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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 Francisco Infectious 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 Francisco Taylor 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 Francisco Jonathan 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 school in a little over a week with Distance Learning intel, Certain Health standards are met. It is the number of cases per 100,000 population. Were still in the 300 level. The state standard is 100 earlier this week after about 2 months of negotiations ellie usd and the Teachers Union came to an agreement on what the Virtual School day will look like for us that will look like about 30 minutes a day her craft of live instruction. And about 15 to 20 minutes of independent infection in buettner says parents will learn more in the coming days every principle of every school be holding a town hall this coming week. Virtually of course all schools will have the Safety Measures in place by the 18th meantime the bargaining will continue with the union. On exactly when schools can reopen. I was jasmine avail reporting for us tonight out of los angeles, a Family Dollar and Dollar Tree Stores are now requiring customers to wear masks the 2 chains have the same owner they both say on their websites the mask requirement is to comply with cdc guidelines. The chains hadnt acted such a mandate back in early july but then they relaxed and a couple weeks later. In National News tonight. The u. S. Has top a sobering milestone, 5 million cases of coronavirus and as this pandemic continues many families are finding themselves struggling to make ends meet in an effort to ease their burden President Trump says he has signed for new executive actions. Talking about 3 memorandums and one is an executive order. But what do these things really mean for the average american britt conway reports. Stimulus talks may have stalled but President Trump is pushing full steam ahead with 4 executive actions. And white house chief economic adviser larry kudlow says it was the right thing to do. He said we will use every power the federal government has to help out and i think this is an example of that. But House Speaker nancy pelosi questions their effectiveness among other things theyre absurdly unconstitutional. So lets break these down first up an additional 400 in Unemployment Benefits states would have to pay the first 100 then the federal government would add 300 but do states have the money the states have not spent all the money that was allocated to them now they dont they have expenses from the coronavirus they had lost revenue up next pausing payments and interest on federal Student Loans until the end of the year. Number 3 an executive order on addiction, putting that decision in the hands of the department of health and Human Services and the cdc. If they are concerned about Community Spread for example. They will trigger actions that will prevent evictions the 4th and final signature delaying the payroll tax until the end of the year. Thats what comes out of your paycheck for Social Security and medicare. But questions remain over legalities of these actions. I understand there will be a debate whether theyre legal or not. Takes time to figure out im britt conway reporting. Democratic House Speaker nancy pelosi appeared on cnns state of the union this morning she weighed in on the president s executive actions saying they do not meet the needs of the American People. First of all hes saying states have the money now they dont they have expenses from the coronavirus they have lost revenue because of that they make they are firing. Health care workers First Responders and teachers and the rest. Sanitation transportation most because they dont have the money. A second of all if everything is left at our systems to the schools, cheating the hungry helping people who are going to be evicted president s. But what about in due met moratorium, he just did a study or look at a more china so again. Somethings wrong is that the president doesnt know what hes talking about clearly his aides dont know what hes talking about and or somethings very wrong here. About meeting the needs of the American People lets talk about that time what. Well off President Trump is exploring how he could get his face added to Mount Rushmore. New york times reports his aides reached out to south dakota governor kristi noem about it last year. A source familiar with the papers coverage says that she gave him a replica of Mount Rushmore that included his face when he visited on july 4th. The governor know month spoke about trumps interest in appearing on the monument in 2018 and the president had talked about it. A year earlier Mount Rushmore is a federal monument that depicts president s george washington. Thomas Jefferson Abraham lincoln and theodore roosevelt. In world news protesters and Lebanese Security forces clashed in beirut saturday on what the demonstrators dead judgment day. This comes after tuesdays devastating blast that left over 150 people dead and 6,000 wounded. Our ben wedeman is in beirut now with more on the story. They carried a banner with the names of those killed in tuesdays massive blast. Beiruts initial shock now why. And a government political elite that through the competence of corrections has pushed lebanon. The breeze. In their demands. There is settled. And none them and we want to take revenge on them says for alaska said wendy we want to hang them