Its its really really didnt expect to see that at walking down. The street wouldnt expect to see something that someone can. Our top story tonight, a man caught on camera defacing street posters supporting the black lives Matter Movement. Several video shared on social media show this man riding around on a skateboard spray painting over the murals the upsetting those artists who are behind the posters are conference dan thorn live for us in palo alto tonight. He joins us with more on what happened and. Were making grant the man is seen in those videos saying patriot lives matter and justifies his actions by saying that they are antitrump and they are anti police but the youth that are behind this artwork. Thats on University Avenue says that they were trying to start a thoughtful conversation here in palo alto but instead were met with racism. The holy spirit. A police palo alto man is caught on camera spray painting over youth art posters saying black lives matter and calling for social justice patriot facing taking place on University Avenue saturday morning is unfortunate to see that happening here so close to home. And such a place where its like you expect them to just be more progressive jeremy saw the unidentified man doing this as he shouted about chinese concentration camps and how they are working devices. Reservar shooting where is your right to it every matchup where shes trying to. I guess conca promote anti racist police by being thats what thats what were seeing among the things tagged on to the posters include maggot referring to black people do eore crime or she all united that the destruction of the artwork was disappointing, but not surprising for palo alto resident my a despondent at the center of white gentrification and all of these of that light is on the youth group behind the arc protests as the defacing shows just how an progressive palo alto is a go fund me page has been set up by them in hopes of replacing the damaged prints i just hope the how the changes. For the better we can stop seeing this stuff. Well apparently the man was approached by Palo Alto Police on saturday and we have reached out to them to confirm this confrontation or excuse me to confirm this on situation to see if anythings going to come of this we have reached out to them on to get more information and so far we have not heard back reporting live in palo alto dan thorn kron 4 news all right dan thank you keep us posted there meanwhile to the pandemic in tonight. Covid cases in the bay area have surpassed 59,000 the death toll here has reached 888 alameda and santa clara counties led the way with the most cases and each county has 205 deaths you can find a breakdown of all the cases county by county in the deaths on our website kron 4 dot com. Another prisoner deaths related to covid19 has been reported at san quentin condemned inmate pedro arias died today. He was sentenced to death in Sacramento County back in 1994 firstdegree murder and Second Degree robbery while armed with a firearm this is the 25th prisoner at san quentin who is passed away from the coronavirus in the south bay you can start making appointments at a new covid19 testing site. At the santa clara at central library. It is by appointment only and results are available said to be within one week. The library is located at 2635 homestead road you can schedule an appointment on one of 4 wednesdays starting this week for more information on dates and how to make an appointment you can head to our website kron 4 dot com. And on friday, the state released new guidance on what college and universities should consider before resuming in Person Instruction they include requiring Face Coverings establishing a covid19 prevention plan implementing physical distancing on campus and limiting nonessential visitors and limiting campus activities. One thing that will be required at all colleges talking about faculty staff and students in california. Getting a flu shot even though most people will not be on campus. The new mandate is an effort to help the community as a whole as well as the Health Care System during the upcoming flu season kron fours noelle bellow spoke with an Infectious Disease expert. And they agree that everyone should be getting a flu shot this year. Its a great idea for many reasons not what i think people really should get influenza vaccine from berkeley to San FranciscoInfectious Disease experts across the u c system are happy with the new mandate requiring all faculty staff and students to get a flu shot. Doctor, peter chan hong from ucsf says the inevitable stress on our Health Care System is a main by trying to decrease as many hospitalizations thats possible due to influenza. We can use fear of icu beds and fewer hospital beds, u c berkeley Infectious Disease expert doctor lee riley agrees he says testing is another worry as we head into flu season, but obviously can see lot of that maybe get you to the flu or other. You know this is these that we see in me involved in winter. So they have a lot more people either needing all requested now testing for coronavirus and you know were already well the testing might just for coronavirus and yeah, i got a lot worse doctor. Riley says adding an influenza epidemic on top of the covid19 pandemic. Could truly complicate the system so keeping influenza case numbers low is more important this year than ever before and just the resources in thats going to be needed to control so that they can be really stressed and thats why