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Plus sounds so support the Gilroy Community continues its healing process and remembers the victims who tragically lost their lives one year ago today during the garlic festival shooting. Good evening, everybody thanks for being with us tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis thanks for joining us for kron 4 news at 8 well get to the situation in gilroy momentarily. But our top story tonight that massive fire. The damaged at least half a dozen San Francisco buildings and displaced at least 100 workers early this morning. We have Live Team Coverage from the scene of the fire which is still active to reaction from d out by flames. How smoke from the fire affected folks in the surrounding areas. We begin with Taylor Bisacky is live in the south of market district, where one point roughly half the citys entire firefighting resources. Were helping out with this fire taylor. Well right now firefighters are still battling the hot spots inside one of those buildings and if you take a look here behind me at the scene here behind me its still very active. And youll notice that the fire engine that was dousing the buildings earlier recently stopped and theyre focusing their efforts on the bart filled sales building and thats a Building Materials company. So its probably why its been a little bit more difficult to put out this fire with everything inside. And while this fire isnt contained yet. Its looking a much better than what we saw earlier today this is what neighbors saw earlier this morning, the flames engulfed 6 commercial buildings. One of those buildings housed 3 people through an article Coalition Housing project. Those residents are now displaced in addition to the number of workers who had jobs at these buildings, some of the other businesses include a partial sales venice auto body and the catering business a talk to those Business Owners all of them of course heartbroken after watching their businesses crumble in the fire firefighters say theyll be out here for days putting out these hot spots. Multiple hot spots within that area. Im chuckling because it in my mind i cant. Fathom how many are in there behind me thats all we have a lot of pipe up we have some ground monitors up. And him lines to address those as they do occur. Every remember unfortunately, the pier 45 fire where we encountered almost the same dynamics of the flare ups of the hot spots which took days to extinguish thats what were encountered with. Today. Now i also want to mention that earlier today, several people brought up a mattress fire that started last night from one of the homeless encampment behind these buildings on erie street firefighters say that that fire was put out by 1130 last night so at this time they do not believe its the cause however Business Owners here that the encampments could have started the second fire and are still curious. But of course we dont know because its still undetermined but. So far in the early phase of this investigation. We are told that firefighters believe that the point of origin of this fire was the back of the bar field sales building. We also heard earlier that a firefighter was injured in this fire, thankfully they have since been released from the hospital and are doing ok now live in San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. Thank you taylor that fire erupted in an area of the city that is both industrial and residential. Kron fours Maureen Kelly continues our Team Coverage with reaction from Business Owners and residents were forced to evacuate because of the fastmoving flames. Heres video that shows the flames shooting up alongside the central freeway people showing up to work nearby captured images of the huge wall of flames and the massive column. 6 black smoke. People who are just waking up had to scramble to get out in case the fire moved in their direction as quite scary. So we just decided to grab our personal belongings same bottom stab at great, so we did evacuate very quickly. One man was asleep inside his business along with his dog when the fire broke out. I looked to the sky building and theres a column of black smoke about 3 or 4 feet wide grab my dog run around and within 20 minutes, the entire block was in flames is building was flooded by the water used to put out the flames, its devastating for the business course along with everybody in covid in business down many for a lot of businesses this is you know to something that. You know what you know for being locked down for so long, you know Something Like this is just another you know you just got to take it in stride. You can see the remains of heart failed sales of Building Materials company that had stood in this spot for decades literally side because the building was such an icon for this neighborhood was i just said. A solid, you so yeah, its just its crazy. The fire also damaged the sheriffs departments Field Operations building. Deputies had to move weapons and ammunition stored there that Green Building you see behind me is rainbow grocery. They were not damaged by the fire, but they did evacuate their staff early this morning. And our remaining closed until wednesday morning because they feel like all the firefighting activity and the heavy smoke in the air makes it unsafe for their