Now i know ive been in a location where someone has tested positive. Reporter this safeway employee said the managers failed to tell the staff in a timely manner and only confirmed the covid19 case after being confronted by a group of employees who heard it from the infected person. Reporter did the manager say anything about not telling other employees or keeping it quiet . Im not supposed to tell. Reporter the manager said that. Yes. Reporter she said many have still not heard about it from managers. They have to rely on the rumor mill to make important decisions. Reporter i reached the store manager by phone but she hung up on me and safeway spokesperson wendy did not agree to an oncamera interview but emailed, we have confirm that employees have tested positive and we are not aware of any manager telling employees to keep quiet. They are on paid quarantine leave adding, throughout this pandemic, the health and safety of everyone who walks through our doors has been our top priority. United food and commercial workers represents many safeway employees and the president of the political article tells me, informing employees is essential. The employees need to know, we believe the unit needs to know, we believe the Public Health departments needs to know. There needs to be proper notification so this can be contact tracing. Im number one on our agenda. Reporter it would make it a law the Companies Must provide written notice of a positive case to employees and their union within 24 hours. Reported to state and hoke Health Departments and cal osha, failing to report would be a misdemeanor crime, punishable by a 10,000 fine. The number of covid cases reported by any work place would be made public. A variety of trade groups oppose it because of being overly vague. But the sponsor of the bill tells me, it is necessary to protect workers. Especially those on the front line. It cannot be one industry or one particular group. Every single employee has a right to know theyve been exposed so they can protect themselves, the family and the public. Reporter the bill passed 41 late this afternoon. It has one more hearing before going to the governors desk. Ill have more on important links on this issue at abc7news. Com. For the iteam, dan noyes. As we work to build a better bay area, when will we get a Coronavirus Vaccine . Experts say it could be months or more than a year away. In that time more surges are expected. A top epidemiologist says california should brace for what hes calling a third wave. Liz is live with the details. Reporter dr. Ruther foerds spoke to reporters today and he was pretty blunt. He said it is pretty much inevitable that we will see a third wave or surge before we get a vaccine, a vaccine well be lucky to get by the end of the year. Brace for yet another wave of coronavirus. Thats the message from dr. George rutherford, the top epidemiologist. I dont think well get back to a true baseline. Were really at the end of a second wave. Well see it go back down a little bit before it goes back up again. Reporter some experts say california has never made it out of the first wave, he said he sees these surges as waves. Given how widespread the virus is, it is inevitable we will see a third one. Specially as we start letting adolescents into school. I think well start seeing bounces from that. Reporter the biggest question marshall, when will we get a vaccine . There are more than 100 in development around the world, including major trials in the u. S. This doctor said it is really hard to say when any of these might be ready. The ones farthest along are just now enrolling participant in phase three trials. Depending on how fast they can deliver them to the participant and the frequency where they reside and circulate, those will determine when we know if the vaccine protects humans from disease. Reporter dr. Fauci said a vaccine could come by the end of the year. Dr. Ernest believes thats the best case scenario. It is certainly on the optimistic he said of the spectrum. Reporter the worst case, 2022. I think it will be sooner than that. It is easy to say, lets split the difference somewhere between dr. Faucis optimism and the vaccine trials conservative estimate. Reporter and of course, there are also ethical consideration thats may in. Who will be the first to get a vaccine . You know, if it does to go medical and other essential workers first, thats about 12 million people. So the doctor is saying some people will have to be prioritized even within that. It is quite the challenge. Abc7 news. Still a hlong way to go. Lets turn now to california. The state acknowledges this is a problem with the data. These are the latest numbers as reported by the state department of health. The number of new cases is well below average and the test positivity race, the percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive is much lower than weve seen for a long time. Those numbers may not be accurate due to underreporting. Hospitalizations are also below average. The number of deaths is near a record high. More than 200 people lost their lives in the past 24 hours. So with that as a back drop, with deaths on the rise, local Health Officials are raising serious concerns about the discrepancies in the states data reporting