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KGO ABC7 News 400PM July 12, 2024

Made worse by those who disregarded social distancing guidelines. The states included arizona, arkansas, mississippi, north carolina, south carolina, tennessee, texas and utah. A, a has a 74 increase in average hospitalizations since memorial day. Here in the bay area, all counties saw an increase in covid19 cases over the past 14 days. You can see this graph. The uptick in cases. For example, marin countys numbers have gone up. One. Highest per cam at a just pass county announced its plans to move deep entire phase ii. Reporter we are seeing the second wave of covid19 cases building as restrictions have been loosening up, right . It is not only in marin county but throughout the entire state. You heard Governor Newsom say, there is no turning back. Beginning tomorrow, marin county will allow for all indoor retail sales, including auto dealerships. Businesses must limit the number of customers inside an establishment, while also enforcing facial covering requirements, and physical. Protective screens must be installed. Marin county also allowedparks, faithbased organizations to reopen on june 5th. In the past 14 days, there have been 243 new confirmed cases of covid19 in marin county alone. Up from 165 cases during the same number of days ending on may 27th. This increase is among highest per pi in the bay area. San mateo, San Francisco, and alameda are slightly higher. Two days ago, Health Officials in marin county adribble youd their increase, not to their reopening but to the memorial day weekend activities. Families went on road trips and neighbors gathered. Sometimes wearing face covers, sometimes not. Sometimes staying six feet apart and sometimes not. Reporter still this graphic shows how the number of bay area cases peaked around midapril. Weeks after the shelter in place order went into effect. The numbers declined but notice how they have been slowly going up as restrictions continue to be lifted. Here are the overall numbers of new confirmed cases for the top bay area counties in the past 14 days. Alameda with 984. San mateo, 512. Contra costa, 423. San francisco, 401, and santa clara, 344. It is not clear if more available testing has been responsible in part for the higher numbers. We expect to see more cases. But we really need testing to be readily available to all of those in the county that are at risk so that we can contain the virus and keep everyone safe. Reporter like i mentioned, testing is up but still below the governors goal of more than 60,000 tests per day. By the way, Health Officials in marin county are also asking people to get tested if they took part in reason protests. In the newsroom. Abc7 news. I dont mean for this to sound rhetorical, if the numbers are going up, why are counties Going Forward . How great is the chance that well be heading back to a stricter shelter in place . Hopefully not. Were experiencing three months of it here in the bay area. The argument the governor made, hey, listen. We have millions of masks, right in we have hospitals with ventilators, we have more testing than ever. Thats what he is arguing. He says we have all these modifications to move on and never look back but we have to do our part, too. We have to wear thee see h man that. Thank you. In the bay area. Today is day 87. Mayor sam liccardo has released his final message for the fiscal year and he says the county can avoid fiscal cuts for now despite the recession caused by thecorovi it came with a warning. Reporter many cities across california have seen their budgets greatly impacted by the pandemicinduced recession. But in san jose well be able to maintain services. A lot of areas are going through gut wrenching cuts. Were doing better than most because weve already been staffed and we put a lot of money into reserves. Reporter that was part of the message from mayor sam liccardo as he proposed his budget for the in july. Much of the calculations dependent on the economy making a comeback by the fall. The real challenge is year two and three and well learn a lot more in the weeks and months ahead about how to get through the tough time ahead. Reporter in an effort to save money, san jose has either frozen or eliminated Unfilled Positions at city hall and other departments. One includes the creation of an office of Racial Equity which will be partially funded by outward grants. Creating the office is the first step. Then the people in there need to absolutely change the way that business is done in city hall. Fundamentally change it. Urban chairman calls it a moral document and says cities can play a positive role with the right priorities. More money to parks and recreation. More money to community services. Ful more money and staffing toward maehl services. But only time will tell how much money will be available. Well continue to tighten our belt and focus on our highest priorities, consistent with our values. Abc7 news. Sun valley mall in concord is reopen. The doors reopened at 11 00 this morning but not all stores are back in business. Others like macys are offering curbside service. The mayor said theyve taken precautions like turning off water fountains, changing the seating in the food court. Dmv offices closed because of the pandemic are back open. The state closed all 169 offices in late march. It has been opening them in stages since early may. Youll have to make an appointment before