workers and customers Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. Then the smoke from that fire led to an air quality advisory for parts of the bay area. Yeah i was pretty smoky out there are current fourteam continues with meteorologist reese rodriguez, his more on that advisory mabrisa yeah there was a poor air quality advisories, specifically for those of you in the east bay, not only dealing with smoke from that structure fire in soma. But nearby fires in Fresno County and even in Lassen County so we did have some pretty moderate amount support air particles better improvement things to those westerly winds pushing that smoke and ash away from the east bay but still tracking moderate amounts of poor air particles throughout the San Francisco peninsula. Specifically near the south of market neighborhood where that structure fire took place and also downtown San Francisco. So please limit your Outdoor Activity as much as you can especially those of you with any pulmonary or respiratory issues fortunately tracking. Calmer winds speeds we did see gusts upwards of 25 Miles Per Hour less for downtown San Francisco. Now down into the teens sustained winds at 15 Miles Per Hour. Calmer conditions throughout tonight and back in the Single Digits by your wednesday morning so fortunately going to help out firefighters battle, those flames and we are tracking another round of no sky july for the rest of your workweek forecast until we warm up this weekend more coming up in my full forecast outlook in a few minutes going to keep back to a breeze and by the way we first brought you this story this morning with a push alert you can download the kron 4 mobile app for free to stay up to date on breaking news. Other news now there ar than 4. 3 million confirmed covid19 cases in the u. S. In california continues to lead the nation. In total cases now more than 466,000 of them. The state with the second highest case count is florida. The Sunshine State recorded more than 9,000 new cases. Yesterday giving it a total of more than 441,000 cases Major League Baseball dealing with a covid outbreak and now a teams future. Yeah it could be in jeopardy a car for sports director jason dumas joins us now live in studio with with more wow. Yeah, you know its a crazy story and justice. A lot going on Major League Baseball seems to be figuring out solutions as they go but essentially there was a covid breakout within the Miami Marlins clubhouse over the weekend and they continue to play their they continue to play their series with the phillies in. Was a bad idea by monday 17 players and members of the staff had tested positive for covid it wasnt until then that the team decided to consult with Major League Baseball and shut things down but this in effect just the marlins of course the phillies also had to pause its season since they came in direct contact with the marlins and that affected the yankees or slated to play the field in yet the orioles and the nationals had to adjust on a whim as well all in all the marlins wont play again before monday at the earliest. The phillies wont play again before friday at the earliest, the yankees will now play the orioles on wednesday and thursday they werent scheduled to do so and the nationals will have the weekend off because they were taking on the marlins. A lot going on i know the one simple part of this story is the fact that the giants are no part of it no positive test on the roster and gave kepler is trusting in his medical staff the medical staff us has led us well so far. Weve got weve got strong leadership in that regard and i think weve done a really nice job of following health and safety protocols but theres no theres no question that this adds. Kind of an additional layer of sensitivity and give us an opportunity to keep talking about it the testing was was very well organized. I feel like we have plenty of time to get to everything that we need to get to in the day as i look throughout our in our dugout we were we were masked a listen to what they were mass effect of appropriately and well i i always think theres room for improvement as it relates to our physical distancing. I thought we did a fine job and we just have to keep getting better. So good news there. The giants seem safe and healthy now in other news. They are currently down 5 to one to the pod raised early on and well have highlights of that game when it finishes, but thats all after now back to you guys. A beautiful sounds on a somber day an emotional tribute tonight on the one Year Anniversary of the gilroy garlic festival shooting. These are Gilroy High School Chamber Singers performing the song. See you again kron fours l sogomonian joins us now with more on todays remembrance events l a. Credit was an entire day dedicated to honoring the victims their families and the community will remain orlando. Last colletti moment of silence this morning for Trevor Irby Keyla Salazar and stephen romero, who were all killed in that attack along with 17 other people who were hurt. Then in a display of resilience to gilroy strong flag was raised high over Christmas Hill park in tonight, a virtual ceremony called rising together was live streamed for everyone to see thats where the Gilroy High School singers performed the song we played a clip of just a bit earlier. The Santa