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KRON KRON 4 News At 9am July 12, 2024

Bay by comparison. We still have heat advisory in place tells a formality of Solano County but were going to see some of those effects in Contra Costa County and probably napa counties as well into this afternoon expecting more round of temperatures in the 90s today, well try about 87 by 1 oclock by 4 to 89 but reaching 90s for highs well look at some of those locations for you coming up in a bit marty. All right dave thanks a lot. Lets get right to our top story this morning, the Oakland Unified School district has voted to eliminate its Police Department at the schools. The vote happened last night kron fours reyna harvey live in oakland. She has all the details on this rain. Marty good morning that decision by the board unanimous the board citing that there are other ways to go about implementing disciplined for their students on their various campuses were going to show you the moment that the decision actually came down. You can see Community Members reacting to the boards decision this group on your screen right now is the black organizing project. They were one of the groups responsible for calling for the Oakland Unified School district to redirect money spent on police into social services for students. Its called the george floyd resolution to eliminate the Oakland School Police Department background that the board you some of their statistics in making this decision and that resolution from 2015 2016 school year through the 2019 2020 school year. Black students accounted for 73 of arrest in city schools but just 26 of enrollment. Also in 5 years from 2013 to 2014 into the 2018 2019 school year the district spent million on its armed police force. Now lets hear from the organizers from the black organizing project along with the Oakland Unified School District Police chief. This is very historic for our members and for the people plan and we are really hoping that we can set a or what remove Police Free Schools looks like throughout the country calls are still going to be answered is high priority, although previous still going to be big and those out and if somebody from a school picks up the phone and called 9, 1, 1, one you now. The only difference is my officers wont pick up that dont freebies. Spot. Now the resolution directs the superintendent to tell the board by august 20th. How she will launch a communitydriven effort to revise the district safety plan. The board voted to get rid of the School Police by january one of the district wants to part ways by the end of the school year and a couple of things to know marty to we want to know where that money is going to go now that theyre cutting the funds from the school Police Department also the second thing how long this is going to take to implement and we just placed a call in to the Police Department to find out whats going to happen to those officers for now reporting here in oakland raider harvey kron 4 news all right dana, thanks a lot that live report well be waiting for any updates that you might uncover. Well the San Francisco Unified School District board also voted to remove police from school from Public School campuses under this resolution, the district will not renew its contract with the citys Police Department. Its also labeling it schools as sanctuaries spaces from Law Enforcement armed officers will not be allowed on School Grounds and the money that was previously used to pay Campus Police will instead be redirected towards Student Support services. And School Districts across the country are looking into removing police from their campuses as well state superintendent Tony Thurmond says his department will be speeding up research into the potential harm caused by Police Intervention in schools. Ive already seen data that shows in may cases when there police on campus. This results in more suspensions or rest of our students any particular africanamerican students. You know the students of color. Thurman says the data is Still Limited so the state will be implementing a threepronged approach first of all they are the establishment of a task force secondly analysis of data and research from that task force and 3rd establishing alternatives to keep School Campuses safe. The department of education plans to work with lawmakers, advocacy groups and Police Representatives to figure out the next steps. And new this morning, voters in california will be deciding in november whether colleges and universities can consider race in admitting students. The state banned affirmative action policies back in the mid 90s. But yesterday the state Senate Approved a move to appeal an amendment to the state constitution. That bans affirmative action policies. Now voters must vote whether or not they want to approve that before it becomes law. This comes during a time of nationwide demonstrations over Racial Injustice. The big story were following this thursday morning. Theres new research that projects nearly 180,000 people in the country could die from coronavirus by the first of october. Now this comes as the state of california just set a new record for the number of new virus cases in one single day. