Tonight people gathered in San Francisco to honor her kron fours gayle ong was there and she joins us now with more on what this evening was like gayle. And again at least 200 people showed up in the castro tonight we want to go to that video taken earlier this vigil started around 7 oclock this evening. It was planned minutes. After the news of her passing this is on the corner of the market people supporters honoring her as a fighter for gender equality and having a powerful voice in the liberal wing of the Supreme Court. Organizers say set this up because they want to remember her legacy and they wanted this to be a time for everyone to come together not only to honor her life but to honor and her legacy and of course doing the work going forward. Justice ginsburg, the first jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court on the eve and she died on the eve of russia shot there was a prayer with the rabbi before the group marched down castro. Over to harvey milks camera store and heres wh
So hard for us model. A role model for all of us. She was our our beacon for womens rights. And while the political world wrestles with what this means for the november election americans are remembering the real life implant impact of Justice Ginsburg had on all of our lives. And at a time when businesses across the bay area are struggling program there in oakland steps up to a lot of businesses with a little release. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Good morning. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news on this saturday, September Martin gonzalez. Well have a lot more on all of those stories in just a moment, but we want to start with a check of the forecast from days foreign dave. After the Welcome Break of a couple of days, were back to a spare the air alert for the bay area. Yeah, good morning morning, good morning, everybody and its not total though, but it does cover good chunk of the bay area. We have some fog actually interesting enough, b
Staying safe. A crisis of unprecedented proportion the novel corona pandemic already infected 3 million and killed over 100,000 americans. The scale is staggering, efforts to produce a lifesaving vaccine, not all americans have been impacted equally. Communities of color are not only more likely to be infected by the covid19 but more likely to be killed by the virus. In my home state of new jersey africanamericans face up to covid19 fatalities. This trend was observed not only in new jersey, data from the cdc shows that africanamericans, 3 times more likely to be infected and twice as likely to die from covid19 than white populations. The administrations response to the outbreak has been an utter failure on a multitude of levels. Nowhere is this more acute than in its neglect of Minority Health. Since the onset of the outbreak it has been clear that communities of color are disproportionately impacted. However the impact has been up secured by critical data. Even with this knowledge th
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The number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And doctor Francis Collins who once led the human genome project and now leaves the National Institutes of health needs a competitive shark tank enterprise at the nih to discover new ways to create tens of millions of quick and extensive diagnostictests. Covid19 plans should last for at least a year. The government is pursuing vaccines at what it calls s work speed a, faster than weve ever done that before but no one expects a vaccine this august. The second half of the school year schools should be able to provide more tests, more treatments, better Contact Tracing and hopefully we should begin to have vaccines. It will likely be the fall of 2021 though before we begin toapproach normal. There are several reasons schools have an advantage in weproviding a safe environment for students and for faculty. One younger people have been less hurt by covid19 and older people. Although doctor county told our committee we sh