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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon July 13, 2024

Californians who have filed has fallen to the lowest rate in two months. The Labor Department says 212 thousand workers in the state filed for firsttime Unemployment Benefits last week. The Development Department is looking to boost staff to handle the flood of unemployment claims brought on by the shutdown. The department is looking to hire 1800 people along with the 3000 workers on the job. The edd needs people to help process claims and handle phone calls. They are looking for people with accounting and auditing experience. Demanding justice for george floyd. The unarmed africanamerican man who died while in Police Custody in minnesota. An officer seen with the knee on his neck. Protests are planned right here for today and tomorrow and all this taking place after demonstrations from los angeles to minneapolis turned violent and William Montanez has the story. Reporter smoke was out of building of minneapolis after another night of calling for justice for george floyd. The black man who died while in Police Custody. The crowd set fires and looted nearby Stores Leaving behind broken windows in degree. One looter was fatally shot. If people are there, truly there to honor the memory of the decedent of the family, this is not how you do it. The demonstration started out peacefully but later turned violent as protesters threw rocks and bottles at police who responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and tear gas. Their calling for the officers to be charged. The family has not been shy about what they want. They want him arrested for murder because they injured george floyd. A white officer has his knee on floyd neck as he was lying in the street. He matched on the description who used a forged check. After several minutes he became unresponsive and found dead at the hospital. There are two violations here. There is murder and the use of lethal force and legal force to deprive him of his civil rights. The president is ordering the Justice Department to investigate. William montanez. Fox two news. An Investigation Underway in the city of san jose after multiple people were hurt. In all five men were shot just before 10 00 p. M. Last night. A man walked up to the men who were standing in the driveway of an apartment complex shot the men each want. All were transported with non life threatening emergencies. Police are looking for a shooter and none was released as of yet. Rotary park Police Investigating a deadly shooting of a man and a parking lot. The shooting happened shortly after 9 00 p. M. In the parking lot of redwood credit union. Police identified the victim but are now releasing information after the family has been identified. Hayward police in the Alameda County days officer investigating an officer involved shooting that someone someone to the hospital and it happened at Sleepy Hollow and bahamas avenue not far from mount eden park. Officers responding to a man with a motorcycle and then banging on doors. A man approached him with the weapon and they shot at him. There is no report on his medical condition. Governor gavin newsom says both the u. S. And california have reached a grim milestone in this pandemic. We have feared a lot better than the other states and the number of deaths in the state as it relates to the pandemic. By no means have weve been immune. The coronavirus killed more than 100,000 americans, officially the most of any country in the world. California has 102,000 cases with more than 3900 deaths. In the bay area 30,000 people have tested positive. At least 434 people have died. Most counties report a rise in the number of cases but experts say these rising numbers do not necessarily say there is a spike because of relaxed restrictions. It could simply be due to more rather more testing. Coronavirus cases at nursing home facilities are on the rise. 1700 patients and staff have died. That includes 342 people between may 14th to may 25th. Skilled and Nursing Homes and nonmedical assisted facilities have accounted for 52 of all recorded for covid19 tests in california. There could be more cases because there is not enough testing and many facilities. The dmv opened up more field offices across the state and in the bay area today after two months where offices were closed all because of the coronavirus pandemic. It is not business as usual. Allie rasmus joins us to talk about some of the big changes. Allie, good afternoon. Good afternoon, mike. In most cases you will need an appointment to get something done at the newly reopen dmv office. Once inside you will notice new social distancing measures. Mass are required if you go and more than half of the chairs are now gone. The new precautions taken now that the California Department of Motor Vehicles has opened up 71 of its field offices. We want people to bring paperwork and patients. We are requiring people to stand six feet apart. We have very few cheers in the lobby. We are trying to do our best. Several offices in the bay area reopened in fremont at the Oakland Coliseum pittsburgh san mateo daly city and corte madera and this is what it look like in pleasanton. People who did not have appointments were turned away. How do i renew my license . Most things you need to do at the dmv can be done online. There are specific urgent needs that will be taking care of with walkin. Some