because they killed us our blood is still boiling over the People Killed in the blast, an atomic bomb that exploded in the heart of beirut has i saturday the explosion in beirut was rage. Ordinary citizens have lost so much in the last few they have little left to lose. Theyve seen the economy collapses the local currency news much of its value. Hyperinflation thank you power cuts and last tuesday, a catastrophic explosion that killed more than 150 people wounded thousands and made at least 300,000 homes. And now politicians are being called to account. About aon chain on them says this protest are they killed their people the impoverished us weve lost everything and still they cling to power. Other protesters occupied a variety of ministries, including the Foreign Ministry where they burned a portrait of president bush and on. And was declared a young man he said the day of judgment. Are the leaders of that. Overseen what is essentially. A state struggling to maintain control the population. Under siege from its own people. For world news now and this is being called the countrys deadliest fire in 3 decades 11 people died in a fire on the top floor, a residential building in the czech republic, it was right near the border with poland this weekend 10 other people were injured including 2 firefighters and a police officer, an investigation into how it started is now ongoing. Some lawmakers on capitol hill are sharing they think should be joe bidens d p im kelly meyer reporting from washington who they say the right person for the job. Plus he is golfs it navy sports news, darlie yeah, that is Colin Eric Allen know the what he did wrong just with the trophy and what went wrong here. The as and ash shows they like each joe biden is expected to announce his running mate any day now our washington correspondent kelli meyer talk to lawmakers on capitol hill. About their recommendations. I strongly support my fellow floridian democratic congresswoman kathy castor wants florida congresswoman val demings to be the next Vice President demings is a former police chief and was a part of President Trumps impeachment trial if you watch bow demings in action you saw someone who is eloquent she was prepared, but shes not the only member of congress being vetted for joe bidens vp spot congresswoman karen bass and senators Tammy Duckworth and Kamala Harris also made the short list all of us are leaders regardless of that the title we hold South Carolina democrat congressman jim cliburn is talking to biden ahead of the announcement which is expected to come any day now i think the Vice President is doing what they ought to do. And that is allowing is that is to do that work. The couple and that is necessary and then when you go through the results of all of that. You let your heart and you had to go cliburn isnt dropping any hints about who he thinks biden should pick the Trump Campaign tells me there isnt anyone they think will make a difference in the race Republican National committee spokesperson, Liz Harrington says all of the options are out of touch with america i think his short list. Has shown. They are not shying away whatsoever from the left wing fringe of their party biden is expected to announce his running mate before the Democratic National convention which is now just a little over one week away reporting in washington, im kelly meyer. California representative Maxine Waters says that she believes Presumptive Democratic nominee joe biden will pick a black woman to be his vp lee is of course promised to pick a female and waters predicts will be choosing either senator Kamala Harris or former Obama National security adviser susan rice. Its going to be stored or whomever is do i believe that is going to be an africanamerican woman. I certainly do wait African American women have the marriage in this country showing that they had the most reliable part of the democratic party. I really it is going to be an African American wont do. The Biden Campaign has vetted 11 Vice President ial candidates in addition to. Harris said rice some of the other contenders are said to be michigan governor Gretchen Witt near and she also is not alone the announcement is expected soon of course because biden wants to have a pick before the convention which starts august 17 that is not tomorrow but the following monday. And the drama. All right, whether time as we take a live look outside whether or not so dramatic as this live shot of the embarcadero in San Francisco. Its pretty standard issue summer night im meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez here to talk about as we wind down the weekend a new ramp up for the work week. Yeah were going to notice little change along the coast and east bay shoreline but some relief finally for inland valleys after warming up near the triple digits in the tri valley is today but downtown San Francisco Holding Steady tomorrow in the mid 60s and near average highs there. Mid 60s as well for daly city and pacifica Half Moon Bay 65 degrees low 70s from brisbane to burlingame so we are going to start out with that low and high cloud cover giving way to plenty of sunshine by or monday afternoon as we begin our new work week forecast san mateo 73 degrees redwood city though 10 degrees warmer at 83 degrees for your monday afternoon highs and widespread mid to upper 80s for those of you in the south bay. Cupertino 88 degrees san jose 87 degrees by your monday afternoon and out of the upper 90s and in the low 90s so some relief for