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KGO ABC7 News 600AM July 12, 2024

Pearman and apple. Amy hollyfield has the details. Reporter look behind me, you can see police are still here on the scene. You are looking at them pippin and 105th. They have been here all night. It happened around pened arou night. And the chase carried into oakland where the driver crashed into a parked car. Officers say the driver then got out of the car and he had an assault style gun. An officer then shot him and the man died. The officer has been placed on administrative leave and the police and District Attorneys Office will investigate. They have not released any details about the man. They say that they did recover an assault weapon at the scene. It appears that they are wrapping up. Right now the traffic scanner team is working at the site. They have already pulled the Evidence Gathering Team out of here. So it looks like they are possibly wrapping up soon, but have not said when they will be able to reopen this area. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. And more than 5,000 undergrads now know that they will begin the new year online. Santa Clara University Just Announced that they will continue Distance Learning for now. All this week abc 7 news has been focusing on what back to School Looks Like as part of our mission to build a better bay area. And today were focusing on colleges. Lauren martinez is live on campus with the message from the universitys president. Reporter yeah, with six weeks to go, santa Clara University announced that they will begin courses primarily online for undergraduates. Father obrien, the president of scu, in a letter said that the state of california has not yet issued any up dated guidance to higher education, but recent dwrenkt differences have required k through 12 schools to begin their year online. Sme scu students and families have reached out to the school because they have experienced financial hardships from the pandemic and have a for assistance. Santa clara created a relief fund for them in a video message, father obrien said he understands how disappointing this decision is for the campus community. This uncertainty can be so overwhelming and creates anxious times for your families and for each of you. We were hoping and praying that we would be in a different situation in the bay area and california and in our country by now, but the data and the science show a different picture unfortunately. Now, they are joined in this decision by many other universities locally including the university of San Francisco, uc berkeley, and san jose state. Reporting live from santa Clara University, Lauren Martinez, abc 7 news. And teachers with the Mill Valley School district are pretty much doing the same thing. They just came up with an agreement in the School System after days of negotiating and protests, the Teachers Association and district agreed to Distance Learning and hybrid eventually. Teachers will get five days of extensive training and so the school year will start august 24. Teachers will have the option of either working from home or working in their empty classroom. And when in Person Instruction begins, class sizes will be limited to 15 students. On our website, we have an interactive map. Just click on a School District and it will show you their reopening plans. Were constantly updating the map and you can find it at abc7news. Com. At the live desk, the former Atlanta Police officer who the shot and killed Rayshard Brooks is suing the department over his firing. Garrett rolfe was fired june 13th, the day after he fatally shot brooks outside a wendys restaurant. He filed a lawsuit against the mayor and interim police chief saying it violated his Constitutional Rights and city code. He faces 11 charges including felony murder. Yesterday prosecutors asked a judge to revoke rolfes bond. They say he went on a vacation to florida without permission. Happening today, john burriss plans to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of vallejo and one of its officersoff the de over the sho man suspected of looting. Jo sean not a gun, in the waist of his pants. The Antioch School board will try to meet again tonight. They had to reschedule from last night because there was a disruption from protesters. The protesters are banging on the building. Protesters are upset because there is a plan that calls for no police on campuses. Antioch has received a grant to cover half the cost of School Resource officers for six campuses and so the board has to dcide whether to pay for the other half which would cost up to 378,000 annually. A pretty unusual find at a california airport. The useful items now stocked in vending machines. Also ahead, wear a mask, wash your paws. And here is a little more information on those record cold high temperatures. 69 in livermore, 66 in out the today. Anywhere from 4 to 15 degrees warmer. 