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KRON KRON 4 News At 6pm July 12, 2024

Homes the way to their set up. Are just tender boxes for this kind of Infectious Disease that mcguinness with california advocates for nursing home reform. Says its a tragic but all too common story. How you can isolate and quarantine people is beyond comprehension when youve got staff coming in and out the city sometimes working at another facility because they dont make a living wage and the one. In a statement manorcare says earlier this year they began monitoring for symptoms at the walnut Creek Facility and in march they eliminated Group Activities had universal masking for employees and eliminated most visitors except for end of life reasons Going Forward theyre restricting new admissions taking regular symptom and temperature checks and increasing sanitizing and cleaning. Theyve also created an airborne Isolation Unit to better treat highrisk patients and to protect other residents and employees. Those here at the facility tell us that employees who are testing positive or self quarantining at this point everybody inside has been tested. In the meantime the state has sent a strike force here to help with infections. And those they want to try and keep the affection away from live in walnut creek dan kerman kron 4 news. Stand in the last 24 hours california is now reporting more than 9200 new cases of coronavirus another 61 people have died. This means the total number of covid19 cases in our state has now surpassed 400,000 and 7800 people have died. How schools asians are also trending upwards and the rate of positive tests over the last 2 weeks has climbed to 7. 4 here in the bay area, 710 people have died due to covid19 and there have been more than 41,000 cases overall today u c berkeley says it will begin the fall semester with full Remote Learning the semester is set to start on august 26 University Leaders say theyre working on plans to implement hybrid another book other types of flexible scheduling in accordance with Public Health conditions if approved in Person Instruction would return later in the semester. But students would have the option to attend classes in person. Most california schools have announced plans to close campuses to start the Academic Year in berkeley, so far there have been more than 300 coronavirus cases and 2 people have died. As coronavirus cases climb across the bay area officials with Santa Clara County say theyre being flooded with calls about people violating Health Orders trying to understand these always changing Health Orders can be frustrating and actually enforcing them is proving to be a challenge kron fours rob fladeboe has the very latest. Were getting calls from our community there are best eyes and ears right now Santa Clara County deputy d a Angela Alvarado heads up a Team Investigating complaints about businesses and people as they cope with the worsening Public Health crisis allegedly in violation of county Health Orders for example a lot of different people are saying how did you find out that we had this big neighborhood block party. Well because our neighbors are very concerned that youre posing a health risk as of today, the hotline has received 9700 complaints leading to 50 citations complaints mostly about private parties religious gatherings retail bars restaurants hair and nail salons among others sometimes well see situations where a nightclub will look like its closer restaurant will look like its close and then magically 10 oclock like Cinderella Community members will call in and say theres a line or were seeing people gathering in front of this business whats going on investigators have visited at least a 1000 businesses and as you might guess many of the Complaint Center on masks or the lack of them people not wearing a mask correctly people not you know take having on hang off their ear. And then some restaurants, not even having masks their employees aided by Law Enforcement in some cases, many complaints are the result of confusion about the latest case numbers. And the ever changing Health Orders most though are resolved through outreach and education and weve had so many increase from just people in our community saying can you tell me how i can proceed. Im a salon owner can i really want to be clear. Heres another look at that email hotline, its called the Health Referral at dia odot sec gov dot org. Well ball, 50 citations have been issued none has resulted in charges so far. Because once the businesses are contractor once the Neighborhood House or people are contacted. Its been saying ok i understand low will comply in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Warren county will now also crack down on people violating Public Health orders kron fours Maureen Kelly tells us about the fines businesses and people face if they do not follow the rules. The caught not wearing a mask when youre supposed to walk out and about in vernon county. Could soon mean getting a ticket. The emergency ordinance which gets tougher on Rule Breakers was passed unanimously by the marine county board of supervisors today now under the new rules city and county workers including Law Enforcement park rangers and Code Enforcement officers can hit people with tickets for violating mass schools and public from 25 bucks to 500 it can happen on the street right citations like its more