of the specific urgent needs you can walk in for include anything to do with the commercial drivers license and things like paying for an impounded car. Dmv reps say they hope to have the remaining 100 field offices that are still called open by next month. Reporting live allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2. We do have more information now on counties and services reopening on the ktvu news app. There is a running list of what is going on there right there near the top of the page. Still to come at noon. More california counties are reopening. Sonoma county is saying not so fast. Why they are defending their efforts plus. The president calling it a big day for social media and fairness. I have more on the president signing an executive order targeting social media companies. Some parts of the bay area are seeing temperatures about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. Some like the break and tomorrow and even bigger cool down on the way. Marc tamayo will have your full forecast coming up. Take a look at stocks right now. Investors looking past this economic data. 2. 1million just last week. The dow jones up one half of 1 . The s p up nearly 1 is experiencing its longest win streak dating back to the month of february. President trump is preparing to sign an executive order aimed at curbing the Liability Protections for social media companies. Reporter Lauren Blanchard has the story. Reporter the United States is not reporting more than 100,000 coronavirus deaths. This, as the Labor Department is saying another 2. 1 million americans filed for unemployment last week bringing the total of job losses near 41 million. It is a large number and we have to get acknowledge that this is a challenging time for workers across the country. The president rolling out an executive order to rollback Legal Protections for social media platforms, which under current law are protected by lawsuits and content prepared by them. This is a big day for social media and fairness. This comes during a fight with twitter after the fact checked two of his tweets. The president along with republicans, say there is a bias on social media but the order will likely be challenged. We have seen some egregious actions by twitter and to single political motivation was there. The ceo said our intention is to connect the dots to show the information in dispute so people can judge for themselves. On capitol hill Democratic Leaders polling the revised bill on the foreign intelligence act and the lost support. Its no surprise. The administration and those in the Justice Department really dont want a bill that protects protections for the american people. Reporter the white house considering a formal Government Commission that would investigate antibias and big social media platforms. Lauren blanchard, ktvu fox 2 news. South carolina people are dealing with heavy rain and flooding after Tropical Storm bertha named landfall and the second named tropical system. At landfall bertha had sustained winds of 50 miles per hour. Bertha will weaken as it moves northward from West Virginia to Northern Canada by the end of today. Cooling centers are open again today as the bay area deals with the last of the heat wave. Cypress seven trees in Camden Community centers will be open from 1 00 p. M. Until 7 00 p. M. People will be screened before they come in and they have to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of the virus. There are no plans to open tomorrow because temperatures are expected to cool down. Four cooling centers will be open today and tomorrow. The offices in antioch, appliances to hell, hercules and richmond will be open until 5 00 p. M. For seniors and people with disabilities giving them a chance to cool off. Anyone entering those facilities must practice social distancing and where a mouth covered. s still warm and some pockets but cooler there where we were 24 hours ago. As we make bring in marc tamayo with us. As we wake up its nice to feel that marine layer north of the golden gate here. Rate. Taking off the edge of the extreme heat. More high numbers inland but everyone cooling off for today. Especially as we head after friday into the weekend. The main source for today. Its back near the coast and our live camera showing you that looking out above the fog looking out over the golden gate bridge. Stubborn clouds over portions of San Francisco along the coastline. That impacthe graphics for you showing you the highs from yesterday. We are showing you the wednesday highs. 96 in santa rosa. Oakland 81. Livermore 100 degrees. San jose 94. A bunch of down arrows. No more triple digits for today. Livermore 99 degrees. Fairfield 87, livermore 84. San jose in the upper 70s and a chilly 57 with 59 degrees out toward the coast and right around San Francisco. These numbers are cooler compared to yesterday this time. Santa rosa 16 degrees cooler than this time yesterday and as we widen out the view there is a circulation out here and this guy is approaching the bay area bringing in some more cooling and we are talking showers here. Chances of thunder friday night , possibly dried lightning. The concern is we could have a thunderstorm not producing any rainfall. Maybe a Lightning Strike that could lead to fire starts increasing to fire danger. Showers and thunderstorms as we head through the 1st half of the weekend. In fact as we get closer area of low clouds and fog and we are