Covid19 screaming at work and at home they keep to themselves. We need to be one community to make iten repe worhat guy bec me prompting the countys Public Health officer to release a letter of warning. Many, many of our infections are related to fairly small gatherings of family and friends. Birthday parties, picnics, eating at restaurants with mixed households without the basic precautions being taken. It infuriates me. Were trying to bring down the curve and people are going out and not taking it seriously. Have a Virtual Birthday party. Right . If you feel the need to have that sort of social connection, do it virtually. Reporter San Mateo County has been on high alert since june 29 when the positive rate exceeded 100. The countys Public Health officials have been asking the statement to reconsider their metrics. Were saying look at the deaths. They havent increased. Sometimes silence is golden. They may be taking that into consideration. Reporter the tracing is at nursing homes. They home the state recognizes those efforts. What else is san mateo copy doing to stay off the watch list . Reporter well, the supervisor said he will be introducing legislation in august that would lobby fines for these restaurants. Heres whats harder to police. You dont know if any of these diners are mixing households so theyre working on staying in your social bubble. Chris reyes. Abc news. Santa clara county is on the watch list and were now learning the white house is monitoring san jose as one of a dozen nationwide coronavirus hot spots. Local leaders say they were not informed. The federal government needs to do a better job of creating uniformity when it comes to best practices. Thats been very difficult for us in this second phase of this emerging surge. We havent even gotten through the first surge yet. The county has been working to ramp up testing and to encourage social distancing and proper hijaygiene. This comes as more people between the ages of 18 and 34 are being diagnosed in coronavirus county. With cases still surging in california, there are some lawmakers who would like to see the state lock down again. Steve dmaser compared to it fighting another potentially deadly disease. We have a cancer in our body. You cant solve it by putting a band aid on paniky finger. You have to take the chemo and the tough medicine. It didnt work before. We open too soon and the question is, have we learned from that where we can close down more effectively and stamp the virus out so we go get our lives back sooner rather than hear. When asked about the potential damage to Small Businesses, he said he understands the hardship but squashing the virus would help them open faster. You can check out where your county stands on abc7news. Com. See not only how long each county has been on the list but why the cdc is keeping a look at the numbers. For the second day, a record, 159 deaths bringing the toll to 8186. Cases rose but not by a record amount. Fewer than 7,000 patients are hospitalized. Thats down slightly from a record set this being. Our test positivity rate, a key gauge. Both the seven day and the 14day averages are below 8 which is the goal but they have been rising which is a concern. Everyone is vulnerable to coronavirus to some degree. But one degree is being hit much harder than others. Melanie woodrow is live with that story. Reporter exactly. The governor says the Latin X Community is being disproportionately impacted and one of the reasons may be the jobs the members of the community hold. Governor newsom breaking down the numbers looking more closely at who exactly is getting covid19 will he says it is californias essential workers. Who are these essential workers . Front line workers, farm workers, construction laborers, cooks, cashiers and janitors to name a few. This graph shows it by ethnicity. Green represents the Latin X Community. Thats the community that increasingly is being impacted. The spread of the virus and the mortality. Reporter he says the black and asian communities make up the majority of certain sectors of our economy. Also considered essential during covid19. He wants to make sure employers are supporting those workers and encouraging them to stay home if needed. People feeling sick, people that may be sick. We dont want them going to work and infecting other people. Reporter the governor highlighting the 34 california counties on the mob, to list for three or more days for metrics like case rate, hospitalizations, icu beds and ventilators. In order to get off this list, counties must be within their designated threshold for all metrics for three days. The governor recalleded californian whats they can do. Wear a mask, socially distance and wash your hands. Give us more information about the governors specific guidance to employers for reopening. Absolutely. He introduced what he called at this a play book or a handbook for those employers. It outlines steps they can take. Both high risk places of employment and some lower risk ones. Especially when the stayathome order comes to an ends. Thank you. Another met pick we keep an eye on is called the reffective number. How many other people one sick person infects. Keeping that number under one is the goal, as explained by the health and Human Services secretary. When you drop below one, youre dropping your number of cases. It varies from. 76 in yellow to 1. 