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KRON KRON 4 News At 6am July 12, 2024

Just how a soft and we are this morning. As we start to get closer to the lunchtime hour things will start to move and we will be opening up to a lot of sunshine for yourself a zone east bay and much of the north bay leaving all that fog hugging a lot of our coastal spots. Temperatures outside right now 50s 60s but im tracking some warm ones in some neighborhoods coming up this afternoon. I will have my full forecast in just a few minutes back to the news. Thanks a lot, lets get to the big story which is california surpassing another terrible milestone in a pandemic a 197 deaths yesterday the highest singleday total and now some doctors say the u. S. May need to hit the reset button altogether in its response to the pandemic. Whitney wild explains. It is time to reset medical experts at Johns Hopkins releasing a new report wednesday titled resetting our response urging the United States to reset its response with policy actions at the federal state and local level to get control of the covid19 pandemic unlike many countries in the world, the United States is not currently on course to get control of this epidemic. The report says this as republican congressman Louie Gohmert was not allowed on president trumps visit to texas after testing positive for coronavirus wednesday. You know a lot of people in made a big deal out of mind out wearing a mask ow ly now members and staff will be required to wear masks at all times. And the hall of the house except that members may be moved their masses temporarily when recognized and after House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell declined an offer from the trump administration. To have a Rapid Testing system on capitol hill back in may lawmakers are questioning why there isnt one in place one thing that i think that we should wear their mask that i also think wish that testing here though this as california is facing its deadliest day so far. Governor Gavin Newsome tweeting tragically california surpassed another somber milestone today, 197 deaths across the country florida. The new at the center of americas pandemic again shattering its daily death toll numbers wednesday breaking the record the state just step on tuesday. At the white house, im whitney wild reporting. Well heres a look at the numbers as they pertain to california and the bay area across the state we now have more than 484,000 confirmed cases with 89,000 deaths 8900 deaths reported so far across the bay area 49,000 cases reported with the death count now up at 772. All bay area counties are now on the watch list San Mateo County was the last to be added because of a spike there and now bore Business Owners are bracing to have to close up again kron fours will tran is live in burlingame with more. Well. You had ari and the businesses just reopened probably of several weeks ago if not a month there was staggered across the bay area and those businesses behind me theyre not considered essential businesses. These are boutiques they were so happy to finally get some money but now with the state putting San Mateo County on the watch list. There is a chance that their business could be dramatically reduced if not shut down altogether because they cant keep going dipping into their savings as far as San Mateo County now its the last county in the bay area to be added to the watch list. Its not a death sentence. Theyre just going to closely monitor the situation, San Mateo County is the last county in the bay area where you can go get a haircut you can work out. But if the remains on that watch list for 3 consecutive days that means that the businesses might have to move outside and then sell the clothing on the outside are only do pick up and certain locations they were allowing people to go inside and that dramatically help with their revenue but with out more people coming in and definitely if there is a shutdown it could be just disastrous for a lot of businesses who are already dipping into their savings. I knew right from the beginning that in order to. Get through this all have to some of my retirement money in but i have a 2 years to go before i retire, and i definitely am committed to stay. So jane starry a wide San Mateo County all of a sudden this happened yesterday get added to the states watch lists while the state as you might recall youve been following the news and a lot of people have if you have more than a 100 cases for 100,000 residents that is the danger zone and now in San Mateo County theyre sitting at 114 cases, california. Yes, we have the biggest population in the country. But if you look strictly at numbers and james talked about those numbers a little bit earlier we have the most deaths and the most coronavirus cases in the entire country. Well, the Business Owners get here we will continue to get reaction as well as some of the shoppers obviously it is quiet right now. But a lot of businesses they were so joyful as you might recall james and darya that they finally got to reopen. Now they might have to hit the reset button back to you all right, thanks a lot. Well. In the east bay, you could get a coronavirus test from a temporary kiosk in berkeley, its located at San Pablo Park and actually its a selfadministered test so people who come up actually swapped their own mouths and then hand that off to an attendant at the kiosk cool then send that away for testing the results they say could be expected in about one to 2 days so relatively quick. Today though is the last day for this temporary test a kiosk to be open to the public. So if you want to test make sure to get one. You have to make