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KGO ABC7 News 600PM July 13, 2024

For a visit will face consequences. M get away to the beautiful shores of South Lake Tahoe, the pristine mountain views are only accessible to property owners. If you are a second homeowner, it is okay to come here and live in your house. While we definitely love visitors, right now is not the time. The El Dorado County Public Health Office Issued an ordinance back in march, prohibiting visitors in an effort to help enforce shelter in place orders. If violated, any visitors are lodging facilities will face a 1,000 fine. That would effectively fine either guests and property or Business Owners in the city of South Lake Tahoe who offer lodging and actually have people stay. Jerry vindel is forest suites resort at heavenly village. His 115 suites spanning the fiveacre property remain empty. This is very difficult for someone in the Tourism Industry to say this, but we do ask that you not come up until were ready. But a few miles past the nevada state line, some small hotels not affiliated with casinos are open. There are just a few of those, but they are open. He says its unlikely that will happen in south lake until june at the earliest. And even when it does certainly at the beginning, were looking at 50 plus percent occupancy losses. No crowded beach, and hotels and lodging facilities will have new restrictions. There are standards that you may even have to have time in between departure and arrival to allow a room to sit vacant and then we go in and clean. But until then, the rules are clear. We dont want to say dont come to tahoe, but we also need to recognize we need to be safe right now so we can move into the next stage as quickly as possible. So far, four fines have been issued to hotels and shortterm rentals in South Lake Tahoe for violating this order. We did learn that police say they will be out patrolling, of course, again, in south lake this weekend. Reporting live, stephanie sierra, abc7 news. Stephanie, thank you. Santa cruz county is keeping its beaches closed over the long Holiday Weekend. This is a live look at our Santa Cruz Beach cam. You see a couple of boats out there. Surfers are allowed in the water, but no one is allowed to sit or sunbathe on the sand. You can exercise on your own or walk at a social distance. Speaking of social distancing, San Francisco is making sure people play by the rules. Crews painted circles six feet apart on the grass. Theyre intended to keep people safely separated. The same circles were painted at dolores park yesterday. San francisco borrowed the idea from brooklyn which rolled out the social distancing circles at one of its parks last weekend. Its a pretty good idea because were starting to get really warm outside, and spencer, that means were going to be wanting to get outside. That is for sure. Spencer, we spent a couple of months wanting to go somewhere. After a few days of this heat, we might want to run back inside. I think youre right about that. We have some pretty intense heat coming our way. But it will take a couple of days to get here. Lets look aton as windy across the bay area right now, especially at the coast, where we have a 35mileperhour winds in San Francisco and winds above 25 Miles Per Hour in other locations. Current temperature readings, though, are on the mild and pleasant side. 65 in San Francisco. Low to mid70s at oakland, redwood city, san jose and gilroy. And 65 in pacifica. Other temperature readings under sunny skies, mid to upper 70s at santa rosa, petaluma, napa, concord and livermore. 81 at fairfield. But heres whats coming our way. This is just a little taste of the beginning of the memorial day warmup. Saturday upper 80s inland. By sunday, well see low to mid90s inland, about 80 degrees around the bay shoreline. Monday, memorial day, it will be sizzling inland with upper 90s, maybe even 1 hundred in some spots. Here is the intense heat or i should say the intense heat is coming our way after memorial day. We are likely to have a couple more days of temperatures exceeding 100 degrees. Ill give you a closer look at that a little later. Larry and ama . Thank you, spencer. Solano county is the second area to receive permission from the state to move further into stage two of reopening. Effective 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow, dinein restaurnts, shopping malls about, and swap meets can all open with social distancing modifications. The city of vacaville summer camps and other parks and recreation activities are scheduled to begin on june 15th. Napa county is the first bay area to go into phase 2 earlier this week. 43 of californias 58 counties have filed paperwork with the state to move deeper into stage 2 addition to napa and solano counties, they include yolo, lake, the last bay area county to take the stage 2 step. As chris nguyen explains, officials in san jose could soon take it a step further with even stricter regulations enforcing it could be an issue. In the bay areas largest city, the San Jose City council is expected to vote in early june on a proposed ordinance that would require almost everyone to wear a Face Covering whenever theyre in public or when interacting with anyone outside their immediate household. We certainly want to make sure that when youre actions are sort of getting into the space of others and putting their livelihood and their health in jeopardy, thats when the city and any Governmental Agency needs to step in and really be very thoughtful as to how we do things. The proposal does make room for kpengss such as not having to wear a Face Covering when exercising outdoors. Children under the age of 6 as well as those unable to breathe while wearing a Face Covering or those who