system. Reporter tonight growing concerns after officials discovered a glitch with cal ready, the states covid19 reporting system. Were back to feeling blind. We dont know how the epidemic is trending. Reporter a frank assess many from the county Health Office here explained why that data from the state is so creghn economies including businesses and schools. We are very anxious for this issue to get resolved. We speck that all these numbers will go up to what extent, we dont know. Reporter so far the governor hand said much about the problem. However, dr. Mark galley, the states top health official, shared this during a reason briefing. There is a specific component that feeds information from labs to both the state system and the local Public Health system that may actually be the place where data is getting stuck. Reporter for now the state doesnt believe the number of deaths or hospitalizations are impacted precipitation those stats are reported separately. In santa clara company, the two categories appear to be steady. But Health Officials say cases are on the rise among people under the age of thrive. While they themselves are at much lower risk of dying, or suffering severe complications from sars covid 2 infection, they are certainly capable of spreading the disease to people in their family or others that they come into contact with. Reporter the push to wear face coverings, more important than ever before. For those who choose not to follow the rules it should not feel right. It should feel like being in a car without a seatbelt. You must wear your face coverings any time youre outside your home. Reporter some suggesting that those in multigenerational households consider taking extra precaution even inside their homes. Either a separate room, or mask wearing by members of the family, for example, that might be out of the house more doing essential work. That would add protection for vulnerable family members. Reporter covid19 still very much a threat and widely sirg lating in our community. Abc7 news. Alameda county has the most cases of any bay area county and the highest concentration is in oakland. Today we asked the oakland mayor libby schaaf about what is being done to reduce we have tried to be compassionate. We began enforcing against illegal vending this weekend. We discovered vendors from out of our area advertising online they would be selling cocktails at lake merit. Thats not cool. For people to profit at the expense of Public Health deserves enforcement and fines. They want to have a safe place to do business as well as encourage people to shop online. Stun state lawmakers sent a letter to Governor Newsom asking for immediate reforms at the develop many department. The letter says as californians wait for answers from edd, they have demeted their life savings, have gone into extreme debt and panic as they figure out how to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. The governor appointed a strike team. You can see the stories that Michael Finney has done by going toabc7news. Com. San francisco is paying for the homeless to live in hotels during the pandemic. Next, live to talk about what happened in one of those hotel rooms that required an emergency response. Im wayne freedman. Do you see that hotel behind me . The county is considering buying and it turning it into a homeless shelter. We have a weekend warmup for spending a perfectly reasonable amount of time on the couch with tacos from grubhub . Rewarded get a free delivery perk when you order. [group] grubhub. For people with Heart Failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. Entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. The most serious side effects are angioedema, low Blood Pressure kidney problems, or high blood potassium. Ask your doctor about entresto. The latest numbers show Sonoma County has almost 3,000 Homeless People. Timing shelter for them has proven difficult. But now there is a solution, putting them up in. Reporter in the quiet town, the news caught everyone by surprise. Even kelly who runs a coffee house right next door to ground zero. The first reaction was muir shock. Reporter that they might be filled with the homeless. Sonoma county is considering buying the place and turning it into a shelter. Fundamentally, i think this is about stepping up and saying yes to reporter she will not hear the words not in my backyard coming from her. Homeless people are fundamentally people. Reporter it would tap into the 1. 