going. Behind the wheel driving tests are still not available because of physical distancing rules. New developments today. The iteam reporter dan noyes has confirmed the airor accused the killing of a federal officer in oakland. Steven carrillo was arrested. The sources confirm a white vandal was involved in both incidents. Investigators were looking at his cell phone tower pings to track his whereabouts. Prosecutors filed 19 charges against him. Officers are right now respondsing to a shooting in pa where police and deputies have been searching for a man suspected of shooting, jagr deputy and killing another man yesterday. Investigators identified him as mason, a transient. There was last seen at a gas station early this morning. A taheir case tool tactics during reason protests. Attorneys for those arrested are demanding charges be drop. Meantime, the police chief is promising reforms. Reporter during more than a week of protests over the death of george floyd, some actions by the Oakland Police are being called out. We demand that the city of oakland finally be held accountable. Reporter the cabrera social justice organizations announced theyre filing a civil Rights Action lawsuit against the city of oakland for its crowd control actions against protesters. We lift up the unconscionable use of tear gas at the Oakland Police department. C ing drop all charges. Power to the people reporter the attorney joined other lawyers in asking Police Departments be defunded and charges against protesters be decriminalized. Each and every person here has an affirmative defense that they were exercising their First Amendment rights, to protest Police Brutality inflicted upon people of color. Reporter now a new pledge to reform the Police Department from its interim chief. There is a promise of a systematic review of forceful the chief promises banning the use of the carotid restrain, a type of chokehold, and commits to reviewing the cannot wait reforms promoted by those calling for an ends to Police Brutality. What she laid out in the letter is a structure Going Forward, addressing issues that are of concern to the community, and also, reviewing our Deployment Strategies to see what we can do better. Reporter the chiefs memo promises to review crowd control policies. Her report could take months to compile. Activists say they cant wait that long. The police are employed by the people. We pay their salaries. Theyre accountable to us. The San Francisco mayor london breed unveiled her plan to reform the San Francisco Police Department. If were going to make real significant change, we need to fundamentally change the name of policing itself. Her proposal would end the use of Police Officers in noncriminal activities like disputes between neighbors, School Discipline and maehl calls. Instead, nonarmed calls. It demands that officials address police bias in strengthen accountability and calls for the promotion of economic justice. Breed says it would build on the ongoing work to neat standards contained in president obamas 2015 task force on 21 century policing. A lot more to come. As we continue, stocks had their worst day since march. Well take a look at what rattled in57ors so badly. And police say underfunding is causing them on make tough decisions. Reverend Jesse Jackson joins us live to talk about how the current protests are different than ever before. Still hot inland but not for long. I when you walk into an amazon fulfillment center, its like walking into the Chocolate Factory and you won a golden ticket. A box delivered, screams mommys work mommys work. With this pandemic, safety is even more important to make sure we go home safe every single day. Nissan is ready to help you with a bold, awardwinning lineup. Kick off summer. With no payments for 3 months. Plus, well cover your payments for up to 2 more months. Or get 0 financing on 13 models for up to 84 months. Shopathome at nissan usa dot com. Stocks were down dramatically today over worries about how quickly the economy will rebound and a reason spike in coronavirus cases as more states begin to open up. Th dow, nasdaq and s p all had thr performances cynic midmarch. Last week, more than 1. 5 Million People filed for unemployment benefits. It is the tenth week in a row of decreases since march. Overall, more than 44 million claim have been filed in the last 12 weeks during the shutdown. Since the pandemic cause that had widespread lockdown of businesses all across the country. The east Contra Costa Fire Department is facing underfunding and firefighters will not be able to respond to all calls. Joining me to talk about this. Thank you for joining us. I understand starting july 1st, the district will only send firefighters inside a burning building, if human life is at risk. Is that right . Reporter thats correct. Can you explain the factors behind that decision . Absolutely. There are many factors that brought to us this decision point. I will tell you, ive bebl a fire chief here since 2017 and this is by far the most difficult decision that ive had to make as a fire chief. We are a very underfunded Fire District west dont have the resources to adequately do our job to protect the communities we have. We put undue strain on our outside Fire Departments to support us on a daily basis. I do not have the resources to protect my members when they respond to the fire. For that reason, we have to fight fires from the outside in. And we cannot call Additional