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KPIX KPIX 5 News At Noon July 12, 2024

Cal fire said that several firefighters who were resting after fighting the glass fire were possibly exposed to carbon monoxide. They are getting checked at the hospital and as of right now there arent any details about how it happened or the conditions of the firefighters. We will keep you updated on this. Live look now at the white house. The president said he learned a lot about the coronavirus as a result of his diagnosis. The message he continues to project is, its not that bad. The white house doctor said that the president is reporting he has no coronavirus symptoms today but that doesnt mean the president is coronavirus free. We know that first week people can have symptoms that can be serious but they may be relatively mild than the second week when you suddenly get inflammation and thats where people can really quickly go south. Cbs news has learned officials are looking at options for the president to address the nation as early as today. The white house is a coronavirus hot spot with at least 18 infections among staff and recent guests. We have to assume that the president still is contagious, that he shedding virus. You arent considered free of the ability to infect someone else for about ten days after you develop symptoms. The president will continue coronavirus treatments at the white house and his doctors say he is not out of the woods yet. The president s team has not shared some key details about his condition. In a new poll, 23 of those surveyed said the president being positive makes them less likely to trust him to provide accurate information. 17 say it makes them more likely to trust the president. Cbs news, the white house. That same poll shows 21 say the president s positive test will make them more likely to wear a mask and maintain social distance. A federal Health Official said the white house has turned down offers from the cdc for help with Contact Tracing for coronavirus. A spokesman said the white house has established a robust Contact Tracing program led by the white house medical unit. This afternoon federal public Health Officials including dr. Fauci are meeting with leading researchers to discuss efforts to preserve the integrity around the development of vaccines. It comes as the New York Times reports the white house has blocked the fda from doing strict new federal guidelines for the emergency release of the vaccine. Those enhanced safety guidelines would almost guarantee no vaccine would be approved before the election. In ia statement the House Speaker called the move a dangerous act. She said in part the Trump Administration must respect science and stop muzzling medical experts. Last night the president said that the vaccines are coming. We are expecting an update on the States Coronavirus reopening plan and if any counties moving in to a less restrictive tier. We will bring that to you live. New numbers show a slight up tick in cases and deaths statewide. Almost all bay area counties in the red indicating a substantial amount of coronavirus cases. San francisco is the only county in the orange. Santa clara could soon join that group. If it does restaurants and churches will soon be allowed to reopen indoors with limited capacity. New, Oakland International is offering free rapid results, coronavirus tests to employees and the public. Emily turner was at the airport today to check out the testing facility. As the pandemic drags on longer and longer there are now more and more place that are taking a shorter and shorter amount of time to test you. Easy. They answered any questions i had, two seconds its done. The airport is just the latest location for Rapid Response coronavirus testing. Its free and open to everybody but its especially convenient for those looking to travel or those in the travel industry. We have been working with the port of oakland for months. They are have been one of our clients with our enterprise account clients and they have been treat partners and they saw the value in providing it to the Wider Community as well as for travel. Unlike city healths location in alameda its a drive through testing facility and unlike that alameda facility with its early, confusion and closures, the ceo and owner said they learned their lesson and are in much better shape. This will be a smoother event. We have outstanding partners we are working with here and i dont anticipate any trouble here. The first appointment was at 9 00 a. M. And they are all booked up for the first few days. Then on the 16th city health will be opening a free rapid test in the airport itself for travelers to hawaii making a great testing site for those who are coming, going or just staying put. My son and daughterinlaw are having a baby in the next, who knows, day, week, so we just want to be double sure. In oakland. Emily turner. Back in august afo was the first to launch rapid coronavirus testing. Too the fire watch now. Good news from the fire lines in the north bay. The glass fire burning in napa and sonoma is now 50 contained. Some evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings. So far the fire has burned nearly 67,000 acres. Thats more than 100 square miles. Breaking news from wall street. The dow is down 346 points after yesterdays big rally. Stocks are sliding after the president just minutes ago said the white house will stop negotiating a stimulus deal until after the election. The treasury secretary and House Speaker spoke yesterday for an hour but didnt reach a deal. The house passed a bill last week but republicans and the white house are looking for less costly legislation. Campaign 2020 in just about an hour, joe biden will campaign in pennsylvania. He sent