43, which you see there in pink. In the bay area, only two counties have a number low enough to indicate the spread of cyrus is likely stable. Thats alameda and marin counties. All other counties in the bay area are at a level where coronavirus is likely increasing. Sonoma is the highest with an reffective number of 1. 26. Research into an old drug in berkeley has led to the discovery that it seems to stop the covid19 virus from replicating. David louie says it is heading to Clinical Trials soon. Reporter the drug has been around for 50 years. It has been used to treat tape room but a research has been in berkeley believes it could be an effective terrell for coronavirus. It prevents the virus from replicating. It doesnt prevent entry into the cell but once it does, it is unable to replicate. Reporter a team says 25 others enlisted during the pandemic have discovered that it also has antiinflammatory properties which could help with the respiratory stress on a patients lungs. They are also working to determine the right size tablet. The virus can make it difficult to swallow. This drug was a chewable tablet. A a therapeutics had been looking at it as a contuldnntr ceptive gel. Something would not only work as a treatment but also as a pre exposure prophylactic. Reporter they are using on it 440 patients. The only test underway is in egypt. Much like how tamiflu works. If you can use it early enough, thats how you can use it. Reporter this has been used safely in the past by adults and children. David whoey, abc7 news. Actor and director mel gibson spent a week in a los angeles hospital in april after testing positive for covid19. A spokesman is just revealing the details. He said the 64yearold experienced a complete recovery after being treated with the antiviral drug remdesivir. Gibson has since tested numerous for coronavirus numerous times. Im dan noyes from the iteam coming up. Billions of dollars have gone to Small Business because of the pandemic. Did a south bay man get millions he did not deserve . Reporter im Wayne Freedman with an indoor gym that has moved outside. Is it enough . Thats coming up. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Summer heat people were afraid i was contagious. I felt gross. 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To address that, the Small Business administration is handing out billions of dollars in loans to help Companies Pay their employees to stay afloat. The sba tells abc7 news iteam, they are investigating many reports of possible fraud. A story youll see only on abc7 news tonight. Dan noyes is live with the story. Dan . Reporter dan, the sba had to get this money out fast to keep these companies afloat. Now their oversight could have been more stringent. We asked, did a south bay man get millions he did not deserve . Reporter its been only four months since President Trump signed the cares act. That set up the Paycheck Protection Program and 5 million Small Businesses have already received more than half a trillion dollars in low interest loans that may be forgiven. The ppp program is meant to keep employees on pay roll while the businesses are impacted by covid19. Reporter so its our tax dollars. Thats our tax dollars. Reporter the Small Business administration tells me so much money went out the door so quickly, that provided an opportunity for possible fraud. Some abc7 viewers checked the hiss of businesses who received ppp hones and contacted me with questions about an milkant from the south bay who used 88 in his Company Names. 88 cloud computing, 88 enterprise services, 88 invest many empire, 88 ventureempire, u he received 1 million for each of the businesses. I randal the Company Names you this the secretary of States Office and they all come back to 39yearold, this is his picture from linkedin. I reached him by telephone and he told me his businesses are real. I asked for an on camera interview. He said he would have to check with his secretary. He said he has 48 employees. When i asked to see his operation, he hung up. I ran the address for the businesses and it turns out it is his mothers house in campbell. I stopped by several times and never found anyone home. I repeatedly called him. This is dan noyes from channel 7. I also found people lounging on a couch in hisrage. Ds house . Yeah. Is he here . Reporter i also walked up the driveway at his saratoga home. I didnt find him. Who are you . Reporter i work at channel 7. Im daniel noyes. Why do you need him . Reporter im doing a story on him. I never heard back from him. Records show he formed those four companies in the past couple months, well after the pandemic started and that would violate ppp guidelines. It was for businesses already in business before covid19. Reporter miriam explains the sba