Resources, and lean upon outside agencies, under my direction. Unless there is life safety. So in addition to the safety of your staff, what about for businesses and residents . What does that mean for them . That sounds like in some cases, it will be a, let it burn. Negative. We will never let it burn. We are not trained. We do not have the intent to let anything just burn. Well always do the best with what we have. The intent with the direction im giving to all our members, they respond with three fire engines. Everyone throughout the bay area responds with no less than five fire engines. When we arrive at the seasonable because we only have three, they have to handle the incident with the resources they have at time of dispax. Historically, if we had smoke and names showing, we would call for Additional Resources and lean possible outside agencies. I need to make sure that the agreements we have with other agencies are sustainable. Right now we are leaning on a lot of other agencies. For that reason, when we arrive at the seasonable. If there is smoke and flames showing, theyll do the best they can with what they have. Theyll call for Additional Resources. But theyll work to fight the fire the best they can with three units. The only time theyll consider calling for Additional Resources is if they cant keep it to the additional building. I understand. Youre trying to be fair to your mutual aid partners. But tell me why youre so underfunded. Is it because of the state or your own district rejecting. At a measures . I would say it is a little bit of both to some degree. I would really actually say, look. The Fire District has been underfunded historically. This is not a new issue. The Fire Department has been challenged with and hand really addressed growth over the decades. So right now we have an existing they have station deficit of not putting the appropriate mitigation measures. Right now were making sure weve corrected that issue. We know we can fully fund in the future but we have a threestation deficit here today. So we do need the citizens and the businesses and our Community Members to support potentially something the district puts on in the future. Right now, the board is considering what to do. But there will be no decisions made until the vote in november. Thank you. Good luck to you. I know it could be a tough fire season ahead. Best of luck. Thank you. Please stay engaged. San franciscos allen rock park is back open with limitations. People are end couraged to bring their own water. Use of picnic tables and barbecue pits are prohibited. It will remain open until 8 00. And visitors are once again welcome in Yosemite National park. The rangers opened the gates at 7 00 this morning in the first step of a phased reopening. Visitors will need to make a reservation online with the park allowing only 1700 vehicles in each day. Nearby businesses have had a really tough go of it with the park closed. Mariposa county reportedly lost 86,000 a day in hotel taxes alone. So the impact in and around yosemite is just devastating. All right. Well shift gears now. A breath of fresh air and a breath of cool air too, right . Absolutely. Especially if youve really been tired of the hot weather lately. Dan and kristen, as you will notice the cloud cover, it is a vail of clouds across the cabrera and the 24hour temperature change definitely going down. Down ten degrees in fairfield and concord. The sea breeze is picking up. 22 miles an hour in San Francisco and also, in livermore. An onshore breeze coming off the ocean. From our mt. Attempt cam, you can see the cloud cover. 67 in the city. 74 in oakland. 80 in not is a hose, 91 in gilroy. Our hottest spots in the low to mid 90s for our highs so far this afternoon inland. So it was a hot one. And well show you the filtered sunshine as we look back to San Francisco. Beautiful weather, warm in santa dlees and fairfield. Mid to upper 50s. 83 in livermore. From our exploratory camera, you can see the sunshine around the financial district. Mostly cloudy with patchy morning drizzle. Were looking at the possibility of sprifrgs or isolated showers between tomorrow night and saturday in association with the front that will come through. Tonight, 7 00 p. M. You have the fog around. Well have the high clouds around tomorrow morning. And then as we widen out the picture, that front will produce some high elevation no in the sierra i know what showers. In the bay area, there is a possibility it may squeeze out a few showers. The best chance will be in the north bay, going into saturday. As we take a look at the winds, this is really going only the th big change c at noontime, they pick up into the afternoon and evening. And everyone will feel the change with those winds going into saturday morning, gusting to 31 at pth royes. It will be a cooler start with the drizzle and the fog. Windy tomorrow and much cooler. So the warmest spots that were in the mid 90s today, in the upper 70s. 69 in oakland, 64 in San Francisco. 73 in san rafael and 76 degrees in santa rosa, 59 in half moon bay. Heres the accuweather seven day forecast. Much cooler weather with the temperatures tumbling. Windy conditions the next few days. The possibility of a few sprinkles and then sunday, lighter winds and warming it up. For those of you who like the summerlike heat, youve got the 90s but not until next week. Inland layers will see the mid 60s. All right. 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