Tonight. We begin this evening with a bay area teen that may be closing in on a potential treatment for covid19. It relies on our own immune systems, our own bodys ability to fight off infegs when invaded by a virus. Now a South San Francisco doctor says his work is taking the next step. Abc7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the story. In the race to find a cure for covid19, theres new hope from bay area scientists who have been working around the clock. Good to have big dreams, big dreams got us to the moon. Reporter you might recognize dr. Jacob glenville from the Netflix Docuseries pandemic. Hes the president and ceo of distributed bio, which is developing an antibody therapeutic to treat the Novel Coronavirus. If your loved one has to go to the hospital. We give them the therapy and instead of getting more sick, they get better rapidly and go home. The minute we have an antibody therapy we can end the crisis. Three independent laboratories including one at stanford yufr Stanford Univ
Stephanie sierra has been tracking this for weeks and she joins us with the latest. Stephanie . Congress has single out quantum corporation, a Data Storage Company based in san jose for refusing to return 10 million in federal funding. And as of today, its not looking likely that will happen. If there is anybody out there that misuses this program, we will find you. This is House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy nearly a month ago. The congressman urging big Public Companies to return federal funding intended for small businesses. You will not want the reputation that you will soon get if you take advantage. But it appears that warning doesnt cushion quantum. The data storage giant someone of five u. S. Companies singled out by a congressional select subcommittee that quantum return funds immediately and clearly pointed out the company that has a market value over 150 million doesnt meet the qualifications to be eligible for the help. It is possible that they will get in trouble. I spoke
Requirements at a june 2nd meeting. Theyre punting on that latter part there. Reporting live this morning, julian glover, abc7 news. Happenng today, officials in Santa Clara County will announce that free covid19 testing is available for all residents. The tests will be administered in East San Jose and the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Screening and testing will be operated by baseline. Santa clara county rescheduled the 11 30 press conference to make the announcement. Led to a dispute between the oakland as and its coliseum landlord. The bay area is reporting that the team is holding back on a 1. 2 million rent payment to the coliseum authority. The as say they need a better understanding of when the coliseum will be available for its use. Governor newsom suggests that prosports could be back next month. Both sides are talking. The u. S. Justice department is warning Governor Newsom, californias restrictions on churches may violate religious freedoms. The Department Says the states
Suns up here shortly before 6 00 a. M. And find a warmer and brighter afternoon compared to yesterday. Low 60s along the coast and around the bay and inland, feel much warmer in the 70s. Even warmer weather is coming in for the upcoming holiday weekend. Well detail that. Big news out of the north bay. Napa county just got the green light to move further into phase two. That means sit down restaurants, shopping malls and other businesses can now reopen. Our effort to build a better bay area focuses on four key things the reopening of the counties is a key part of the bay area recovery. Lets go to Amy Hollyfield with what we can expect today. Amy . Hi, reggie. They just got this approval at 6 00 last night. Restaurants can now reopen here in napa county. You can just imagine the food orders Restaurant Owners are placing right now. The county meets all of the states requirements to open early. This is before the rest of the state. Wineries and their tasting rooms cannot reopen. County off
Couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Displefer day, before we turn to the serious stories, we like to look at the stories that put the us in coronavirus, in our ongoing segment, a ray of sunshine. First up, thanks to this pandemic, government officials are highly strung. They have to keep people indoors, they have to keep hospitals running, and they have to take all their bribes over venmo, which is really tough, because you have to write in the memo what the money is for. Well, this week in kentucky, the governor was busy trying to stop unemployment scams, and in the process, he made an unlikely discovery. Unfortunately, its going to take a little bit of time on these, because a couple of bad apples can make this challenge that much more difficult. For instance, we had somebody apply for unemployment for tupac shakur here in kentucky. And that person probably thought they were being funny. I didnt know and its my fault that we have a