cant put one on themselves are exempt. However, there are concerns about overreach. Were trying to protect one another and encourage people to wear masks. And im all for that, but i dont want this to turn out to be a big gripe session and a big burden on our police department. San jose police say they dont are the capacity to enforce the entire ordinance because of limited staffing. The police chief is also concerned about the potential for 911 to be overloaded with unnecessary calls, saying that enforcement would impact the areas most vulnerable populations. City and county leaders arent expecting full enforcement, but hope to convey that wearing a Face Covering must ultimately become a social norm. Were not trying to give them a citation or cite them. We want them to have the best information they can to keep themselves, their employees, their employees family and their customers safe. To help, a proposal going before the county board, also in early june, calls for the creation of a health and Business Engagement team who would receive special training to provide basic covid19 education in the community in multiple languages. We think by having these conversations and really educating people that were going to increase compliance. This Community Working to build a safer and healthier bay area as it continues to debate how to do just that. In san jose, chris nguyen, abc7 news. Also in santa clara county, Health Officials are asking for your help to perform contact tracing. Theyre looking for at least a thousand volunteers to be a resource for covid19 patients and help trace who they have come in contact with. Contact tracers can work remotely. Other headlines, after suspending standardized test requirements in march due to the pandemic, the uc system is permanently getting rid of sat and act requirements. Its been this the works for some time. Next year the tests will be optional. By 2025, use of the sat and act will be fully eliminated for instate students. Guidance for outofstate students would be determined. The goal is for the uc system to develop its own testing. And as this unfolds, university of california president Janet Napolitano says she estimates most if not all uc campuses will operate on a hybrid learning basis in the fall, also planning for remote work in the future, facebook. I think its quite possible over the next five to ten years, about 50 of our people could be working remotely. That was ceo mark zuckerberg. He was Live Streaming a Company Meeting today. In the shortterm, he says employees can continue to work from home for the remainder of 2020. A worker at a nursing home thats suffering a deadly coronavirus outbreak has been escorted off the property by police. He says that happened because he is a whistleblower who raised concerns about the facility. Dan noyes joins us with an update to anniteam investigation. Dan, you have been all over this. Well, ama, the owner of the nursing home implies he was suspended for some other reason, as youll hear in just a moment. But the worker tells me the pressure began to build after he appeared in anniteam report last month. When i first met devon green, he didnt show his face or use his name because he wanted to keep working with the elderly at orinda care center. But he wanted to raise issues about the nursing home where dozens of patients and staff have been infected by coronavirus and at least four patients have died. How can all the residents get infected when theyre not moving . Theyre not leaving out their rooms. Theyre not going nowhere. And so youre saying it was the employees . Yeah, i believe it was the employees that were spreading it. Complained about a shortage of personal protective equipment. In the days after that report, green now tells me a Pressure Campaign began by managers. Went around in the building, told everybody that i did a news story against them a few weeks back, and its been a hostile Work Environment ever since. This past tuesday, green says he talked to orinda cares manager about not getting paid for some hours he worked. They put me in the office to talk to the payroll lady. The police came, escorted me out, saying i were suspended. I arrived within the hour and flagged down the officer who had escorted green out. He wouldnt answer any questions. I interviewed orinda care owner crystal solarzano one month ago. We feel for every single patient, Family Member thats passed. But today she declined to go on camera. I asked her by text, did you discipline him for raising concerns about orinda case. Her spokesperson added while we cant discuss personnel matters, our first concern is always for the safety of staff and patients. Devon green tells me he had no conflicts with staff or patients, but they laughed and joked every day. And he provided this tiktok video that he and some nurses recently made. The whistleblower laws are there to protect whistleblowers because whistleblowers are there to protect us. A top San Francisco employment attorney cant pass judgment on devon greens case, but says he might be able to sue for lost wages, damages, Emotional Distress and to restore his reputation. I think in these times of covid19, we want employees to speak out. Thats the purpose of these laws is to encourage people to speak it. Greens girlfriend was a nursing assistant at orinda care, but she resigned because of how he was treated. For the iteam, dan noise, abc7 news. And dan noyes and the iteam have looked into the situation at a lot of local nursing homes. You can check out those stories on our website, abc7news. Com iteam. Thrift stores shut while we shelter in place. If you have a pile of donations at your house waiting to go out the door, you might not get to drop them off where you used to. New at 6 00, the