an appointment online though you cant just show up, so you can find out more information on how to do that through our website at kron 4 dot com. Theres also a new walkup testing site at the 24th and Mission Transit hub in San Franciscos Mission district. The goal is to monitor the disease in vulnerable populations, particularly the heavily impacted latin x community. The site will be open on wednesdays and fridays for the next 3 weeks. And the south bay. Theres a coronavirus outbreak at haas co in sunnyvale the question is what are they going to do about it and called for Sarah Stinson live there now with the very latest on what weve been told so far sir. The Santa Clara County Health Department is conducting an investigation into this outbreak and they say that costco is participating in working with the Health Department after several employees tested positive with the coronavirus take a look at these maps you can get a good idea of where im standing at the costco in sunnyvale its right off of lawrence expressway right about a mile off of one oh one. There are about 9 cases that have been reported here since the beginning of the month, but the Public Health officer that we talked with did not confirm the actual specific number the county goes through a sevenstep process when theres a positive case or cases out of business they identify the infected employee or employees make sure theyre isolated get tested and make sure that they dont come back to work at least 10 days after not having any symptoms identify all close contacts the Business Needs to see exactly which days they worked and communicate with all employees in the step process, however, the Health Department does not require the business to alert the general public about break so people have been talking about this through the grapevine but nothing has been pulled out to the public the only reason we found out about it was from the Health Department that they were investigating the county does recommend the business thoroughly disinfect entire business to prevent any additional spread you can see the costco has the green check mark in front of its doors, this video shot this morning and the information on the door about covid19 but knoller to the public doesnt say anything about a local spread here about employees coming down with the coronavirus now they have the senior hours starting at 9 oclock to 10 oclock in the general public well be live in the costco members will come in around 10 oclock. Its a very popular costco definitely online people are ask what theyre doing to protect the public. So stay tuned havent been able to contact costco yet but hopefully well have an up for update for you in the next hour for now live in sunnyvale Sarah Stinson kron 4 news sara james i go to costco all the time you want to know when theres an outbreak right lot of customers going want to know if theyre going to need to go get tested now tom, thank you sarah. Now, lets talk baseball, the giants are back on track their in their first home win of the season. With an exciting finish against the padres. This is driven to write feel we might just read those wild, but the real handlers look at this guy came up with the ball, no big party though because of covid thats the way you got a role now even with a walkoff its just not as. Exciting i but that was the second slasher free us from ski as you can see there he had to in all actually the giants had 4 home runs yeah and the end score was a slugfest the padres did their best with 7 to 6 the 2 teams play again tonight. Manager gabe kepler is impressed. Hes full of fighters. I think that Hunter Pences has talked about that internally as well. So these are these are their and i believe them when they talk and i think they they demonstrated that they you know they come back those words up tonight. Im not the as it was not a good day for them in fact they got swept by the rockies is only scored one run rockies had 5. The as will try to bounce back by hitting the road theyll play the Seattle Mariners tomorrow night, the back. And happening today basketball is back the nbas restarting its season in the bubble at Walt Disney World in Orlando League commissioner, adam silver discussed how the nba plans to deal with any coronavirus outbreaks among the players and coaches like they just saw in baseball. If we had any significant spread whatsoever we would certainly stop immediately wet and then we would investigate and determine whether we could move watching obviously whats happening in baseball right now. They group of infections on one particular team they cost that team is as far as i understand it they intend to continue on their season. Im sure theyre undergoing the same now says we would try to figure out where the spread has come from and whether there are protocols are working. And the nba says there have been no new cases of covid19 after their latest round of testing. The bubbles seems to be working for now for now. The big game tonight is between the la clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers that one is at 6 oclock that is the marquee game today. All right still ahead. The Police Department is ramping up efforts to increase transparency. Well have details on the new tool its using to track police use of force. Plus a closer look at the damage caused by the fire in San Francisco, south of market neighborhood crews still on scene looking for hot spots. Well have the latest this morning. And im tracking lots of fog and cloud cover around the bay area, especially here conditions at sfo. But im also tracking sunshine later today with some 6. 