those of you in livermore warming up to 92 degrees by tomorrow and conquered out of the 90s completely so youre going to see nearly a 10 degree drop from todays daytime highs 88 degrees won a creek in the mid 80s with widespread low to mid 70s for most of the east bay shoreline with open in hayward in the mid 70s for you nap, a 81 degrees. Santa rosa 84 degrees and a bottle also in the mid 80s. So overall we are going to notice a gradual cooling trend things of that increase in cloud cover and the return of that marine layer and cool sea breeze for wednesday. And then mostly sunny skies contributing to our warming trend next weekend fortunately not going to be as hot inland as it certainly was today going to get back to you. Time now for schools. Has called the coast for this final round of the pga championship today in San Francisco first golf major of the year it was tight down the stretch and 7 guys tied for the lead on the back 9. But in the end. It was the new young star 23 years old less than a year roughly removed from graduating cals haas school of business and he just won his first major title as the cdc harding park and yes people are like why is it so cold there in the summer well, this is what we do and get to know the name colin mora kalla the great chip in there on 14 and that got him into a tie for the lead at 11 under par that was clutch. This was at pick shot of the tournament tee shot on 16 grabs driver and this guy was. Probably playing at least a dozen times at harding because he again with the cow. Thats within 6 feet. Yeah, fist bump sets up at eagle putt here. You got to convert it. Any drains it. A 2 shot lead now for comer cal over the rest of the field he would par the final 2 holes to happen in there on 18 to seal his first major championship. Theres girlfriend catherine he joins tiger woods. Jack nicholas and rory mcilroy at what. He lost the top of whatever and rory is the only 23 yearold ever to win. The pga championship. And the crowd loved it. He was smiling broadly and he is a young young star in the making he had no problems today ice in his veins hard to believe he was a part of the cal golf team in 2019 now golfing in his second major winning his first major. He wins the pga tournament today, the 3rd youngest ever to do that is a little baseball now as, currently the hottest team in baseball coming into today, looking for their 9th straight win. But there was a lot more than just a win or a loss at stake here the Houston Astros continue to be right in the thick of a lot of animosity this year after they were caught stealing that whole sign stealing scandal over the offseason and oakland as pitcher mike fires is the one that blew the lid off that thing kind of told everybody what the astros had been is going for the 3 game sweep though, so again theyre still hot stop 3 already one nothing oakland. Matt olson towering shot to center what one is gone threerun shot. Sleep for nothing 5th homer on the air for olson. Jump to the 7 as ahead 62. I heres the jews that is Ramon Laureano hit by pitch for the second time today 3rd time this series. And he had like it you dont blame. Then he gets the first base and lori i know he john with the bench gets into an argument and the astros hitting coach alex cintron was kind of aiding a look at there on the left hunting and thats a coach, not even a player finally laurean is like i thats enough. I want to go get him. But the hitting coach kind of backs up you really want to fight and the astros players tackle oriana. Bottom line here in terms of the as winning streak and the hottest team in baseball as win 7 to 9 straight victory, but now weve got to wait and see who got suspended, you know theyre going to be. Coming down on that i technically not a lot of fight at all during the pandemic i giants baseball now gave kepler to china. The state 2 of 3 from the dodgers in los angeles seeing his bunch. Getting some clutch hitting from mike the straps that guys is just solid that she had a big game last night gets the base not there to center to run scores giants lead to nothing which i bought in 7 same score. A j pollack. Takes tyler rogers deep to left center and thats out of here threerun shot makes it 3 to dodgers. And then well keep betts is another 3 run shot. In the 8th for la dodgers win 6, 2, giants top 2 or 3 down there and they get this take on houston the astros should be interesting that starts in and now for a final check at your 4 zone forecast daytime highs tomorrow along the coast very similar to today near average with widespread mid 60 for the San Francisco peninsula coastline and mid 70s as you make your way inland into the east bay shoreline about 5 degrees above average as we make our way into the east bay heading to most of our interior valleys with antioch and even livermore cooling down into the low 90s the widespread 80s for everyone else santa rosa 84 degrees 82 for fremont and san jose 87 degrees for your monday afternoon taking a quick check out your 10 at 10 outlook were going to begin a gradual cooling trend starting tomorrow lasting through midweek and we are going to see an increase in that cloud cover and strong sea breeze but then more sunshine by later into your workweek forecast and into next weekend with low 90s returning to the bay area inland valleys and then we are gradually going to warm up to near average 10 days from now back to you going to be alright bree said that wraps up kron 4 news at 10. 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