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in San Francisco. She has these grim details sarah. Im martie thats right the projection you just mentioned a 180,000 people. You know dying from the coronavirus that number is up from 50,000 thats up 58,000 from where were at right now so thats a significant amount of people who would die from the coronavirus by this october according to these productions, lets take a look at them so you can see the chart for yourself this is put out by university of washington showing again a production of 179,000 deaths by october 1st and remember these are projections created by their computer models which have closely been monitoring in referring since the beginning of the pandemic weve been showing you these and they do change at one point the chart showed a prediction of the death toll exceeding 200,000 people so it has gone down slightly but again it goes up and down is fluctuates right now in the u. S. Or death toll with the coronavirus stands again and 120,000 people according to their model in california 11,600 people are projected to die of the coronavirus by october. Thats about double the current number of deaths we have in california you can see on your screen right now we stand at 5,725 looking at the total number of cases in our state right now were at 195,925 and this includes or recent single day surge in cases of 7,000 cases of the deadly disease that we heard from governor Gavin Newsome earlier hes been pleading with californians to wear a mask with the news to a statewide face coverings order now lets hear from doctor fauci he comments on the state of california and the rise in cases. I dont think its anything that the state of california is doing wrong not its what the response of the to what the opening process is you dont really need to go back to lock down he need to pause and say wait a minute. Were starting to opening and things are going right what do we need to do to correct that you may need to stay where you are in impose a few more restrictions or maybe back up a little. And so its going to be something either the state decides and as weve heard from governor Gavin Newsome he said that if the numbers do continue to rise, then we may have to revert back to shutting down. Our economy and putting people back in that shelter in place order but of course that is to be determined also its up to you and i to wear or mass and San Francisco, its even stricter than most you Must Wear Masks within 30 feet of others and this is all to stop these numbers from rising, we looked at a lot of numbers us now those are all projections and what our state city and government leaders want is a storm do our part so we can stop those productions from becoming reality elam live here on polk street in San Francisco for saying not every Single Person wearing a mask and when i was on poke swells on fillmore street earlier saw just about everybody wearing one its really interesting marty some people wear their masks hanging from their here some people are their mass love revealing their nose and discovering their math their mouth so a lot of misuse of the mass make sure you cover your nose and her mouth. You have it around your entire face marty i dont know if you seen that yourself. Yeah i have and if you turn around and look at the family behind you looks like a dad and 2 children all of them wearing masks. Think about how cute is that yes they are setting a good example. They the role models for us sara thanks a lot for that live report from San Francisco, lets take a look at the latest numbers now in the bay area there are over 21,000 cases and over 540 deaths and were seeing the most cases in Alameda County with 5200 and a 100 infections. The virus though has taken the most lives in Santa Clara County which has 154 deaths weve broken all of this down by county and city you can find it online at kron 4 dot com. Now to the peninsula where San Mateo County supervisor david canada wants Governor Newsome to find people who do not wear a mask. He sent a letter to the governor are proposing a warning for the first offense. A 100 fine for the second offense, a 500 fine for the 3rd offense. Supervisor cannabis suggest the Community Service officers couldnt force the fines rather than Police Officers. In a statement he wrote quote, im seen too many people ignore this Simple Practice which is frankly putting the entire community at risk to this deadly disease. More than 5500 californians have died from this disease and just 3 months. If we want to truly save lives and we must all wear face coverings. Well dozens of cases have been linked to a nursing home in concord in the east bay, the state Health Department says 75 patients and Staff Members at the san miguel de le a nursing home has tested positive for the virus. 