15 right now and were looking at the forecast for thursday foggy the Golden Gate Bridge, shes almost thick enough to cover. The entire span all the way down to the road that curry back oh yeah it really hampton i promise you it is so it will definitely be able to see a much clear shot later on today even kind of see there some of the trees, some of the bushs below normal we were able to see a part of berkeleys that town you can see the buildings we could see all the way to the bay, not the case this morning though karl the fog really has us. Socked in this morning and you can see it here on future cast force as we get closer to 8 oclock hour were still under a whole lot of fog and cloud cover around the bay area and then once we advance the map even more so it begins to push back and you can see its going to just remain at our coast. Its pretty stubborn today, its going to be like this said the through the next couple of days as a matter of fact is very than very similar. For the last a few weeks and temperature wise waking up to thats pretty much the same thing as yesterday 50s 60s on the board you might need some long sleeves to get yourself out of the house this morning. Then we are going to open up to some warm temperatures, even hot ones in some spots uh later on today, currently right now 61 in oakland 55 right here in San Francisco and currently 61 in downtown san jose. But here are your afternoon highs that were looking forward to with all the sunshine that were going to be seeing into the later part of the day 72 expected for oakland and i 76 in hayward but then it gets warmer as we get inland of course upper 80s for concord today, upper 80s in livermore 82 if you are going to be in any out today and then near 90 degrees thats what im tracking in morgan hill at 8984. In downtown san jose and then mainly 60s for summer coastal spots were all that fog is going to be hanging out at for the remainder of the day 66 Half Moon Bay and 68 that were going to see a high of in San Francisco. Heres around they forecast a little bit cooler just slightly tomorrow before a really heating up on saturday and suddenly inland. Around the bay and at the coast temperatures are going to be really nice and mild anywhere from the 60s at the coast to 70s around the bay, but again very hot inland. So you might want to get relief and go somewhere more comfortable like summer basin spots and then next week uh its going to be a dip in temperatures all the way around. And it looks like monday tuesday and also wednesday, well be about the same thats a look at whether james all right, thank you very back at 6. 17 lets see how the traffic shaping up this morning. Looking pretty good actually here at the bay bridge toll plaza was half expecting here to see at least a minimal back up in a few lanes but so far right nice. The brides moving at the limit for you from oakland and San Francisco with no major delays so better than normal for your drive there and here at the Golden Gate Bridge aside from the fog. Youre driving just fine without any issue. No major accidents or incidents reported by the chp for any stretch really of southbound 1 one as you make your way from or in county down into San Francisco. And the north bay police are revealing a new tool to track the use of force the move comes is were having backlash all over because the recent fatal shootings that have happened by Vallejo Police officers and. Others around the country kron fours dan kerman has the latest. Like many agencies the vallejo Police Departments use of force is currently under scrutiny as many question whether the department is crossing the line. Now the department is collecting data and sharing some of it online that the public. This is a tool. Or departments use the dig deep into their own statistics in their own practices and policies and training see things that they normally wouldnt be able to see. Bob scales with Police Strategy says the data looks at the use of force over 3 year period, beginning in january of 2017. Among the findings 6. 7 of the time Vallejo Police arrests involve the use of force thats higher than the average which is 3. 8 for 88 agencies using this system. The data also shows once force is used the label Police Officers take longer to control a suspect. This could be due to the fact that. Subset subject in blaine though are more difficult to control. There could also be that officers are not using their use of force tactics as effectively and as has officially as they could or could be a combination of both. The data also found over the last 3 years one officer used force 30 times and 8 officers use force 20 to 25 times each but also the kind of things that the Early Warning system is supposed to death a. That this is an officer that seems to be any more rest than most other more use of force than others why is that and so not you can make determinations as to whether that person suitable for particular simon at the half. Civil rights Attorney John Burris is involved in several cases against the vallejo Police Department he says getting this type of data is important but he says its just the First Step Towards improving it apartment. Having that is important reliable data is more important to make sure the guy that is reliable and then wants is minutes reliable and then you make projections and you make newest abscond up to out implement whatever that data reflecting the positive what ought not do something. Delay has police chief says this is just another tool they can use to move the department towards the philosophy of 21st century policing. Dan kerman kron 4 news. What we now know the name of the boy who died in lafayette after being struck by a delivery veh

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