garnl hes the the loans but it is up to banks and lending institutions to process the applications and review a businesss financials. Three of the online lenders he used, fundbox, harvest and lendistory did not return my calls for comment. Obviously is the have the sba takes it seriously and any time of fraud and abuse will not be tolerated. Reporter they have formed a ppp fraud working group. Theyve opened nearly one hundred investigations with more than 42 million inotenti frau the sba tells me that tran was on their radar before i called. For the iteam, abc7 news. We know you will. Thank you. Nflt education is a big part of building a better bay area. Oakland Unified School District has released think plan for online distance learning. The first four weeks will be dedicated to orrenations. Class size theres remain the same with attendance taken daily. School staff will follow up if a student misses class. Teaching will be done with the combination of a whole class group and smaller individual groups and lessons will be done through zoom meetings. There will be pre recorded lessons and other work that will need to be done independently. From education to the economy, another part of building a better bay area. Gyms are among businesses hit hard. Closed for months, often unable to reopen. Heres someone with a novel solution but it still may not succeed. Youre killing it reporter for workout jumpingies, this is a sight for soar eyes. A jim filled with sweating people and with covid19 all around us. People drive down the road. Oh, look. Theyre open. Reporter so take a look inside at this empty room with under used equipment and youll understand why adam who owns three sonoma fit gyms has come to his wits end. Im so in the red. I dont know how much longer ive got. The bills just keep coming. Reporter since the pandemic hit, this workout has been hit for a grand total of two weeks. Membership has dropped from 4,200 people the 2,700 people. And not just for fear of their health. My life has changed. I lost my job. Im working from home. Reporter adam came here from germany at 22 years old to build an American Dream. It succeeded until covid19 came along. The same spirit that built his business prompted adam to fight back in pet loom did a by creating this outside space and exercise deck. While students count reps here, Staff Members like jennifer count days as in how many more do they have . I dont know what were going to do. I think we just keep adapting as best we can. But there is only so much you can do before its just unsustainable. Its a guessing game. Do i put in a deck . Or should i not put in a deck in what should i do . What is the right move . Even our local officials dont know what will happen next. Do you blame local, federal or state . All of it. For a Small Business owner, watching his American Dream failing, and seemingly powerless to stop it. Its gone. All of it. Everything that ive built. Reporter in petaluma. Abc7 news. A lot of people are wondering how risky is Something Like going to the gym, especially compared to getting a hair cut ortega bus . You can test your knowledge with our risk quiz. Take a moment to check that out when you can and stay with us. More to come. Were expecting warm weather this hi, im pat and im 75 years old. 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Thats what brought those temperatures down today. Heres a look at a live picture from our exploratorium camera. Certainly moving that along as we look across the bay. 58 in the city. You need a sweat ferer if your stepping out. And heres a lovely view of. Deepening marine hair from our east bay hills camera. 69 in santa rosa. A live look from our live doppler 7 perspective. We have that marine layer near the coast. It will continue to move as we head toward tomorrow morning. And in sierra nevada, we saw some thunderstorms developing. Luckily, they were dropping rain and well see the potential for showers and thunderstorms in the tahoe area. Sunshine from our san jose camera. Heres a look at the forecast. Gusty winds through this evening. Were looking at a combination of fog, low clouds, and warmer weather for the upcoming weekend. 7 00 tom, you see where the fog is along the bay. 11 30 near the cloip. Well be seeing some spotty drizzle and that goes into the morning hours. 7 00 a. M. , even though it starts out gray for many areas, watch what happens. The fog just pulls back to the coastline and it will clear for sunshine as High Pressure from the Desert Southwest builds in. In the morning, make sure you have the extra layer. It will start out cool. Low to upper 50s. Youre looking at temperatures in the mid 80s in los gatos, san jose. 81 in milpitamilpitas, the penia really nice day. 81, mountain view. 63 in pacifica with lingering fog. Daly city, 60 degrees. Down San Francisco, 67. In the north bay, you will see the micro climates. 90s around cloverdale. 60 degrees at bodega bay. It will be mild and sunny in the east bay. 74, oakland, 79 in union city. Inland areas, this is where youll find the warm. 89, pleasanton, 92 in antio