like a parking ticket. But its business is skirting the Health Orders that are the real target were talking about things such as restaurants let it slide when cooks in the kitchen or wait staff serving food. Dont wear masks get caught face steep penalties starting at 250 bucks and topping out at 10 grand the bigger the risk to Public Health and the number of previous warnings will help determine how expensive the citation will be those riding up the violations can get businesses up to 3 days to correct course. Doctor matt willis the countys Public Health officer who himself is a recovered coronavirus patients explains why they felt they needed to ramp up enforcement youre asking someone to cover their faces supporter number something that were doing for each other no, i wear my mask for you you were a vast for me. You know i really almost everyone calls according to that logic, you as as a good as a good citizen, but not everyone does and this is going to give us to to really enforce it more percent. Last week the county has established an email address where people can send in tips about Rule Breakers its already averaging 60 complaints a day. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. The nfl owners and Players Association have agreed to cancel the 2020 pre season. Owners originally wanted to reduce the preseason from 4 games to 2. But the union argued that playing any games would subject the players to an unnecessary risk of contracting covid19 for the sake of what is in essence just exhibition games. The league has also agreed to reduce Training Camp rosters from 90 players down to a t amid concerns over physical distancing. Another big story that were watching tonight a very rude wakeup for oakland mayor libby schaff overnight vandals targeted her home leaving behind graffiti and a huge mess to clean up. Oakland police are now looking for the people responsible kron fours Charles Clifford shows us the damage. Here in oakland mayor libby shaft home was vandalized early tuesday morning. Now according to a witness i talked to a group of people arrived here roughly around 2 oclock in the morning and began spray painting the mayors home, they also splashed red paint over her garage door vandalize the sidewalk, the side of her house she also vandalized several nearby signs and also hit her home with paypals they also spray painted several messages on the garage door, including defund opd and cancel rent now there have been multiple protests in front of the mayors house over the last couple of weeks but most of those have been peaceful this is the first one according to neighbors that involved any sort of destruction or vandalism in was also disruptive to the neighborhood, including lighting off fireworks which woke up everybody nearby i talked to one neighbor who says she supports the ongoing protests but feels this is taking a little too far. Because i totally support protesting and demonstrating. The anxiety of discourse but im not sure that i support. The phoebe on anything out of anger. And middle of the night does. Now the Oakland Police department is investigating had multiple officers in the neighborhood interviewing witnesses looking for neighbors who might have seen something also looking for Surveillance Video that might be able to show who did this at this point as of tuesday afternoon they have not identified any suspects in this case now on tuesday afternoon the Mayors Office put out a statement about the vandalism saying this attack designed to intimidate the marin strike fear into her family will not stop her from advocating for the policy she believes are in the best longterm interest of her beloved hometown in oakland Charles Clifford kron 4 news. President trump is moving to take undocumented immigrants out of the picture before congressional districts across the country are redrawn next year today he signed a president ial memo stating that the u. S. Census should not include undocumented immigrants for the purpose of congressional representation. Congressional representation is based on how many people live in the district, not just us citizens. But by changing how people are counted this order could affect the balance of power in the house of representatives, the president says the order will protect the rule of law and the integrity of the democratic process political analysts predict the order will be challenged in the courts. Still ahead here tonight on kron 4 news at 6 doctor Anthony Fauci says he will not step down after recent criticism from the president. Hear why hes encouraged about recent vaccine results. Also some sobering statistics why the cdc says Coronavirus Infection rates in the country could be 20 times higher and whats being reported. And we will take a live look now at oracle park theres kron fours jason dumas us. And he will. 