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KGO ABC World News Now July 13, 2024

Designers, engineers, science teachers, and students, are rising to the challenge. Heres abcs devin dwyer. Reporter its the sound of American Ingenuity in a time of crisis. A Cottage Industry of 3d printing teachers and teenagers gaining steam to fight covid19. From louisiana i heard people are doing their part. Its time to do mine. Reporter to montana. Over here we have the bank of 3d printers. Reporter entire families turning their basements and garages into production lines for that personal protective equipment now in short supply. This is our lab, 3d printing lab that we put in our garage for the time being. Reporter colorado seventh grader amelia brown and father matt giving us an inside look at their operation. 3d printers making plastic headbands for face shields, one per hour, around the clock. This is one thats being printed. The printer takes thin beads of plastic reporter the printers melting filament to create a preprogrammed design on a heated surface. Many makers using donated Raw Materials to create their prints free of charge. Others selling at cost, about 1 apiece. And these down here are finished. Reporter in maryland, todd blatt shows us how a laser cutter shapes those clear shields. His art studio turned Assembly Line churning out more than 1,200 shields so far. Were shipping out 500 face shields today to arizona. Reporter retired air force engineer john grant is part of the effort. Hes attaching overhead projector sheets from School Classrooms to 3d printed headbands. Families filling the gap for ppe one 3d printer at a time. Theres always something that everybody can do. Even if you dont have a 3d printer, you can help somehow. Reporter for abc news, im devin dwyer in washington. Thank you, devin, for that report. Sales have been down for many businesses during the crisis, of course, but one store in florida is seeing a boost. This is kyles bike shop in orlando. Its owner says sales have tripled with so many people staying home. Riders hailing it as a Great Outdoor option. To see people on bikes when i didnt when i didnt used to see people on a bike, its just amazing and its wonderful, i love it. Saturday is our busiest day of the week typically, just any given week. Whereas now every day is like a saturday. Just remember to ride side by side, you dont want to be in their slipstream. Business has been so good the shop has added staff during the pandemic, hiring four new employees. When that owner was talking with our local station there, i heard he spoke very well. Oh, moistly . Spoke . Like bike . Okay. I had to give you some kind of corny friday joke. Coming up, why now is the perfect time to tackle Spring Cleaning. How employing the oneminute rule on the power hour can bring you inner calm. You inner calm. Test test krirks ive been involved in. Communications in the media for 45 years. Ive been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. For me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. And i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. It has helped me an awful lot. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Youre in a group most likely to develop skin cancer, including melanoma. Thats why your best shot is to check for a spot. Follow through and check your skin. Go to spotskincancer. Org to find out how. Is it any wonder ive got too much time on my hands with so many of us having too much time on our hands these days, now is the perfect time to kick that Spring Cleaning into high gear. Call it the spring clean quarantine. Our own marie kondo will ganss is here. Oh, yes, were all about sparking joy. With all of us spending so much time at home, the one thing we dont want in quarantine with us is clutter. Heres how to kick it to the curb. If youre like me, that quarantine clutter is adding up. I think these go in my fridge, i have no idea. Reporter Gretchen Rubin says now is the perfect time to get your space spick and span. Quarantine is a great time to get a better grip on our clutter for two reasons. One, we might have a little bit more extra time right now, so we can take 20 minutes a day or an hour a day to start tackling those problem areas. Second of all, we really might need that space. These days when everybodys safe at home, there might be a lot more people under one roof than are usually there. Reporter the New York Times bestselling author of outer order, inner calm offering tips to those of us who could use a crash course in clutter. All right, im locked, im loaded, and im ready to go. Lets do this spring clean quarantine. The oneminute rule. This is the rule that anything you can do in less than a minute, you can do without delay. If you can hang up your coat. If you can put your coffee mug in the dishwasher instead of putting it on the counter. Go ahead and do it and that gets rid of that scum of clutter thats on the surface in the everyday of life. Reporter i hit the ground running. Dog toys, coffee cups, random booked tucked away. For those bigger tasks power hour. Keep a list of the nagging tasks that mount up. Once a week spend just one hour doing them. Its amazing how quickly you start moving through that list. Reporter for me that list includes a few paint touchups and a pantry overall. Who knew. When you take your Christmas Lights and easter decorations out of your pantry, you have a little bit more room than you thought you did. Reporter an hour later im feeling pretty good about this. Final advice, dont stress yourself out thinking, ive got to get organized. Dont get organized. Get rid of everything you dont need, dont use, dont love. If you do, you may not have anything left over you need to organize. If you go through all your paperwork and realize, i dont need to hang on to this, then you dont need a filing system to track it all. Reporter throwing stuff out or setting it aside to