his well wishes to President Trump on his recovery from coronavirus but also blasted the message he is sending to americans. What is this macho thing i wont wear a mask . Big deal. Does it hurt you . Be patriotic. Take care of yourself but take care of your neighbors. Today former first lady released a Closing Argument of sorts in support of biden. Joe will give working families a tax credit for child care. He will roll back those tax cuts for the rich and instead help Small Businesses and working families. He will lower the cost of prescription drugs and give every american access to Affordable Health coverage. She also slammed the president s handling of the pandemic calling it willful mismanagement. She reportedly taped the message before he announced his diagnosis. The president said he plans to attend the next debate with joe biden, tweeting today itll be great. Its scheduled for next thursday in miami which would be two weeks after the president first tested positive for. Cdc guidelines say people infected with coronavirus can remain contagious until ten days after the onset of symptoms. Tomorrow the Vice President and Kamala Harris square off in their debate at the university of utah. Each candidate will be tested for coronavirus. They will have a barrier between them and will be kept 12 feet apart. We will have coverage of the debate here on kpix5. It all starts at 6 00 tomorrow evening. New, the governor of florida is extending the Voter Registration deadline after the Online System crashed. Officials say it was hit with more than a million requests per hour before last nights deadline. Thats been extended to tonight. On the storm watch hurricane delta is gaining speed as it makes its way toward mexico and is now a category 4. It could bring winds up to 130 miles an hour. This video shows what it looked like. The forecasters worried it could hit resorts with waves up to nine feet. The hurricane could make landfall in the United States by friday. Space x just brushed off some recent failed attempts. A look at the companys successful launch today. With most colleges offering Online Learning courses can be taken anywhere. Coming up a look at some of the exotic places students are studying during the pandemic. Its still foggy on the golden gate bridge. Im taking that on shore flow and the next weather system that could bring rain chances. The full forecast coming up. And kpix is working to bring you the positive stories. You can check them out at kpix. Com together and you can send your ideas to together at cbs. Com. Taking california for a ride. Companies like uber, lyft, doordash. Breaking state employment laws for years. Now these multibilliondollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. To deny drivers the rights they deserve. No sick leave. No workers comp. No unemployment benefits. Vote no on the deceptive uber, lyft, doordash prop 22. One ride california doesnt want to take. 2, 1, 0. Ignition. Liftoff. Space x fired 60 more internet satellites in to orbit today. The 13th batch. They lifted off from Kennedy Space center after a two week delay because of bad weather. The heads of three major bay area Tech Companies will appear on capitol hill later this month. Facebooks ceo, as well as googles and twitter will testify on the 28th. They will be grilled over hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. With College Campuses shut down or only allowing a limited number of students during the pandemic millions are taking Classes Online. Some are taking that as an opportunity to transform their College Experience. Exercise among the trees. Nature walks in the woods and studying in the fresh air. A Company Called a place beyond has converted this camp into a college campus. Theres going to be weekend backpacking trips, white water rafting. She goes to college in california, her childhood friend is a sophomore in new york. When the coronavirus pushed their Classes Online they decided to come to arizonas Prescott National forest. There are three dozen students from more than 20 colleges nationwide. All were tested for coronavirus and have now formed a self contained environment. Even though you are kind of contained and in a bubble you dont feel restricted. Students across the country are looking for alternatives to logging on at home. This group of friends left new england to rent a condo in the rocky mountains. Hannah and her classmates found a house near the beach. Why did you have the idea to go someplace to do your fall semester in the first place . I thought, you know, why not take this time to go live with a group of friends somewhere . Have a different kind of College Experience while i can. This is the first one we are doing the pilot right now. Back in arizona the co founder of a place beyond is already looking to expand. We are hoping next spring to do a couple of sites. We are talking to folks in colorado. He believes this model of learning and living could become a popular option for College Students even after the pandemic ends. Cbs news. Lets get a check of the weather right now. Here is mary lee. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Today the last day this week of mild to warm temperatures before we start to cool it down as we head through the week with that stronger sea breeze kicking in. Here is your beautiful live look with the Treasure Island camera catching sunshine out there with some patchy fog and still dealing with foggy conditions along the coast and even right through the golden gate gap. Looking at a cool 59 degrees in downtown San Francisco. 63 in oakland. 