14 patients and at least one caregiver have died because of covid19 we have reached out to the nursing home to try and get more details and were waiting to hear back. Now developing story in the east bay where one person is dead following an overnight fight at a Grocery Store in antioch it happened about 10 oclock last night at the luckys Grocery Store on contra loma boulevard. Police say that a store employee caught the man who was trying to steal from the Grocery Store when the worker confronted the man the man attacked during the fight the attacker stopped breathing and died at the scene. Still not clear this morning if he died as a result of the fight or another medical condition. The store worker was taken to the hospital to be treated for the injuries he received during that fight. Still ahead this morning calls to End Police Brutality in the bay area were going to take you to a rally for police from. That was prompted by a controversial facebook com. And Law Enforcement agencies in the east bay teaming up to try to put an end to the recent rash of fireworks stand. And after the break a woman caught on camera in the south bay intentionally coughing on a child. Well that woman works for a bay area School District will find out how the district is responding. Good morning, welcome back to kron 00 04am morning news take a live look outside Golden Gate Bridge right now were still flown little bit of fog there but really nothing to worry about days far has the forecast today marty good morning, good morning everybody see some kind of a similar street now the shot from timber on. There you can see quite a bit of fog. Thats still kind of lingering around a little bit at this hour you saw the golden gate up close and personal we see the southern tower nice even the northern tower off to the distance but still that fog remains also acting as a cooling mechanism to slowing down or ascension 71 for now at this hour, but most of the readings are a mixture of 50s and 60s over the journal bay area. Lots of green still on the board here as well but a warm up this afternoon is in the cards now 2 different types of moisture at work here the low level moisture is this fog clears out along monterey bay too. And later on because of the slow up to the north will be the fire up of some showers look at that right there boom into the afternoon. And it looks like well see a little bit again tomorrow but that will be far to the south though again the mechanism of this low. More locally whats going to do is help drive a little bit of an on shore wind for us tonight. Bring back this marine layer again, so the heat spike burns on its another heat advisory day for Solano County for weeks and its hot inland. Warm for the bay now were talking 80s for the bay 90s happening inland but not everybody there will be in the 90s and then for this weekend cooling quickly the big day to look out for a sunday, a nice big drop out of the 80s temporarily early certainly the 90s will be wiped off the map entirely today were talking 6 to 7 San Francisco 74 for oakland, 88 meanwhile for san jose. So what the south bay looks like theyre going to stay out of 90s territory for today, heres a look at the wider picture, although in the far east bay reaches will be in the well in the 90s more 80s up here to the north bay tuna well zoom in on this a little bit more in your 4 zone forecast coming up in a bit marty. Sounds good dave see in a couple minutes to get to a developing story were following this thursday morning. A woman accused of intentionally coughing on a baby in the south bay works for a bay area School District. It happened at yogurtland on cottle road in San Jose Police say the coughing woman was apparently upset that the mom was not following proper social distancing guidelines as she waited for her order. So she coughed on the on the womans baby, the oak grove School District in san jose released a statement saying its aware of the incident allegedly involving one of their employees. The statement also says that the unidentified employees currently off work and not providing services to students. District also says its cooperating with the san jose Police Department. In the east Bay Hospitals are seen an increase in covid19 patients this week compared to last week. John muir health and walnut creek unconquered have already set aside a unit on their campuses to care for an influx of covid19 patients. 9 nick mica says the medical director of Clinical Operations and says that his hospitals are safe and theyre prepared for a surge in cases, hes expecting that surge around labor day. Planning for capacity of 4 its if he just wants you to shun is and were nowhere near or standard capacity much less and forcing a point that he can keep her parents are little one safe the store and thats what we have some things are not. And theres new data from Contra Costa County Health Services that shows more than 400 new cases have been reported in the past week. And thats nearly the double double the number of new cases reported the week before that. New this morning, dozens of secret Service Agents will be quarantine following president trumps rally to president trumps rally in tulsa oklahoma over the weekend. Thats according to a Law Enforcement official who described the quarantine as a precaution. Now according to firefighters, saturdays rally packed a little over 6,000 people into that arena. But face masks and social distancing were not required. A trump staffers who helped set up the event have tested positive for the coronavirus as did 2 secret Service Agents, the secret service says this quarantine does not impact its ability to fulfill all of its students. Well if you have any plans to go to hawaii. Soon you will be allowed to get around the islands as soon as you land if you test negative for covid19. Why is governor announced a new pre travel Testing Program that will start on august 1st travelers who test negative will not have to quarantine for 14 days. But they will have to

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