster was named one of two officers of the year in 2011. You are what you are, privately and publicly. Theres a mindset to groups of them get together and have an attitude like this. Nothing can be done to retired officers with the four officers currently serving are suspended with pay with an ongoing investigation. The chief will move to terminate and the union will not defend any officer that made racist posts. And the da is reviewing his case logs. I dont want any of our prosecutions to be tainted by work that was done or motivated by bias or hatred. The fbi is investigating and similar acts of hate have been met with terminations to refer to black as the nword. The mayor is hopeful that investigations into the officers and police will lead to permanent change. This is a reckoning and we will find a better community. Reddit has pulled the plug on an online group devoted to President Trump. The donald is home to more than 790,000 users to post names, viral videos and supportive messages about the president. The group has consistently broken the rules by allowing people to target and harass others with hate speech. Its a purge of 2000 sub credits and most of the others were either an active or had few users. We will be back with your forecast. It does include a bit of a warm up. Back here in just a minute. Lets go to Heather Holmes with a look at some of the stories were working on for the 7 00 news. Complaints from drivers after a local construction sign was hacked in the east bay. We will tell you about the messages are displayed. The coronavirus mutation. What it can mean for those infected with the fire is. We will have that and a lot more coming up over on ktvu plus extracts the neighbors and an east Bay Community to message of hate and turned it on to a message of hope and compassion. A Beautiful Day today in the bay area. Thats a oakland estuary. We will see you in a moment. Police are investigating the vandalism of a car belonging to a black couple as an act of hate. Rob roth tells us it turned into something positive for the two people targeted. Within just a few hours this couple experienced one of wireless acts of Human Behavior followed by one of the kindest. A day later they are still seeing it. The outpouring, i am almost in tears. They had been part of this will maintain an allwhite neighborhood for years without any problems. They couldnt believe what they woke up to one sunday morning. Their mercedes was spray painted with alm which stands for all life matters which is the mantra for many white races trying to underline the black lives matter. I was hurt and i couldnt believe the community i lived that someone could take part in something so hateful. Police are calling it an incident. It turned into something far more powerful. Photos of the car started circulating and neighbors began pouring out of their homes. They began hoping that alexanders wipe out the hate. Once they saw the pictures they couldnt just do nothing. I was angered beyond belief. I just wanted to combine it until the they are loved and respected. This is not represent what neighbors. It was overwhelming. Seeing the reaction of the family and how grateful they were. The alexanders have no idea how or why they were targeted. Hate never will. It will never win. There is more of as than there are of them. My community showed that. My neighbors showed that. Ferry rates are set to go up this wednesday. The district says money will go to maintaining the bridge and the fairies. It will help the district recoup revenue loss. Traffic is down 40 from pre pandemic levels. The tolls will go up either . 20 or . 35 depending on your method of payment. We are looking into the forecast as we head into tuesday. Today was warmer but still kind of mild and breezy in some places. The red flag warning as you see here in the hills of the northbay and parts of the northeast they will go away in an hour. Fortunately we got away with it and saw nothing significant. Enough that the warning was warranted. We are in san jose and the warning is warranted a lot because of our dry landscape. You can just see how dry everything is. You have been here and you know the drill. We do not see rain all summer basically. Everything will dry out. Things like fireworks can become a real problem. And wind as we had last night is scary as well. Those winds should die down. We will get a High Pressure builtin typical for this time of year. It should bring the fog back which is expected. Temperatures are running accurate of yesterday. 12 degrees warmer. I like this map because it really is about trends. Right now it is trending warmer based on what you saw on the map. The forecast for tomorrow, San Francisco 65. 