Dr. Fauci and Governor Newsom. Covid19 is not done with california. The golden state tonight is dealing with a surge in both cases and hospitalizations. Now some are wondering how difficult its going to be to flatten that curve again. Nbc bay areas Terry Mcsweeney has more. Reporter Governor Newsom sounding the alarm today. In the past two weeks, covid19 hospitalizations are up 43 . Icu admissions up 37 . If that doesnt change soon, the governor is promising stricter actions statewide. Tomorrow well be making some additional announcements on efforts to use that dimmer switch that weve referred to and begin to toggle back on our stayathome order. Dr. George rutherford, professor of epidemiology at uc San Francisco says several factors are at play here in the bay area. The 1,000 infected prisoners at san quentin, an increase in infections at retirement homes, people letting down their guard during the recent reopenings, and theres this ongoing outbreak in the latinx communities. Reporter
Is not yet known, but it does appear that fire was located in the basement of the church. No one was inside the church at the time of the fire. California senator Kamala Harris joined protesters at Lafayette Park in washington, dc. She wore a Face Covering and cap and on a twitter post senator harrison said people are in pain and we must listen. There have been violent protests across southern california. It was a fourth consecutive day of violence and vandalism in los angeles county. California National Guard members were on the streets of los angeles after the mayor called a state of emergency. We must not allow any who feast off of chaos, who hunger for division, who want to replace peaceful protest with images of a nation coming apart. We must not let them win. Several Los Angeles Police Department Patrol cars were damaged and more than 500 people were arrested during the last two days. About 25 miles away in long beach a cvs store was broken into and set on fire from the inside. T
Through the day look how warm. Noontime, 70s. 70s at the beaches today. Its a warmer afternoon for everyone. Ens la inner east bay. Youre very hot, in the 90s. But more hot weather to talk about the seven day outlining. Abc 7 is committed to building a better bay area. We focus on transportation. Like b. A. R. T. One of the biggest issues is fare he evasion. B. A. R. T. Tried several gates with mixed results. Next week the b. A. R. T. Board of directors will vote on gate designs. Luz pena spoke to riders for reaction. Some use the clipper card others jump the gate. Fare evasions are part of the reason the they will vote. I believe we had 89 percent of the people surveyed believed it was important to reduce fare evasion. Board director doesh allen is referring to a Online Survey conducted with riders the biggest concern. Too many people cheating the system. We walked around the embarcadero b. A. R. T. Station and asked what they thought about the options. I dont like any of them. As lon
Survivors say this is a positive step. For the past two years we have been exposing the misconduct at this allgirls school. Nbc bay areas ian cull joins us. This dates back decades, right . Reporter it does, raj. It involves any accusation thats been made. Its the first time the school has hired an outside investigator. A new president started there in july and says after hearing the stories, now is the time. Its something that i and thousands of Community Members have been asking for years now. Reporter she is a former high school student. She told us before of past allegations, that her spanish teacher groped her and showed her pornographic material. Lee han wasnt the only one and the teacher wasnt the first to be accused. Now, after mounting pressure, the school is apologizing. It represented the first real apology that the other survivors and i and the entire community have received. Reporter the new president , holly elkins, wrote this letter to the School Community saying, presen
Highlight some of the recent actions hes taken for i get it off to a housing champion with us weve been dealing with a number of changes related to our Housing Element and hes pushed back almost every turn. Weve had legislation up here such as a recent fire Code Amendment by supervisor chan and if a champion that will make that hard to build homes in january and the City Attorney to look at whether or not we are unfairly targeted in San Francisco and making the same statement that senator wiener said recent actions and well list get back to those with we have champions on the board of supervisors looking at for us gracious enough to join us supervisor dorsey to get the Housing Element in place im sorry to bring him all 2340u9 to say a few words. Thank you a supervisor clapping. thank you, jan to a member of the board of supervisors im not sure there Small Business more of us itch of my career clapping. the two years in the Police Department that gets the holiness but talk about the 14