3 billion set aside by the state of california to help cities and counties by turn key ready hotels, motels and apartments for Homeless People in need. And Sonoma County does have a problem. He wish they would have contacted the people who work here as well as the Property Owners and ye th w ce. Rorr ot that kelly or others nearby are completely opposed. Sebastopol is a haven for for compassionate people. Reporter their major concern, what kind of homeless will be living next door in. Definitely a threat. You dont know. Reporter the county says no drug addicts, no violent people. They would be the hand picked most vulnerable homeless over age 65. That sits better most locals. You want homeless seniors on the street . Reporter the county continues formal discussions tomorrow. The informal discussions ongoing. I wouldnt want a homeless shelter right next to where i live but i think it is great here. Reporter abc7 news. Police and fire responded for what was initially reported as a hazmat situation. Phil wrote in his column, it was actually an illegal meth lab cooked up by some motel residents. It is one of dozens being released to provide the homeless somewhere to she will in place during the pandemic. And phil joins us live. Do you think maybe they had a clue that Something Like the could happen . They were braced for the possible idea of drug useful but drug manufacturing . That was not on the idea list at all. It underscores, if youre going to take people off the streets, sometimes they bring the street with them. In San Francisco, some 2500 people have been moved from tents to hotels during the viral epidemic. As part of a health issue and a way to get them off the streets and sidewalks. Sometimes they bring their challenges, addictions and challenges with them. This was a case where they not only brought with it them. They turned it into a whole new idea. The idea of a meth lab set up in one of these things, and there are a lot of questions. How could it get that far . Theres supposed to be room checks and wellness chegs. This is not supposed to be discovered with smoke and chemical smells start coming out of the room and alert everybody around the neighborhood. Yeah. There will be an investigation, no doubt. And of course, we should point out. Meth labs are very dangerous. They can explode. There are still a lot of tents out on city streets. So it didnt alleviate the problem. Some of them went into sanctioned sleeping areas which were parking lots. Some of the surrounding bay area counties cratered with the shutdown. We had huge numbers of hotel rooms that were available. Te others, they said well take people who need to be quarantined off the streets. That grew into the idea of taking homeless off and putting them into hotels as the first step toward a longer solution which would be to put them in a assume advised housing. The problem is weve all known, we talked about while trying to build a better bay area. Building new housing is often a difficult, expensive and long time consuming project. As wayne just showed us, Something Like a hotel, you turn it over. You take lock. You open it up. You dont have the hearings, the zoning, you just go in and set it up. A very tempting short gap solution. All right. So if there isnt much of a solution than a hole, what will happen as the hotels begin to need to go back to other people when the pandemic subsides . What will happen then . Well, if San Francisco has its ways and these other counties have their ways, some of them will buy the hotels. It is not necessarily these hotels will open up and tourist theres come flocking in. Some might lease them. With the help of federal money and new tax dollars, theyre trying to pass some initiatives, the city wants the money to key them in the hotels until they get that next phase of building done and eventually be housing 1,200, 12,500, in which case youll be paying a long time for it. Thats just the way it goes. This is one they know we might come out of pandemic. 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This is my grand daughter audrey who is my weather assistant today. Hi, audrey. Say hi. She went over to her other grandfathers house. What did you pick over there . This zucchini. Am Award Winning zucchini, right . Why . Yes. And Award Winning zucchini. And you put a face on it . A hat on it . And you can poke that. And there is a hat on it because it is its birthday. Okay. Stay with me while do i the weathr, okay . Yeah. It was cool today, was not it . And right now you can see how much cooler it is than yesterday. Its about 4 to 11 degrees cooler in most places than this time yesterday. Gusts up to 29 to 30 miles an hour. Heres the view across the embarcadero. Mountain view, half moon bay. 73 degrees. On we go to another live view from the golden gate. 68 at petaluma. 71, napa, 73, fairfield. 68, concord. Cloudy, damp and breezy tomorrow morning. The warming trend begins tomorrow and well have a seasonal warmup over the weekend. So lets move along and take a look. What does damp mean . Damp means kind of wet and dreary. Oh, yeah. Drippy. Droppy. Well see some showers, some light showers and light drizzle developing. Mainly along the coast and then out over the bay as well. Lots of clouds and fog. Tomorrow afternoon well see sunny skies inland and over the bay. The clouds will linger over the coastline. Overnight temperatures will be in the upper 50s. Tomorrow well have soinl skies over the bay and inland by afternoon. Well have breezy conditions once again. High temperatures ranging from low 60s at the coast to low to mid 70s at the bay to upper 80s inland. It is getting warmer, audrey its getting warmer. High temperatures to about 90. Mid 90s around the inland areas on saturday and sunday. Up to around 80 at the shoreline. You just helped me do the weather. How about . Okay. This is a zucchini made out of powdered sugar why dont you say back to dan and ama. But you talked about sorbet. Ill tell but that hear. I think she wants dinner. 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