1,000 cases in ten days and a new peak in hospitalizations. Tonight San Francisco is taking new steps to prepare for worstcase scenarios. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. City Health Director dr. Grant colfax says the virus is moving fast and more people are getting seriously ill. 107 coronavirus patients are currently hospitalized, the highest number since the pandemic began. 25 of those are in intensive care. The city is opening a new hospital site that would be used to accommodate noncovid patients if necessary. We are creating a care site in the presidio that we hope we will not need. This site is designated for hospitalized patients without covid19 who no longer need acute medical care but arent quite ready to go home. The facility will eventually have the capacity for 93 patients. Dr. Colfax really emphasized today that we need to commit and recommit to being careful. Part of doing that is Wearing Masks. But what about face shields or eye gogg
No. Absolutely not. What is the target you have set for your department for call back time . We are trying to get out of the business of doing callbacks and that is why we are upgrading the call center so we can have fully trained staff from eight a clock to eight a clock. Reporter she wouldnt say when exactly that would come online and meanwhile this week the state saw more than 470,000 new claims. We see a combination of the initial furloughs now turning into layoffs given the continuation of the lockdowns and we also see businesses that have tried to hang on closing and not only closing but closing permanently. If i was not married, i dont know what i would be doing. I would be homeless. The governor is saying he will send a strike team to help the massive backlog. When will that happened . Reporter we are told within 45 days, that is when his team is expected to deliver recommendations and solutions to the ed and the edd has said that while it has hired 5000 new people, 2500 have c
Is double checking your Voter Registration before the largest absentee ballot effort in history in the middle of a global pandemic. David levine is a constitutional law professor at uc hastings and says covid19 should not stop free and fair elections. If we managed to have elections in the civil war and we managed to have them during the panamerican war and the pandemic of 1918 and world war i into and we managed to have elections despite crises. Reporter in Contra Costa County were before the pandemic 75 of the ballots were absentee, the Registrars Office has expanded their efforts. After the election of 2018 we up graded all of our mail handing equipment and scanners and sorters. Reporter they are reaching out to 150 voters who have not requested absentee ballots to double check their registration as well and they also implemented a workaround for potential posted delays and 45 of these drop boxes around the county. You dont need to worry about whatever the transit time is. They do r
Investigate a suspicious fire is a hate crime and what the department had to say just minutes ago. The fire watch right now. Cal fireof the city in los ange county. The sun broke out about 2 00 this afternoon in a National Forest and it has already destroyed more than 240 acres. So far, no containment and some cabins and campgrounds in the area have been evacuated. Tonight most of Southern California dealing with warm dry weather. Also right now and news at 7 00, streaming in the bay area, President Trump tonight defending his suggestion that the election be delayed. He is worried about the security of mailin voting. Tonight, bay area Election Officials say they are ready for anything. Good evening. We are live in lafayette for us tonight. Election Officials Say here in the bay area that they are prepared to handle a very smooth very large ab continnt c november. They say they are prepared that they can handle the volume even if it is greater than they expect. Reporter every registered
5 30 and one of San Franciscos hardest hit neighborhoods for the coronavirus cases finally gets its own testing site and how some determined neighbors made it happen. The historic clip house restaurant is one of many businesses suffering in the pandemic and now it is headed to court to get its Insurance Company to pay up. Hundreds of homeless seniors are off the streets of the bay area and into trailers the summer. Good evening. The state announced back in january that it would donate the trailers that are usually on standby for emergencies to help house the homeless. In our original series project home, we take a look at how the experiment is working. I think it is beautiful. It is a good thing. Reporter what a difference a few months can make and when he first caught up with them they were living in a tent on 77th street and had lost. A promise from a Homelessness Agency to place them in a mobile home had fizzled out and then a few months ago a different social worker came by. They c