70s for san jose and santa rosa and 80s for concord and for livermore. Checking air quality conditions, moderate air quality for most of the bay area though good air quality for San Francisco and redwood city. Unhealthy air, closer to the glass fire in the north bay. We still have that spare the area alert in effect for today. The air quality does get better starting tomorrow through the rest of the week with that stronger ocean breeze kicking in for us. For today, those two ridges of High Pressure keeping us warm and dry for now. As we look to tomorrow, the ridge of High Pressure will weaken and we are going to see that stronger sea breeze kicking in. As we look to the end of the week we will see more clouds, cooler temperatures, and rain chances by friday and for saturday. With that, we are looking at friday and saturday, the weather models not in great agreement on this. One weather model just shows wetter conditions and the other a little dryer. We will have a better idea as we get closer to it. We need the rain for sure. Checking our daytime highs across the bay area. Warming up inland in to the 80s and 90s around the bay. 60s and 70s and cool and cloudy along the coast. There we go with that extended forecast as we are looking at temperatures cooler on wednesday and then much cooler as we look to thursday in the 6os and in the 70s and there we go with the rain chances as we look to friday and for saturday. Back to you. All right. Thank you. We. We are taking a live look at a News Conference by dr. Gally talking about the tier system. There have been no tier changes as of yet for the bay area today. We are going to keep updated on this and give you updates as we get them. And many of us know of the next animal from cartoons. Real life tasmanian devils are in danger. Still ahead a big time help for them including a little star power. And kpix5 has a new app with 247 access to news and in the bay area, we believe in science. Traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. To wear a mask out in public around other people. Sure itll keep you healthy. But more importantly, i wont have to see your happy smiling face. Ugh. And if you dont want to wear a mask, ive just got one thing to tell you. Scram, go away. Ugh. Caring for each other because we are all in this together. So wear a mask and have a rotten day, will ya . Ugh. For the first time in nearly 3,000 years the tasmanian devil is back on main land australia. And hollywood stars were on hand. We will release them out in to the wild. Chris hemsworth helped release them. Conservationists have introduced 26 north of sydney over the last four months. They hope to boost the population after cancer wiped out nearly 90 of them. Today marks the first time in 3,000 years or there abouts that the devil has roamed main land forests and as an apex predator its important. They plan to release 40 more in the folk few years. Thats cool. They got help from thor. Cant beat that. You will want to get away . You you said that fast. Sorry. He does. You may want to check your wallet before you check in somewhere. Where california cities ranked when it comes to hotel costs and the top destination may surprise you. And today on the Drew Barrymore show, jane lynch also life coach jay sheady on the joy of missing out. Our home was burned to the ground in the tubbs fire. The flames, the ash, it was terrifying. Thousands of family homes are destroyed in wildfires. Families are forced to move and higher property taxes are a huge problem. Prop 19 limits taxes on wildfire victims so families can move without a tax penalty. Nineteen will help rebuild lives. Vote yes on 19. Todays tip of the day. Cauliflower day. This is naked purple cauliflowr. There is no wrap around it. A lot of it has the wrap. This is called the naked cauliflower. When you buy it the purple one, bright purple, very important all the way around. You see that. Turn it around and see here, no brown spots. Nice and clean. When you bring them home, in the fridge, right away. If you over cook the purple cauliflower you see in these different restaurants they are raw because if you over cook them some of that purple will start to bleed out and it becomes white. Just like blanch it or cook it al dente. Im your fresh grocer. It is great for us and always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. It goes with my shirt, doesnt it . It does. And my tie. At five the largest retail crime bust in california history. Inside look at the millions of dollars in stone goods recovered from thefts. Lets get a final check now of weather. Here is mary. All right. Taking you to the south bay. San jose right now its 74 degrees in san jose. We are looking at mild to warm temperatures today. That is going to change starting tomorrow with a big cooldown in store for us. Little cooler as we look to wednesday and by thursday we will be in the 60s and 70s across the area and friday and saturday there we go with the rain chances and we definitely and desperately need that rainfall as we look to the end of the week. Back to you. Sacramento is currently the most expensive city in the United States for hotel stays. According to a new survey from cheap hotels. Org the average price for the cheapest double room is 131 per night with a rate of 105 per night san jose is number 9. Los angeles is in the middle of the pack at number 26 and 88 a night. Further down on the list is San Francisco which is number 44 at 78 a night. Date night in San Francisco, i guess. And i guess maybe sacramento is the place to be. I dont know. Rent katie the truth is out, ridge. You did not send that text to carter ending your marriage to my sister. You couldnt do that because you love brooke too much. It was all quinn and shauna. Brooke what did you just say . Brooke you heard me, quinn. This ceremony isnt happening. Quinn like hell it isnt. Brooke i wont let i

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