be donated, thats doable. This is from 2017, time to go in the trash. Reporter as the clutter goes away, gretchen says Something Else may show up and surprise you, a sense of inner peace. In a time when things feel very out of control, when theres so many things we cant control, its comforting and reassuring to assert our control over the things that are within our grasp and create the surroundings that really comfort and energize us. There you have it. The baseboards are painted, the pantry is reorganized, everything is put right where it belongs. Hey, thats how you spring clean in quarantine. All right, so one final tip for you guys. When you are getting organized, gretchen says dont label anything miscellaneous, youll never look in that file or box ever again. Yikes. I feel seen right now. Yes. That girls a mess. Hey thanks, will, you know where my office is. Sstop struggling to clean tough messes with sprays. Try clean freak it has three times the cleaning power of the leading spray to dissolve kitchen grease on contact. And its great for bathrooms just keep pumping the power nozzle to release a continuous burst of mist and make quick work of big jobs. It even works on stainless steel. It cuts through 100 of dirt, grease and grime. Available with easytoswap refills. To get three times the cleaning power, try clean freak from mr. Clean. On this good friday we give you feel good friday. Weve got stories that make you feel warm and fuzzy inside as we head into this Holiday Weekend. Were going to start with a hero of the day. We got an out of work waitress who says shes going to give back, serving to her community. You know what line i loved . She said, since i couldnt donate cash, the least i could do is donate my time. She worked at a diner, it closed down, but she took her skills and helped serve people. This waitress, her name is shakira stewart. Shes in brooklyn. Feeding new yorkers now is her fulltime job. We love to see it. Because again, it doesnt have to always be monetary donations, your time is just as valuable. Delivering groceries to your neighbors, 27 years old, miss stewart, we salute you, bravo to you. We highlight these folks across the country. I do believe they represent a larger number of people who are doing the exact same thing. So again, we love to see that. We know the Restaurant Industry has been hit very hard. And so a georgia bar that used to have a tradition of taking dollar bills and stapling it onto the walls ive seen that all over the place, walls covered in dollar bills. Its been going on for years, people leave messages, all that stuff. They collected i believe around 3,714 over the years. When she had to let her workers go, or wasnt able to pay them, the bar owner, she took those dollars down and paid them using that money. Talking about an investment in your business there. People put all that up, then its so smart. Yeah, theyre dirty, theyre nasty. It took three days, yall. But you know what, how a dollar bill thats written on spends differently than a dollar bill thats clean and has not been written on . It doesnt. Still spends the same. I was going, i didnt hear that rule. They still have to accept it, its all good. Right. With donations, that brought the total to 4,104. Whoo, thats a good load right there. We also on this feel good friday need to tell you when it comes to adopting pets from shelters, california said, were essentially out of them. Not all of california, but in Riverside County in southern california, its empty. That means every anima has a home. You dont hear a dog bark, you dont hear a cat give you a scowl. You dont hear nothing going on inside that shelter because it is empty. People, they flocked to the Animal Shelter and said, were going to take all those animals. Before we leave, you want to see some pandas . Some pandas . Lately, ive discovered that while keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. So while youre discovering new things to do in the box, well be here for you. At the drivethru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. We saw the earthquake grace in bold was offering a grant program. I signed up and i was actually selected it leaves the house in tack. You now know that in the next earthquake your house will be standing and we also got a discount on our earthquake insurance. If there is an earthquake. Our house has a better chance of surviving in. While keeping safe and staying in, we can still go out sort of. So while youre discovering new things to do in the box, well be here for you. At the drivethru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. This morning on world news now, President Trump says were at the top of the hill. This also means hospitals in the hardesthit areas are overwhelmed with patients. New york citys death toll hitting another new high. New concerns about long island, new york, and even the main jail in chicago. Plus the heroes. The surgeon whos back on the job after beating the virus. Also this morning, the new concerns about the economy. Nearly 17 million americans out of work. And the long lines at food banks which are struggling to keep people fed. Just days ahead of Easter Sunday, so many churches are taking their services online. But not everyone is on board. In one state that battle may go all the way to the state supreme court. And your local store might be out of Hand Sanitizer or toilet paper, but chances are its got plenty of chicken wings. Well explain why theres a surplus not seen in years on this friday, april 10th. We do say good morning on this good friday. Happy easter weekend, happy passover, happy friday. Happy friday. Everyone needs to just celebrate friday these days. Im dying about the american staple, a surplus in chicken wings. Wait till you find out why theres a surplus. I dont know if people think of this. Its interesting. Nice tease there. We will get to that in just a moment. We begin with the very latest