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Low 60s at 10 00, hanging around the mid to upper 60s all afternoon. Well take a look at that warm weekend coming up next. Now lets find out about the morning commute. Good morning, everyone. Well start off with a live look showing off the bay bridge toll plaza. I just checked and the chp has not let us know that the met metering lights are on yet. And it is very light here at the toll plaza. Once you get on the original, it is busier. The chp has issued a high wind advisory for the bay bridge and the altamont pass. You can see we slow spots. Biggest one coming out of tracy this morning. But i want to bring you to is sunol, i was following a crash here earlier that had overturned. It is all clear, but because the chp had to run a traffic break, it is slow. Speeds are around 20 Miles Per Hour in the area. Albany to the maze, 6 minutes. Fremont to san jose, 14 minutes. Highway 101 to cupertino, 10 minutes. Los Angeles International airport is now selling ppe in the vending machines. Were talking about things like Hand Sanitizer, face coverings, gloves. The vending machines offer touchfr touc touchfree pavement options. And there is a shield to make sure you are protected. That is a Smart Business idea. Yeah. I mean, you cant put Hand Sanitizer in there. Im not mad at it. Me either. A warning about the work place and how coronavirus is spreading one room where doctors say you need to be careful. Plus you might think it is safer to see a doctor via telemedicine during this pandemic, but there is one age today marks a somber anniversary. Hiroshima. At a Memorial Service today, sush vif survivors and foreign dignitaries gathered to honor those killed. It has been 75 years since the u. S. Dropped atomic bombs. They urge World Leaders to continue to work toward nuclear disarmament. As more people head back to work, doctors are warning that they have seen transmission of the coronavirus in office break rooms. Doctors recommend distancing during your breaks. At whole foods, they allow only three people this the break room at one time. At oconnor hospital, only four can be in the break room and it is cleaned often. Doctors say we need to break some of our social break room habits. It is such a hard habit to break that we need that time together. But weve got to come up with more creative ways that ensures that both people dont have their masks off at the same time. Several people we talked to say microwaves where they work have been removed. The pandemic we know has changed a lot of things including the way that we visit our doctors. Telemedicine works great if a lot of people, but not for millions of seniors. A new study shows that nearly 40 of patients over 65 are not ready fo video kno h either upel the proble rge from difficulty in hearing to just tech issues. Researchers say 13 million seniors need help with virtual visits mainly because of inexperience with technology. And we know different activities have Different Levels of risk from play dates to riding the bus to going on vacation. You can find out what the experts think about each one of these by checking out this risk calculator. It is on abc7news. Com and the abc 7 news app. A team of tiny cute animals is helping spread the word about wearing your mask during this pandemic. It is the brainchild of maggie rudy, shes made free downloadable pandemic safety posters that read wear a mask, wash your paws. Started to get messages mostly from teachers and librarians saying please can you make a poster, id like to buy a poster for my kids, for my classroom. Rudys mice and friends artwork is already in demand and it is available in 33 different languages. Rudy says the poster is being downloaded around the world as the project continues to grow. That is sweet. Can we go back to one thing . I was thinking about how the older people have trouble using the phones for telemedicine, but there is so much online now like Church Services and all these things. Er cousins. How do i help them . And i really do not know because im not there to help them figure it out. So it is really tough. It is tough. We got my parents an ichls an i. And after frequent trial and error, we had them on zoom for my nieces twin Birthday Party and the other night they posted on facebook a boomerang. I dont know whats happening. What . Wow. That is encouraging. They can do it. They just need some practice. Love that. Well, mom will ask me how to do something and ill say call one of your grand children or let me go find them for you. That is amazing. Nice work there. Lets take a look at what is going onweatherwise. Notice the flags on the ferry building, barely moving. We are backing off the seabreeze, letting off the ax accelerator today. Drier air coming in and that means more sunshine and warmer temperatures. You go from a record 69 degrees, record coldhighre yesterday to 84 today. Warmest high this is weekend and then back to average early next week. Here is a look at the fog forecast and you can see many areas that didnt even see sunshine yesterday see it by noon. Clouds still along the coast and in the bay, but even the bay clears out for several hours and north bay coast will clear out this afternoon. So you can see a whole lot difference there. 76 to 81 in south bay. 70 to 76 on the peninsula. 60 to 63 along the peninsula coast. Upper 60s for downtown and south San Francisco. Even with the sunshine, north bay coast only around 60 to 61. But 78 to 86 in your valleys. Along the east bay shore, 70 at richmond, oakland 73, fremont 76. Inland no air conditioning needed today. 