Mom had been swimming. The california employment reporter the nearly 250foot black lives matter mural outside development department, the e. D. D. , is coming under Palo Alto City Hall is hard to miss. Increasing fire for not doing many people paying close its job adequately, leaving those in need without money or attention to the ethe word matter. A portrait of joanne, also san answers. 7 on your sides Michael Finney has been talking with some very antonio as shakur. Frustrated unemployed workers and angry lawmakers. Its different than the photos there is so much frustration, plastered on the most wanted so many inadequate outcomes, it terrorist list. Is hard to know exactly when the the black Liberation Army was e. D. D. Crossed the line. Convicted and sentenced for a perhaps it was on june 22nd when new jersey state trooper in the e. D. D. Instituted a policy 1973. She escaped in 1979. Where lawmakers were told to these were not social justice stop trying to help their warriors as we see today. These were felons, they were constituents so much. In this email, the e. D. D. Laying criminals, they were killers. Reporter theic down the law. State senators and assembly asciion launched a p temov members may request one constituent referral per week to shak, but the oakland be expedited. Do sayinghiis the fact that our legislative offices are limited to only about defending the movements and communities im accountable to and work to uplift. Sharing one case or a handful of cases every week is just this time our work is being targeted by the National Police unacceptable. Assembly member david chiu association. She continued, they see her involvement with the black Liberation Movement as a threat and scott weiner of san to the status quo. Francisco held a News Conference around the clock wednesday and to say enough is enough. For much of the day thursday, but after almost four months artist volunteer guarded the of this, at some point the agency has to get it right. Image. I was on the e all day long. Around two hours after the today i decided to move my car News Conference, the e. D. D. After i learned the truth about backed off its one a week edict. Laura davis has been unemployed shakur. Eporter while he said he for weeks and has never been supports all Law Enforcement, he able to connect with a live person at e. D. D. Stands behind the freedom of the closest i got to getting speech. Palo altos m through was i got a recorded ay aut e as calls to message that said, were experiencing an supremely high volume of calls right now. Goodbye. Preserve the peace, directing me to a city statement which read, a group of republican in part, in no way does the mural take away from the value lawmakers may know why shes had we have in our Police Officers who serve our Community Every such trouble. In this letter accusing the day. In palo alto, im amanda del e. D. D. Of misleading the public castillo, abc7 news. By announcing they had opened in the east bay, a first in phone hours from 8 00 a. M. To the National Proposal to stop 8 00 p. M. , when specific police from conducting traffic stops in berkeley, its part of questions were only answered in the morning. The citys effort to redefine the letter which asked for an Law Enforcement in response to audit also accuses the department of misleading the black lives matter movement. Legislative offices by claiming this is the first in the nation effort theyre making. They are currently responding to claim inquiries sent on a abc7 News Reporter kate larson has the story. Reporter next week berkeley specific date when the department isnt doing that at city council will vote on a proposal to create a department all. Republican assemblyman kevin of transportation and use employees in that department to kylie represents district 6 make traffic stops instead of northeast of sacramento. Police. Everyone is hearing from, you most traffic stops dont really warrant a police officer. Know, hundreds of constituents who are experiencing these same reporter Darrell Owens is the coexecutive of east bay for everyone, a housing and traffic problems. The question is, is there going nonprofit. He helped pitch the new one year to be political will that is plan to berkeley city council. He says ideally the city would bipartisan for actually trying to fix the problem and bring take away money from berkeley p. D. To fund the new department. Accountability . Senator jerry hill of san a minor Traffic Violation should not have resulted in the mateo chairs the committee which murder of a black and brown oversees the e. D. D. From a government standpoint, body. But at the same time, we can also reexamine the nature of i think e. D. D. Has failed us. Punitive Law Enforcement and this week the senator met broken windows policing that with e. D. D. D. Staff, the makes Traffic Enforcement so deadly to begin with. Governors office and others, reporter berkeley is no and there is good news. Stranger to radical ideas, but those like laura davis who have when it comes to this proposal, been waiting the longest for many of the people ive spoken checks will be given priority by to here in Downtown Berkeley may not be ready for this new idea. The e. D. D. Now theyve taken a different thats crazy. Reporter why dont you think its a good idea . Tact where theyre going to look at all of the march and april because doing traffic stops is also a dangerous job, you those