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But all the talk after last nights game was about what happened before the first pitch kron 4 sports director jason dumas live now at oracle park with more fans there again how is without any fans, you know some other story lines were what policies with the stadium have regarding covid19 and then as far as on the field everybody was intrigued to see how the as would look in their first real game against opposing competition. Many experts have picked a the dark horse to maybe make the world series very talented team coming off 2 straight playoff appearances. But then the National Anthem started playing and i notice a contingent of giants kneeling during the anthem in it was led by game tackler their manager. Given everything thats going on in our society right so i guess right after the game, everybodys question whats the game and his players what made you do had a couple guys come to me a has talked to me about it and told me what they they thought about it and what they want to do and told me not to worry about like in the first year anything if i feel comfortable doing it denies to do it. And that kind of helped me having gabe in all of them do it to the kind of help me be more comfortable about it. I wanted to use my platform. To demonstrate my dissatisfaction. With the way weve handled. Racism in our country. I wanted to demonstrate my dissatisfaction with our clear systemic racism in our country. And. I wanted them to know that. They got to make their own decisions and we would respect him. So tonight the as are looking to split the series last night, the giants won 62 over at the coliseum tonight, mike fires will be on the bump florida athletics and colorados will be pitching for the giants neither will probably pitch more than a couple innings you know the manager there trying to get a lot of people the real sting starts on friday for the as at home and then on thursday, the giants have their first game in los angeles, so sports are back baseball here tonight the final tuneup for both teams in world highlight for the game tonight at 10 oclock on kron 4 news but for now to saw have justine back to all right jason, well see that thank you and tonight doctor Anthony Fauci says he will not resign from the White House Coronavirus task force despite some recent criticism from President Donald Trump. Reporter Michael Clarke has the very latest. You put aside even considering resigning from the task force right. Oh definitely im not even thinking about that responding to recent criticism from some federal leaders, including President Donald Trump doctor Anthony Fauci says he remains focused on helping the world through the coronavirus pandemic that kind of noise just gets in the way of the common job that we have and the common goal that we want to reach is just unfortunate that some people have made those kinds of remarks that are really not founded in any reality at all the nations top Infectious Disease expert is encouraged by recent results from 2 possible vaccines still being tested in trials obviously we need to do more studies with more people. But im a im actually heartened by what im seeing that more than one candidate appears to be inducing the kinds of responses that favorably might you know a degree of optimism about whether or not theyre going to be able to block infection. Fauci says the recent surge in cases may have come from some states that open too quickly. He believes some should consider taking a step back but above all hes encouraging personal responsibility. He says while young people may be less likely to get seriously ill they can still spread the virus to others tonight, theres continued calls to wear a mask and social distance this is going to end, but its going to be up to us. Its not good and spontaneously weve got to do the things that are necessary to put a stop to this. That was Michael Clarke reporting when it comes to opening schools, doctor fauci says he does not believe the solution will be one size fits all you can watch the full interview on our website kron 4 dot com. Lets talk now about our 4 zone forecast as we take a live look outside at the golden gate bridge, some fog out there there was a car fire out there earlier. And thats the afternoon traffic was at a standstill glad things have cleared up there in time for. Is somewhat of an evening commute but lets talk more about the fog of our Weather Forecast now with our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow arent they just the yet temperatures actually running a little bit below the average for this time of year which is not bad at all in fact. Up for the golden gate bridge. You got that fog that is moving on shore had some mid to high level clouds moving in today, weve got a weak area of low pressure thats kind of spin up you see some of those passing on through there they go moving by the Central Valley up in the Sierra Nevada numerous thunderstorms up there in the low clouds and fog moving back in along the coastline. Temperature wise weve got 59 degrees with some patchy fog in the San Francisco in a 66 right now in oakland 72 in san jose 75 degrees and live more 78 in concord and 68 degrees in santa rosa tomorrow morning. We wake up to some patchy fog and also some mid eye level clouds temperatures are going to be in the 50s in the 60s by the middle of the day well find some sunshine and a few clouds and temperatures Still Holding down. I think by the afternoon tomorrow, well top out partly cloudy skies numbers probably in the low to mid 80s, maybe the warmer spots around the bay area and that is about it were going to keep these temperatures running below the average low pressure going to make its way through the bay area tomorrow so plan about 75 degrees and hayward 73. In oakland about 65 degrees in San Francisco and 75 in santa rosa. Thank you. Lawrence today, califor

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