Clara County District Attorneys spoke about the strength and resiliency that gilroy has displayed after that horrific attack. Those 60 seconds were a time of evil, but that minute and the minutes hours days weeks and months that followed showed gilroys defiant answer to evil. Our answer to evil was courage. Service empathy and finally resilience. Our answer to evil is standing with us today in body and in spirit. Our answer wears badges and stethoscopes our answer wears crosses and gilroy strong tshirts and bears the healing wounds of the heart and of the mind. Our answer. Is that a year later. We are back and evil is not. Powerful words from the District Attorney there and just to highlight how much the community has supported one another in the aftermath of that tragedy. And the year since the shooting the gilroy Strong Movement has raised 1. 9 Million Dollars for the victims and their families live in the newsroom. Ella sogomonian kron 4 news. Coming up on kron 4 news at age is only a matter of weeks until classes back in session in San Francisco. We know that students are not going to be on campus but some details are still in the works Effective Immediately if you violate a health order and one east bay county. You can be fined that we have details on where this is urgency ordinance went into effect and how much it will cost Rule Breakers we hear a lot about restaurants retail and hair salons but what about gyms well have more on what we made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. After shopping around for insurance, they called usaa who helped find the right coverage for them and even some muchneeded savings. That was the easy part. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it easy. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it a look now at covid numbers in the bay area Alameda County is still the hardest hit in terms of cases more than. 10,600 of them. It also has the second most deaths only Santa Clara County surpassing in that regard every bay area county has more than 2000 total cases except for napa county which has just more than 800. Small gym owners in San Francisco are demanding the mayor and City Health Officials turned over the data they are using that is keeping them from reopening know San Francisco independent Fitness Studio Coalition Says dozens of gyms in the city are just days away from filing for bankruptcy or walking away from their leases for ever. First michelle kingston has more on their struggles to stay afloat during the pandemic. I can literally have one client and one trainer in this giant jim one square feet. I observed all the covid safety purpose why is that not safe. And so far the city has been able to tell us that. The San Francisco independent Fitness Studio Coalition Says there are questions about why they cannot reopen have not been answered by the city date character owns a next 3 fitness in is Offering Services online and now on the sidewalk doing what he can to try to stay open. But the reality of it is that even with all of our Business Online we overnight lost 95 of our business. And with a loss of 95 of the revenue you cant pay the rent ducati fitness is also struggling their 14,000 square foot facility once trained 200 clients a day now theyre working with the very small fraction of their clients outside but its not enough well honestly with no end in to the closure period. We have were forced to trying to figure out a way to do something outdoors this small gym owners say they will follow all guidelines but just need to know what they need to do. And are asking for the city to respond to the request for records and the data that is keeping them from reopening, im not exaggerating when i say this industry is not a creature. Weve not been able to reopen in any substantial way since march. And landlords are coming now looking for rat. The citys been so focused on keeping restaurants open keeping retail open and struggling to get hair salons reopened they are ignoring an entire business sector that the speed of very vibrant part of the surfaces on City Health Officials say because of the rise in cases and hospitalizations theyve had to pause reopening which. Of course also includes reopening gyms in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news Effective Immediately people and businesses caught ignoring state local Coronavirus Health orders are now subject. To a ticket and fine in Contra Costa County in a unanimous vote today, the Contra Costa County board of supervisors decided to give. Law enforcement the authority to cite and fine offenders who are caught in the act. If a higher percent of individuals or mass and businesses and forced it. We would have the surging numbers were have some of the other counties are doing much larger higher. And should be reasonable here. What they consider reasonable. Well for individuals, the fines range from 100 to 500 depending on how many violations you receive for businesses, those amounts range from 250 bucks up to 1000 as of today, several businesses in Santa Cruz County must stop all indoor operations after the county was placed on the states covid19 watch list over the weekend. This includes. Personal Care Services like hair and nail salons indoor malls places of worship and non essential offices, these businesses are allowed to cont