applications from march know. And april that they havent been you dont know who youre able to process fully, which ar stopping. I think the police need to be doing what they do best, which deal with those first. Is to secure the safety of our i requested interviews with the secretary for the California Labor and Work Force Development population and including Traffic Violations. Reporter berkeley Resident Agency and the director of the tim davis has a different perspective. E. D. D. I get stopped when im in my both requests were denied. Car, you know, many times. Today on abc7 news and theres no straight answer for it. You know what its about, its about skin color. Representative of the e. D. D. It is an interview worth. I dont think police should do everything in the city. We dont want to inhibit its posted on abc7news. Com. Im Michael Finney, 7 on your apprehending dangerous criminals or, you know, drunk drivers. Side. Do that. That is not the intent. It is worth watching. All right. Reporter along with the lets move on, talk about the weather forecast. Mayor, lori drosty is one of just a gorgeous out there, but getting hot. Sandhya patel is here. Three councilmembers sponsoring yeah, we had triple digits the proposal. It is unclear where the funding for the program might come from. Inland this afternoon and places next weeks vote is to begin the like fairfield. Community engagement process. Dan and ama, were going to see kate larson, abc7 news. Those temperatures dialing back just a little bit tomorrow San Francisco supervisors will now decide if voters should inland, and then the heat is on be asked to revise the city for the weekend. Lets take a look at a sunset chartered to determine how many that was absolutely amazing from officers the Police Department our east bay hills camera will have. Right now a Charter Amendment tonight. Skies were clear, and tonight there is very limited fog. Requires San Francisco police as a matter of fact, just a few employ at least 1971 officers. Patches. But that will be changing as we today as Supervisors Committee head towards tomorrow morning. So take a look at this stunning voted to let the full board decide on putting a measure on r came a we look towards th november ballot. If you need an ally when it comes toish use of justice and downtown San Francisco. Areas of dense fog in the morning. Equality, go to it is going to be b tomorw abc7news. Com take action. Youll find local resources and afternoon. The he ps inland thr guides. The weekd. The surge of coronavirus fire danger wilbe elevated, so remain vigilant. Cases across california is putting new strain on some bay one of the biggest factors for this fire danger is obviously area testing sites. Patients we talk with are having its one of our driest months, to wait up to two weeks just to but you kor. Get an appointment, and then another week to get their mo of e b area is in the modera tha do results. Abc7 News Reporter j. R. Stone p will quickly spread. Explains why this backlog is happening. Just something to keep in. Scary, its scary. Now, her youre going to notice it to get its really scary. Reporter tanishia williams, hotter. Sunday highressure over thedes mother of six with underlying conditions is describing her concern not knowing if she has westward. And as it does, it will bring the heat with it. Covid19. Like so many others, she waited low to moderate risk of heat in long lines in antioch illnesses here in the bay area, particularly inland. Thursday. Dangerous heat is expected in that were similar to these other parts of the state as you recent long lines at a testing will notice 120 in Palm Springs Center in hayward. She waited eight days to get a test and was told by kaiser sunday afternoon. Antioch to wait another week to 118 in needles, 113 in vegas. Get the results. There are excessive heat if im covid positive, i want warnings already in place for those areas. To know now. Live doppler 7 showing you the it shouldnt take me a week to patch of fog near point reyes. Find out if im covid19. I just think thats the pits it will be filling in as the right now. Night goes on. Reporter in San Francisco, there werent many cars at this temperatures, i have to tell you, its much warmer than 24 free peer 30 testing facility on hours ago. No major wind. Thursday. So 50s to 80s, many areas but try to get an appointment, and youll have to wait more inland, and the 70s and 80s than a week. Im seeing the wait times to still. As we look at the hour by hour get a test are really long, like forecast, 5 00 to 8 00 a. M. , eight or ten days at the combination of fog and high clouds. As the afternoon goes on, high embarcadero and the soma sites. Reporter earlier this week i scheduled an appointmeda the pl thin wispy clouds, particularly in the south and east bay. Those temperatures do come down, dead towards closing, so i asked if i could move up my though, tomorrow afternoon appointment. Employees, not knowing that im everywhere. Temperatures low 50s to mid 60s. A reporter said, no problem. Similar to others we talked with as we head into the afternoon hours, 96 in antioch. Its still hot. Dont get me wrong, 95 who came before their appointment date. Fairfield, 87 in san jose, 76 in tooms of la, saying oakland. That labs are now tes from other states, 86 san rafael. 66 in San Francisco. 