Tagged with racist graffiti. Police to the vandalism is being investigated as a hate crime. We are proud americans. America took us in and we believe in the American Dream and american ideals. And highest among them is tolerance for peoples, love for all creeds and colors. We defend that. An emotional evening at that school in San Francisco. Thank you for joining us. Members of the Armenian Community told us they are shocked after seeing those hateful and hurtful messages. Now that school is located on brotherhood way near the lake merced and San Francisco state. Live coverage with more on the investigation and reaction from across the state. Reporter the school does have security cameras. The District Attorney tells me hes working with police on the investigation. The rally tonight brought Families Together at the school and they said they will not be intimidated by this act of hate. As i came today at 8 00 this morning i saw the graffiti on the walls. I was shocked, i was appalled. R
Shut down now and start over. Help is on the way to stressed out workers on the front lines of this pandemic. Free Mental Health counseling available to them. In San Francisco, this school was vandalized overnight. Turning hate into an opportunity for unity. Referring today, warmer for the weekend. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Tonight the numbers tell the story of the coronavirus pandemic. Cases rising in 40 states. 17 ds by augus. Ing thereould in califni for the second day in a row, we reported a record daily number of deaths. Today it was 159, two more than yesterday with more than 8,000 deaths total. The state has more than 435,000 cases and a test positivity average of 7. 9 . Now some Health Experts and Decision Makers say the only way out of this is to shut down again and start over. Abc 7 News Reporter has the story. Reporter more than 150 Health Experts across the u. S. Say it is time to hit t
Say it is time to hit the reset button. They have signed an open letter to lawmakers. I believe everybody that signed that endorses it and sees this crisis for what it is, a crisis. Thats not gotten any better. Its only gotten worse. Reporter the message, shut it down and start over. The warning, if you dont take these actions, the consequences will be measured in widespread suffering and death. He says america struggle to contain the virus is evident on the world stage. We have seen many countries act swiftly and efficiently to quash the pandemic, and theyre reopening and theyre doing fine. We didnt. Reporter a proposal was introduced to require residents to once again shelter in place, doing so until the rate of positive tests over two weeks dips below 2 . Our objective is to kill this virus. A shelter in place is the medicine we need to take. Reporter san jose, named one of 12 cities being tracked by the feds as covid19 cases rise. County executive addressing what it would take to s
The governor addressed the rise go concerns. Liz joins us with more. Liz . We were saying this news is ill nenl and today, there was concern for this number of cases but also, to say the state is ramping up ppe and we are prermd. Reporter inside the warehouse, Governor Newsom announced it. California has overtaken new york for the most cases in the country. Now reaching north of 400,000 positive cases that weve collected here in the state of california. Reporter if california were a country, we would rank fifth in the world for most number of cases. Eye popping, yes. But there is this important nuance. The highest in the nation. Not highest per capita, not highest in that respectful nonetheless, a sober reminder of why we are taking things as seriously as we are. Emover the past 24 hours, california has had 12,807 new positive cases. A record in the state for the most number of cases in one day. The statewide thats on it rate continues to climb. The average now 7. 6. And deaths are ris
Vaccine from a concept to a phase one trial. This took less than six weeks. Reporter phase two trails are under way and phase three, which will require 30,000 participants, to test safety and efficacy, will begin july 27. A phase one volunteer, neil browning, who lives in seattle, was one of the first people in the world to get the vaccine. Its been a few months since your last dose. How have you been feeling . Completely normal. The only real side effect was each morning after each of the two injections, my upper arm was sore. Reporter he received the lwest of three possible vaccine doses during the trial. Saying that all 45 had all three dosage levels had the same response is like a grand slam. It knocks it out of the park. 100 efficacy is something you want but rarely get in Something Like this. What percentage of the population would need to be de immunitisome 60, 70 . Reporter they are on track to deliver 500 million doses every year, beginning in 2021. Dr. Anthony fauci is cautio