future of places like goodwill. And see what it takes to make it safe to travel thanks to a big there is more imlegal dumping than usual going on in oakland and a big backlog of requests to clean it all up. Oaklands department of public works was down to 30 at one point during the shelter in place, but now nearly all employees are back in work. At march they faced about 100 requests a day. Last month it was up to 400. Crews set a city record this month by clearing 291 dump sites in one day. You can call 311 to report any Illegal Dumping or go to the city of oaklands website to do it online. Donation centers run by big bay area nonprofits, theyre still probably a few weeks away from reopening. When they do get that clean light, at least one big name operation will not be around to accept what is expected to be a big surge in items from residents who have spent the last several weeks cleaning out their closets. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony has the story from the east bay, which is new at 6 00. Closed now for more than two months, the very existence of the goodwills bay area Donation Centers and Thrift Stores is in jeopardy. We dont know yet. We dont quite yet which goodwills will close. Goodwill gets 80 of revenues from the sale of donated goods in its stores. Right now those sales amount to zero. And because they each employee more than 500 people, most of goodwills 14 california locations do not qualify for federal aid. If we cant figure this out to get some federal assistance, i think that we will see some sites closed definitely. Well also see potentially some goodwills having to file for bankruptcy and restructure. Were going to open it up in phases. Like goodwill, the Salvation Armyis also preparing for a tremendous influx of donated goods as many of the bay areas sheltered residents have used their time to clean out closets and garages. The Salvation Army will welcome the goods, but with a host of new protocols in place to make sure everything thats received is safe. Once we have donation attendance again at the donation stations, they will have masks. They will have gloves. Well practice social distancing and follow all regulations as advised by the cdc and local governments. As an additional safety measure, the donated goods will be placed in a separate area for at least 72 hours to allow for the dissipation of any potential covid19 contamination. Laura anthony, abc7 news. The Oakland International airport is reporting a dramatic decline in air travel amid the coronavirus pandemic. Between march and april, the airport saw a nearly 90 drop. April air travel was down 95 compared to last year, with restrictions starting to be eased, the airport hopes to see some recovery by summer. The Largest Airline at San Francisco international airport, united, is instituting safety property kohls to convince flyers to return to the skies. They believe it a product developed by clorox will make a difference. United says the majority of flights at San Francisco arrive and depart less than half all fall. Theyre hoping new safety procedures will increase confidence in flying. Theyll receive individual hand wipes as they board, and more of them in on board snack bags. Sneeze guards will help to protect employees. Behind the scenes, employees are required to do thermal temperature checks. At the large maintenance base, theyve been busy making hand sanitizer. The biggest change is disinfecting the aircraft cabins. Its already done for all international and overnight flights. Soon every aircraft will be electrostatic sprayed before takeoff. They move from the front or back and spray or fog the entire aircraft, letting it rest for just a minute or so. Its a very effective tool and has immediate effect. Tray tables in the galley are also sanitized. United partnered with clorox a with thelevela cni totandard fo disinfecting the cabin. Certainly our partnership with clorox and the Cleveland Clinic sets us apart and hopefully instills the confidence that its not just united determining the best path that were going to take forward, but were working with true experts in the field. United was criticized earlier this month when a San Francisco cardiologist tweeted a photo of a packed plane as medical volunteers returned home from treating patients in new york. Today passengers heading to chicago were switched from a smaller 737 to a larger 757 so there would be empty seats to allow for social distancing. United says this will happen more frequently, along with allowing passengers to change flights if theirs is heavily book. With covids impact on airlines so severe, theyre hoping hygiene will provide the lift they seek. At sfo, david louie, abc7 news. Air travel is one of the eight areas in which weve created an immersive interactive experience online to explore what the future will look like. You can check it out on abc7news. Com. Coming up next, get ready for the heat. Spencer has our sevenday a San Francisco Restaurant Owner has pleaded guilty in federal court and has agreed to cooperate in an ongoing Corruption Case against the citys former public works director. Nick bovis, the owner of lefty odouls restaurant pleaded guiltied the to two criminal fraud charges. The hearing was done by videoconference. Details about the charges are sealed. Bovis and Muhammad Nuru were originally charged in january for an unsuccessful scheme trying to bribe an sfo airport commissioner for help in obtaining a restaurant concession in 2018. Bovis now faces 20 years in prison for each count and a 250,000 fine. All right. Lets turn to the weather, because the Holiday Weekend is about here, and its going to get close to scorching, spencer . I would say even abov

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