62 degrees and breezy in half rnia, causing moon bay. Backups. They are also prioritizing your accuweather sevenday forecast a little cooler tests. Those officials, though, not tomorrow. Addressing backups in Getting Holding steady on saturday. And then sunday the heat is on. The tests taken. They said, okay, our next its going to be a summer appointment is in the 22nd of scorcher. Not everywhere. Just inland. July and im just like, what . Mid 60s to low 100s, the heat eases next week. My nerves are everywhere and by thursday i think most of right now. Us will be ready for a little bit of a break. Dan and ama . Im petrified waiting on this test, and i wish it can come back sooner, but a week, a week definitely. Thanks, sandhya. Well, aids walk San Francisco out . Is just ten days away. Reporter j. R. Stone, abc7 news. The virtual walk kicks off a new covid19 testing site sunday, july 19th, at 10 00 a. M. Aids walk live at home will opened in San Franciscos Mission District today. Stream online and air right here its called a low barriersite. On abc7. The star studded event will that means you dont need a feature bette midler, gloria doctors referral or insurance to receive a free test. Estefan and more. The site will operate every proceeds benefit p. R. C. And 20 thursday on alabama street. And if someone tests positive other bay area hiv aids service for covid19, they will receive information on benefits that organizations. There is still time to register and raise money so please get they can receive for not getting involved. Visit aids walk. Net or chicago paid while missing work. New at 11 00, many california Prison Inmates are getting time 415615walk. Shaved off their sentences due and tomorrow on good morning to covid19. America, shaggy performs because of the pandemic, creditearning programs have been shutdown, and now state officials wrote inmates today saying most are getting 12 weeks of time served. Inmates with serious rule violations or those sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or death row are ineligible. The outbreak in state prisons is having an impact on cal fire to fight fires. Dozens of inmates to work on hand crews are quarantined because of the virus. We are already in peak fire season. The state is now looking for more than 800 people to replace them. These are the critical workers doing that really hard grunt work, just doing the raking and getting down into the dirt and preparing the line for our firefighters. One change this year, i evacuated from a wildfire, the state may put you up at a hotel instead of a shelter. Tonight coronavirus cases are surging in at least 33 states and hospitalizations have hit record levels in at least ten of them. One of the hardesthit states, its a beautiful thing. Arizona, where one out of every superfast internet with an xfinity flex 4k streaming device included . Three people tested is positive. Abc News Reporter serene shaw even beautifuler. And now flex also comes with peacock. Ooh la la. This rare bird lets you stream tons of movies, has the story. Reporter its home to the shows, news, sports and more. Highest rate of infection. In arizona, scenes like these, and with flex, its all at your beck and call. 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My colleagues, liz kreutz, Julian Glover and i engaged dr. Anthony fauci with even experts focusing on problems and harsher suggestions in an Solutions Including a growing idea called alliship. Interview with 538s podcast saying some states should look at shutting down. Alliship is critical, not despite the guidelines and solely as a form of compassion the recommendations to open up and of sympathy, but actually carefully and prudently, some states skipped over those and what Kenneth Clark used to call just opened up too quickly. Racial empathy. Certainly florida i know, you it requires allies to look deeply to selfsacrifice, to know, i think jumped over a couple of checkpoints. Have generosity, and to actually reporter florida, according try to put themselves in the to the new york times, with an astonishing 1400 uptick in position of black, indigenous average daily covid cases people of color that are literally facing a war in this compared to who they reopened roughly two months ago. Country. Other panelists suggested patients facing intense physical that education and learning challenges and emotional ones. About past struggles for civil rights can help all of us build one of the worst feelings of a brighter future. You can watch this town hall and our other town halls on race and being there is seeing these coronavirus on abc7news. Com on patients fight for their lives the abc7 news app and anywhere and not having their families you stream. Near them. Please take time to watch those reporter some hospitals running out of places to even put those patients fighting for their lives. Texas Medical Center at 105 capacity. And texass governor saying the numbers will look worse going into next week. President trump, though, still painting a different picture than the data or his top Infectious Disease experts. We have among the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world. But as a country, when you compare us to other countries, i dont think you can say were doing great. I mean, were just not. Reporter abc news, los angeles. Sexual misconduct allegations confirmed at a south bay high school. What a new report reveals about decades of abuse. The search for missing glee actress tonight, the