Defends the facing these pieces of art work by saying that they are antitrump messages and they are antipolice messages but the youth artists that are behind these pieces of artwork say they were just trying to start a thoughtful conversation around race here in palo alto but instead they were met with racism. The holy spirit. A police cell phone video captures a man spray painting over youth art work supporting black lives what debates are taking place saturday morning along University Avenue in palo alto 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 kovatto saw the unidentified man in the lives of the art with gold paint as he shouted about chinese death camps and how the artwork was devices trying to silence a whole group in youre talking about divide it didnt really match up where where shes trying to. I guess conca promote anti racist police by being thats what thats what were seeing among the things tagged and the posters include maggot referring to black people do more 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 prince i just hope the how the changes. For the better we can stop seeing this stuff. This man was apparently approached by Palo Alto Police on saturday and its unclear what came of that exchange but palace Palo Alto Police have confirmed with us tonight that they are investigating this as vandalism reporting live in palo alto dan thorn kron 4 news all right dan as you see School System now requiring all faculty staff and students to get a flu shot. Even though most wont be coming on campus. The new mandate is an effort to help the community is as as a whole as well as the Health Care System during the upcoming flu season and the kron fours noelle bellow spoke with Infectious Disease experts across the bay area. Who say they agree everyone should get 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 or requested now testing for coronavirus and you know were already will overwhelm 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 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 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. There are now more than 59,000 cases since the pandemic and more than 800 related covid deaths were seeing the most cases in alameda county. More than 13,000 infections. The virus has also been deadliest in alameda and Santa Santa Clara countys 2 04. 2 05 youll find a complete list of cases county by county on our website kron 4 dot com. And this just in a 55 yearold San Quentin State Prison guard has become the first employee to die from the coronavirus Sergeant Gilbert polanco known as bobby to his friends died this morning. Polacco contracted the virus from the San Quentin State Prison where he worked as a guard for more than 30 years he had been fighting for his life in the icu in a medically induced coma for more than a month. So far over 200 Staff Members have been infected by the coronavirus outbreak at san quentin. And another prisoner deaths related to covid19 has been reported at san quentin condemned inmate pedro reyes died today, he was sentenced to death in Sacramento County back in 1990 for first degree murder and seconddegree robbery while armed with a firearm this is the 25th prisoner at san quentin who has died from coronavirus. Happening this week covid19 testing will be offered at the santa clara central library. It is by appointment only and results are available within 3 to 7 days. The central park of Public Library is located at 2635 homestead road you can schedule an appointment for this wednesday and the following dates on your screen from 10 00am to 04 00pm. You can make your appointments on the countys website which we put a link to on our website at kron 4 dot com. An effort to bring back visitors, San Franciscos chinatown closed grand avenue on weekends to allow for more space for Outdoor Dining and retail. And the closure spans from california to washington street and at last from 11 00am to 05 00pm as kron 4 s Taylor Bisacky explains 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 an sec 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 trickle back into china town businesses are hopeful more will follow in San FranciscoTaylor Bisacky kron 4 news. Today the u. S. The past 5 million coronavirus cases that makes the west 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. And the death toll in america has surpassed 162,000. Tonight, some scientists are saying the number of deaths in the u. S. Could reach 300,000 by the end of this calendar 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 symptoms 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 face mask will be required were going to have 24 7. People Walking Around get infected or 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. Coming up, its no secret tourism here in the bay area is declining how one of the areas biggest lifelines has been hit hard by the pandemic over the past 5 months plus police are looking for someone who shot 3 people early this morning at an air bnb party we have reaction now from neighbors who say hes party shouldnt be happening. And tracking little change along the coast and along the bay for your work week monday, but some has taken action he says to help families struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic but what he was moves really mean for the average american. Plus one of the bay areas biggest lifelines has been hit hard by the pandemic over the past 5 months, were taking a oh, we love our new home. Neighborhoods great. Amazing school district. The hoa has been very involved. These shrubs arent board approved. You need to break down your cardboard. Thank you. Violation. Violation. I see youve met cynthia. At least geico makes bundling our home and Car Insurance easy. And it does help us save a bunch of money. Two inches over regulation. Thanks, cynthia. For bundling made easy, go to geico. Com well as the kids get ready to head back to school how are they plan to do it for chilly. Were actually going there in person it marks the end of the summer tourism season for north beach businesses say a lot of problems all over the place but many of these businesses say between the pandemic gained huge drop in tourism that. That created theyre not sure if theyll even be in business next summer kron fours Jonathan Mccall has that story. 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 of year and then the shares 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 opened 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 and that time. Terrible because theres so many especially around here among the top stories, you know they dont have that savings they dont have the ability to you know pay employees pay San Francisco 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. Thats thats you know also the shoulders of everyone in the city in San FranciscoJonathan Mccall on foreigners. The Georgia High School they got National Attention last week for appearing to not follow cdc, physical distancing guidelines says at least now 9 cases of covid the district telling parents that north paulding high school. Well have to move to online learning. For at least monday and tuesday this week parents got a letter from the district superintendent say today saying that theyll get updates later this week about how long the Virtual Learning period where let will last meanwhile the campus will be empty the School Principal says 6 students and 3 Staff Members have tested positive. More tests are pending earlier this sophomore posted a picture online showing a packed hall way where students were shoulder to shoulder, not wearing masks. She says sir friends or concert. Exposure is like very high in the hallways because were all smushed together. I feel like a lot of teachers have my back because they know how dangerous it is going to school but i know that a lot of the kids go to School Without already gotten backlash for it, ive gotten threats and things like that, but i know that im doing the right thing in 9 and is not going to stop me from continuing doing it, but it is concerning. Yeah all that negative attention and hannah was suspended. After she posted that picture of that crowded hallway, but that suspension has since been reversed. Superintendent says the school will be cleaned and disinfected before students return. Also says he does not think it is possible to enforce the use of masks. But with the start of the school year less than a couple weeks away the la Unified School District has provided a glimpse into what it will look like once the students are allowed to return to the classroom yasmeen feel was there as the superintendent took a tour of Burbank Middle School to see the coronavirus Safety Measures that have been put in place. From allen family home and mobile l a usd superintendent Austin Beutner takes a tour of the coronavirus Safety Measures in place inside burbank, middle school in Highland Park that has been acting as a test site to see what works we have. Electrostatic lee clean top to bottom the school and by that i mean you ionize what effect lysol so it sticks to every surface they then demonstrated how this disinfectant spray works. Drinking fountains are also off limits boxed lunches only hand sanitizing stations isolation rooms inside the Nurses Office and stickers in the oneway hallways marking 6 feet of distance and we expect to make this better and better. And the weeks and months ahead, but these schools will remain empty for the indefinite future l a usd start sc