on developments in the battle against the coronavirus. The nationwide death toll is closing in on 17,000, and there are more than 465,000 confirmed cases in the u. S. Despite those numbers, President Trump says the curve could be flattening. President trump also announced that the fda is currently testing 19 new therapies and plans are in the works for more than two dozen additional clinical trials. It was the deadliest day in new york for the third day in a row. The state now has more confirmed cases than any country outside the u. S. But theres also a hopeful sign. The rate of increase of new cases in new york has been steadily falling in recent days, and Scientists Say it shows that social distancing is working. Abcs whit johnson has more. Reporter the battle to save lives growing more desperate. Making considerably more progress. Reporter inside this icu at maimonides hospital in brooklyn, doctors deploying a rare treatment on Covid Patients in their 30s and 40s still failing on ventilators. In the current epidemic its used as a last resort when ventilators are not enough. Reporter dr. Saunders temporarily drawing blood out of the body to oxygenate red blood cells in patients whose lungs arent functioning. With limited resources we have to be very careful who were going to offer it to, making sure those patients are ones who have a good chance of good benefit. Reporter in new york state the death toll reaching new heights by the day, coronavirus killing nearly 800 people in just 24 hours. Weve lost over 7,000 lives to this crisis. That is so shocking and painful and breathtaking. I cant i dont even have the words for it. Reporter overwhelmed hospitals scrambling this week to move patients to facilities with more room, stacking some patients on bunks in large trucks to be transported. The virus surging in new york suburbs. In suffolk county, long island, covid19 claiming the lives of two nurses. Construction on a 1,000bed Field Hospital now under way. New Research Suggests the virus was circulating in the new york area by midfebruary, weeks before the first confirmed case. New york was seeded before they really knew what was going on. And thats why theyre in the difficult situation that theyre in right now. Reporter researchers suspect that travelers brought it mainly from europe, not asia. The pandemic still sweeping across the country. In illinois, the death toll topping 500. The virus exploding behind bars at the Cook County Jail in chicago. At least 350 inmates and staff infected. Most of the inmates havent been tested. Doctors are closely watching growing cases in d. C. , baltimore, and philadelphia, where mike and kelly dewan saw firsthand how quickly the virus spreads. Within days of a Birthday Dinner for his daughters, 10 members of the family were sick. The entire family, grandparents too. Mike deteriorated quickly. Labored breathing. Cant get a deep breath, i cant breathe. Reporter after 17 days on a ventilator and that experimental ebola drug, mike woke up and is now recovering. So i think about it every day. Reporter the number of hospitalizations is starting to flatten considerably, a sign that new york state might be nearing its apex. But it comes with a painful toll. The death rate remains high as some of those patients who have been in the hospital for an extended period of time lose their battle with the virus. Whit johnson, abc news, new york. Whit, thank you. Around the country its possible that major sporting events wont resume until thanksgiving in northern california. Thats according to a Santa Clara County executive who is also a doctor. Santa clara is home to the nfls San Francisco 49ers and nhls san jose sharks. In new jersey the National Guard has deployed 75 combat medics to a pair of veterans homes to help with staffing shortages there. At least 14 people have died in those facilities alone. Dozens more have tested positive for coronavirus. In michigan, Governor Whitmer has created a Coronavirus Task force on racial disparities. Black people in that state make up just 14 of the population, but they account for more than 40 of its covid19 deaths. The governor hoping that task force can do some good. A Top International banking official says the virus could produce the worst economic fallout since the great depression. That news comes just as the government announced 6. 6 million americans filed for unemployment last week. The threeweek total is nearly 17 million. The labor secretary says some states are making 600 weekly Unemployment Benefits available. He said those in states that are not already making those payments will be backpaid. The nations food banks are struggling to keep up with demand. A long line of cars waited for food thursday in los angeles. The Regional Food Bank says theres been a nearly 50 increase in the food its distributed over the last two weeks compared to last year. Its much the same in miami where one official says miles and miles of people lined up for supplies. One resident spoke with abcs victor oquendo. How much does this help out . Let me tell you, now its getting worse because you go to supermarkets and you dont see nothing, the shelves are empty. The problem is so extreme that Miamidade County officials have ordered 500,000 meals ready to eat like those used by the military. The virus is taking a heavy toll on the u. S. Aircraft carrier fleet. So far at least 416 sailors aboard the Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive, more than 8 of the crew. Two other u. S. Carriers report crew members infected with the virus. The Ronald Reagan docked in japan, and the nimitz docked in washington state. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to be in extremely good spirits now that hes no longer in the intensive care in london. Johnson has been hospitalized nearly a week battling the virus. Britains foreign secretary is taking jo

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