71 degrees by the end of the day. This model says not much in the way of fog. I suspect there will be a little bit. You can see some fog in the north trying to reform. A nice day tomorrow and it will continue that way. Remember all of the studies are showing about masks and not wearing masks. Just keep doing it. Let the other states that arent doing it, im rooting for them but we dont need to go down that road. Keep doing what you are doing and we will have good momentum here. There is your five day forecast. I know a lot of people are out and about on a big holiday weekend. This is when you have to finish strong and weve got a ways to go. Give yourself some room and where the mask for sure. I will see you back here at 10 00. The giants top draft pick test positive for the coronavirus. We have all of your sports next. 911 is on at 8 00 tonight and 911 lone star follows at 9 00 and then as the 10 00 news and the 11 00 news all right here. When we closed our doors in march, wynn committed instantly to keeping all 15,000 team members onboard. We then focused our fivestar level of service to all who needed it. We made improvements to peoples lives. We strove to be better and we made people happy. This closure may have temporarily taken us out of wynn and encore, but it couldnt take the wynn and encore out of us. And now, we are proud to welcome you back. I will tell you what, we are closing in on the end of june and when july hits, its going to be and onslaught of fi back at Training Camp. They are calling it summer camp instead of spring training part two. Everything will be different. We were able to send our copter up today and take a look at the two places they will be working out toward the end of this week. First of all, the giants will go added with their new look bullpens. Couldnt get too much closer because the fences will be a tad shorter. Dont know exactly when that is will be working out. Im assuming it will be by the weekend. And when i say a different look, i made that from a media perspective. Only 35 media members will be allowed to cover a game. Quotes from players and coaches and managers in such will all be done like Everything Else via zoom. A little bit of a setback for one of the giants prospects. Hunter bishop out of sierra high tested positive last week for the virus. He is asymptomatic and will go into quarantine and could rejoin Training Camp towards the end of it. I suppose this is something that will happen to a lot of players. Only a couple announced today and that is players opting not to play the major league season. A couple of fairly big names are saying they will not participate. That would be Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals got a couple of very good reasons. Hes got a threeweek old baby. And also his mom who is very close with suffers from ms. The other player is the former giant pitcher has been with a number of teams and he said countless factors made his decision possible. And this is a fun little graphic to take a look at. The odds for the world series out of vegas. The number one choice they have the yankees and dodgers. The astros and dodgers and dave will have the same here. The twins, 221 and they think the as could possibly be in it against the dodgers at 24 to 1. What are the chances . 752 one. Theres a huge story this past weekend regarding football and cam newton signing with the new England Patriots after carolina let him go over the past off season. The story has it only one offer and that was from new england. He is relegated to Bargain Basement status. He will get a base salary of one year 4 million with incentives that could be as much as 7 million. Ayed only two games. The 49ers defensive back Richard Sherman chimed in today on that. How many former league mvps have had to sign for league minimum, im asking for a friend. The transcended talent and a less talented quarterback getting 15 to 16 Million Dollars a year. You want to see somebody actually literally flip out on camera cracks in case you missed it over the weekend. In case you missed it here. It almost looks like its fake but it is real. 20 back flips. He did it in 10 seconds. We investigated. No telling what happened after he did that. Thats the sport. We will see you. Play games with you tonight. Oh, no, well still be playing it tonight this game can easily take eight hours. Sweetie, you really thought id want to do this . No. Well, did you tell him that . Yes. Did you say it out loud with words . No. I dont want to spend the whole day playing a board game. Yeah, well, you may change your mind when you hear that this is the new expanded edition which contains a more complete map of middle earth, now including the haradwaith territories. I will literally race you to the car. No, no, no, come on, dont leave. Just try it. No. Were always doing what you guys want. Just once, itd be nice if you did something we wanted. You want to be green . You know, they really have tried to like a lot of the same stuff were into. Yeah, we do game nights and video game nights and we watch movies with directors commentary. Oh, my favorite george lucas can talk all the way through star wars, i say one word and im banished to the kitchen. Yeah, today amy and i are deciding what were all gonna do. You got it, you girls are in charge. Thank you. Sheldon . Fine. Now that were not playing, you can be green. Thank you. And since youre green this time, i can be it next time. All right, lets see. Whats something fun the guys would never take us to do . Oh, i know we could go horseback riding. I actually cant. My hips dont open wider than 22 degrees. I rode a very thin pony once. On the first bump. Just popped right off