we should get the flu shot. We can do something a lot of flu. We we dont have that much. To go on with covid both doctors believe that if you were to get the flu. You could be more susceptible to getting coronavirus as well because your immune system will already be a lowered now that you see a system mandate is requiring all faculty staff and students to get a flu shot by november first in San Francisco noelle bellow kron 4 news. Us the past 5 million coronavirus cases that makes the u. S. The first country to do so more than 4 months now into the pandemic more than one out of every 4 cases in the world has been in the u. S. Said the death toll in america has surpassed 162,000. And tonight some scientists are saying that the number of deaths in the u. S. Could reach 300,000 by the end of the year. Victor blackwell reports. If doctors and Health Care Experts are correct the wave of covid19 infections is not even close to over we failed early on to adopt the testing it was necessary. And even more so we feel the ramp that up to a degree that were going to need in the coming season. One Important University model predicts that the number of americans who will have died from covid could reach 300,000 by december 1st. A Public Health professionals are pleading with people to wear a Face Covering in public. But. Many are refusing there should be a federal mask mandate. We know studies across the country that when there is a mask mandate in place. The number of infections drops dramatically. There have been studies suggesting that mask mandates are actually more effective than lockdowns on saturday. The California Department of health reported 7,371 new cases. The Florida Department of health reported more than 8500 cases Health Officials in texas said the states sevenday covid19 Positivity Rate had risen to more than 19 . The highest sevenday average since the pandemic began. Doctors say one important factor to reopening the u. S. While maintaining safety is rethinking the National Strategy on testing for the Virus Testing is so important because it helps you distinguish who is a case from whos not. Who needs Contact Tracing right now were only doing about 800,000 tests a day which is so far below the minimum daily target of at least 2 million tests a day if not 4 million tests every day thats what we need to do to get a handle on this. New yorks governor is allowing schools to reopen this fall with a reduced number of students in each classroom and with the help of parents if your child is sick or getting any of them do not send them to school. If youre feeling sick, a home. Were going to have Temperature Checks were done at random i Temperature Check everyone will be wearing personal Protection Equipment base map will be required were going to have 24 7. People Walking Around in fact indoor not been handrail a new report from the cdc supports the earlier belief that most coronavirus cases in children appear to be either asymptomatic or mild. But the report said that when children are hospitalized, they need intensive care as often as adults do. All right now to baseball and this wasnt just your average pandemic baseball game, the as currently are the hottest team in baseball, so thats one thing came in today looking for their 9th straight win. And in the whole lot more than that went on the Houston Astros you see were in town. Theyre continuing to get fallout from their sign stealing scandal that oakland pitcher like fires helped bring to light last november kind of expose them. Hold on if you will see these 2 teams of bad blood is go for the threegame sweep of the astros top 3rd already one nothing oakland straw. Mat olson is so good towering shot 6. Center there thats a threerun shot as lead 4 nothing 5th homer of the year for all 6. In the 7 days at 6 to Ramon Laureano here we go hes hit by a pitch for the second time in the game, 3rd time theyve had in the series obviously doesnt like it has a few choice words for the picture there. But then won first bays laurie out and gets into an argument with the astros hitting coach. Alex cintron. Finally lori ottos had enough sun shines like look at look at and there is a brand and then he steps up there you kind of jacks up his pants wide stance. The hitting coach is ready to go taunting lori otto and laurie goes after him players they are everybody goes out there the ashers guys tackle laurie lori on a man he is hes upset and has a right to be quite frankly. Bottom line here as win 7 to they get their 9th straight but now they have to wait to see whos going to get suspended certainly suspensions will come want to see for how long that hitting coach cintron you would think would be suspended for a long time as well as more sports coming up later in the show including see tremendous finish at the pga championship in San Francisco featuring a cow there. East coast residents pretty rattled this morning coming up on kron 4 news at 8 were going to take a look at the strongest earthquake for a region in nearly a century. Plus one of the bay areas biggest lifelines has been hit hard by the pandemic over the past 5 months were taking a look at just how bad a lack of tourism has been. And how a popular San Francisco neighborhood is as the kids get ready to head back to school it marks the end of the summer tourism season for north beach businesses, whatever going back to school this year even means but many of the businesses say between the pandemic and then this huge drop in. Tourism theyre not sure if