82 to 88. Tonight the consistent temperatures continue with mid50s to low 60s. Not quite as much in the way of cloud cover and drizzle. So about two degrees warmer tomorrow, temperatures above average especially inland. At the coast still free air conditioning, 60s there. And then well drop back to seasonal levels sunday, monday and tuesday. Morning clouds, afternoon sunshine every day in the accuweather 7 day forecast. Ever since yesterday ive been wondering is ginger zees power back on . And shes haanswer that and tel you what is coming up on gma. Still running on a generator along with 1. 5 million customers or so through connecticut, new york, new jersey, a lot of people still without power. And that includes me. Thank goodness we have that generator and i get to talk to august all of you. We have more severe storm for the midatlantic. Corona beingooke pushed to the limit, so were live at a Convention Center that is being treated as a field hospital. And then of course new york city cracking down on visitors from out of state. And the battle for schools, how do the kids get to the classroom on a bus. So what is being done to keep them safe. And plus the cost of quarantine ma o you may be noticing your bills go up when you stay home this much. Food, energy. And this morning we have some steps that you can take right now to safe. And then the very funny Sherri Shepherd will be joining us live, and she is looking for a man. Thats what she says. Dailies a deals and steals, everything coming up right here on gma. Excited to see that. And well lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att californias economic challenges are deepening. Frontline workers stretched too thin. Our nurses and medical professionals in a battle to save lives. Our schools, in a struggle to safely reopen, needing money for masks and ppe, and to ensure social distancing. And the costs to our economy, to our state budget . Mounting every day. We need to provide revenues now, to solve the problems we know are coming. Temperatures will be climbing. And the weekend, some 90s returning especially the north bay and east bay, 80s elsewhere inland and 60s and 70s around the bay. Some 80s trying to keep into hayward and redwood city by sunday. But look at those 90s and even 100s in the east bay and well up into the north bay around cloverdale and clear lake. Summer is coming back. A new report from the cdc says people are dying and going blind from drinking Hand Sanitizer. Yes, you heard that correctly. Health officials have been warning people for weeks about illegal Hand Sanitizers being sold and distributed in the u. S. They contain a toxic alcohol known as methanol. The cdc says in may and june, 15 cases of methanol poisoning within reported in arizona and new mexico. They drank tainted Hand Sanitizer. And many other deaths possibly not reported. Major League Baseball is now tightening covid19 safety protocols after outbreaks on the marlins and cardinals led to 21 games being postponed. Yesterday the league sent out a memo to teams outlining the changes. New protocols include mandating that players and staff wear face coverings at all times, including in dugouts and bullpens. Except for players on the field of play. Memo says that repeated or violators could be banned from the season. And pga championship is teeing off today. Rory mcilroy will play alongside tiger woods and justin thomas. Mcilroy says he knows that he will be tested this week. I think a test in all aspects. It is a fair golf course. It is not tricked up, it is all right there in front of you. I think maybe a little bit of a coincidence that the top players come here and win most of the times that things are played here. First round coverage available on espn plus app starting at 10 00 a. M. And then coverage begins on espn at 4 00 p. M. Many stores now implementing more generous return policies. At the beginning of the pandemic, several stores wouldnt even take returns until safety protocols could can be put in place. And now proper policies are in place, there is a big shift. Like cosmetic stores are giving you a year to return products, but other stores are averaging between 30 and 90 days. Probably double the amount of time you are normally given. Stores like walmart are still not taking instore returns. A spokesperson says returns have to be done online. And if you cant do it online, you have to wait until they start accepting instore returns once again. And i found it is pretty easy. Just print off the return label and drop it off and go. I have yet to success flfullo it. I just get aggravated and keep it. They like people like you. They do like me. Im like take it and give me my money back. Im so lazy. Next at 6 30, President Trumps promise to step in if Congress Fails to act as more than a Million People file for unemployment. Also we continue to follow breaking news this morning, a Police Pursuit ends in a deadly shooting. The dangerous situation officers say they encountered as that investigation continues. But what if you could startdo better than that . Like adapt. Discover. Deliver. In new ways. To new customers. What if you could come back stronger . Faster. Better. At comcast business, we want to help you not just bounce back. But bounce forward. Helpt with a powerful and reliable internet and voice solution at a great price. Call or go online today. We saw the earthquake grace in bold was offering a grant program. 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