theyll be in business next summer kron fours Jonathan Mccall reports. Staying afloat during the coronavirus pandemic has become a challenge for many restaurants and retailers are so for was just you know a sea of people. I mainly tourism this time we are in this years you can see everybodys been hit so hard. Zach gravess manager at the International Spy shop his business like many others in north beach rely heavily on tourism for their bottom lines during the summer months, he says the bottom line from tourism cells has dropped 90 this summer because of the pandemic well unlike many of his locanda but tourism is really gone down as you can see all the different businesses have shut down and its part of a troubling trend. According to San Francisco based yelp since march first nearly 2600 businesses in the bay area have mark themselves as permanently closed. Nearly 3,000 other businesses temporarily closed. Overall more than 26,000 restaurants and more than 26,000 retailers across america have closed their doors in that time. Terrible because theres so many especially around here, mom and pop stores, you know they dont have that savings they dont have the ability to you know pay employees pay 7 cisco ranch group says the store has been in business for 25 years and has moved to selling personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. To help keep the doors open. He says the only way to change those numbers compliance, everybody to get on board. Support local businesses, a huge one thing that your local restaurants say you want to be local to. So supporting them is going to be huge and thats thats you know also the shoulders of everyone in the city in San FranciscoJonathan Mccall kron 4 news. Speaking of in an effort to bring back visitors, San Franciscos chinatown is closing grand avenue on weekends to allow for more space for Outdoor Dining and some retail the closure spans from california to washington streets in last from 11 00am to 05 00pm and as kron 4 s Taylor Bisacky explains now the closure is helping some of the businesses hit hardest by the pandemic. San franciscos chinatown is bringing life back to its streets on sunday. Visitors strolled down a now closed grand avenue we talked to people the customers and they come in see how many people from the bay area. Theyre just coming into the city for the day just for something to do. And thats you see picking up that had customers in stockton today has customers in santa rosa today in an effort to revive its businesses. The Chinatown Merchants Association recently closed down 3 blocks of grand avenue from california to washington streets. Restaurants like dim sum corner are now in their 3rd week of offering Outdoor Dining we love the street closure, it brings people back to china you know even before the shutdown chinatown was already really affected. At the end of last because of some people perceiving it as the chinese virus. So even this year when we have the annual Chinese New Year parade our business significantly lower than the year before dean re magazine managing partner and in some Corner Police and normally sees thousands of visitors throughout the summer announced the pandemic business took a dramatic nosedive next as she had to cut Business Hours and stripped back to a Skeleton Crew were doing about 10 of the business we did compared to last year at this time. And you know we really have to shift quick and make changes quick. I mean we you know fullservice Indoor Dining we have to move everything outside like several other businesses on the street dim sum corner is at its busiest on the weekends during the closures which are every saturday and sunday from 11 00am to 05 00pm through september 20th. As people to go back into china town businesses are hopeful more will follow in San FranciscoTaylor Bisacky kron 4 news still playing take that road trip the average price of gas here in the u. S. And held steady the past couple of weeks and 2. 25 a gallon down about. 0. 50 from this time last year a nationwide the highest average price for regular. Is in San Francisco, the bay area 3. 31 a gallon. According to triple a slightly higher in marin county a 3. 43 santa clara county, 3. 26 the lowest average. You got to go to baton rouge, louisiana, one 77 per gallon thats a can yeah, we know this is homes buildings people shaken in North Carolina this morning. Some of the surveillance video. Pretty incredible the regions strongest earthquake here in 94 years it struck in the northwest part. Of North Carolina kind of near the virginia border. These images are out of sparta North Carolina, 5. 1 tremor followed a much smaller quake hours earlier. This is the strongest quake to hit the state. Since 1916 it was felt as far away as South Carolina and georgia. A lot of homes were damaged in this earthquake. All right, lets going take a live look outside right now our 4 zone forecast we or above the fog line overlooking downtown San Francisco sales forced howard is. Poking through. Theyre at the bottom of the screen above the line but not a lot of room to spare as meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez joins us now quite a a fog deck their memories of for the past several days, yeah, and thats all because of fog is so lets take a look at todays daytime highs things to that june gloom like pattern, we certainly didnt notice. Cooler temperatures along the coast near average highs but away from the San Francisco peninsula coastline 5 to 10 degrees above average take a lo