pretty good onshore wind as well. As far as the overnight lows mainly in the 50s. Once again the partly cloudy skies near the coast and near the bay and a cooler weather pattern 60s to the 80s and 90s and it will be warm inland with the temperatures backup around 9394. Maybe 95 degrees but we are not talking about any triple digits for this afternoon. Here we are tomorrow morning showing you low clouds and fog near portions of the bay and scattered high clouds throughout the bay. Friday night we bring in the possibility of a thunderstorm or two and maybe a few showers. This saturday we could track showers first thing saturday morning 6 00 a. M. And then 10 00 a. M. The main action to be north of the bay area into the afternoon hours and on sunday a lot of clouds moving in. Mostly sunny skies and coastal fog. San francisco mid 60s. A lot of 70s around the bay and temperatures inland heating wil through friday. We could track a few isolated storms and showers, especially, north of the golden gate bridge. The cooler weather pattern remains in place sunday into monday of next week. Going from heat advisorys to cooler temperatures to maybe some showers and storms. A lot to talk about in this forecast and we will have another update coming up in just a minute. Still to come. Recognizing kids at Pleasant Hill and the milestone for those students. New at noon. The California Public Utilities Commission is considering pges bankruptcy organization plan. Right now they are listening to comments. Pg e plans to implement changes to improve operations and governance for the longterm. Most of the comments you see is in opposition of the plan. And calling in to oppose the cgd payout. They say ratepayers must be protected and not be faced with the failures of pg e. Prepare should be given a share of ownership of the company. They want to qualify for state Wildfire Fund and they have an estimate 30 billion and wildfire liabilities. Parents in the valley are protesting against the district pay raises for administrators, and the bonus for the superintendent. A group of parents gathered this morning outside of the construct County School district. They are upset they approved an annual 2. 5 cost of living age for district administrators. The retiring superintendent is set to receive an 18 thousand bonus while the district faces in a Million Dollar budget shortfall this year. They voted for saying this is a tradition. We negotiated this before covid. Guess what. A lot of people have lost their their bonuses and their salaries are being reduced. Too bad its a tradition. A lot of peoples traditions have changed because of covid. The district says the 2. 5 raise is giving management is exactly the same race giving to teachers this year. An Elementary School at Pleasant Hill celebrating its ongoing fifth grade class, even though its typical promotion ceremony had to be canceled. Efforts to prevent the spread has shut down graduations across the country and administrators are holding a drivethrough celebration to make sure they recognize their 5th graders. Parents are grateful for todays event and the hard work the teachers have been putting in. I am thankful for them putting this together. They have done such a great job. The teachers doing what they can. And them coming together to resume meetings and being able to do that. It is working out. Teachers and staff are handing out certificates and flowers to the students, and providing fun photo ops. Spacex scrubbed the First Manned Mission to space from u. S. Soil in near than a decade. Just 16 minutes down. Phil keating has the report of when the next opportunity for launch will be. Reporter americans will have to wait. Dragon spacex, unfortunately, we are not going to launch today. Reporter the milestone mission is days away. Spacex and nesson teamed up for the experimental flight marking the first time in history a private company is carrying a crew in orbit and nine years since america sent men into space. We continue to violate a couple of different weather rules that we now do not expect to clear in time. Thunderstorms scrubbing the planned launch in which veteran astronauts doug hurley and bob bacon were scheduled to blast off prepared by the falcon nine rocket. Prior to the cancellation it was all systems go and all smiles as they committed last minute preparation for the launch. They wants through the same double doors. Deals all strong buzz cauldron used before landing on the moon. The big goodbye to families and were taken nine miles to launch pad 39 and a tesla model x and boarded the shuttle. Before they can make the next giant leap into history the mission was halted. Hurley and bacon will have to wait until saturday to make their Historic Mission from the launch pad to the space station and the mission is expected to last anywhere between one and four months. At the Kennedy Space center. Phil keating. Fox news. Still to come. More layoffs announced here in the bay area. We take a closer look at the Economic Impact of the coronavirus and the businesses still looking to make cuts. When the murrays started using gain ultra flings. They fell head over heels in love with its irresistible scent. Looks like their dog michelangelo did unfortunately for him, its more of a forbidden love. New gain ultra flings with two times oxi boost and febreze. Seriously good scent. And if you love gain flings, youve gotta try the dish soap. Heres what we want everyone to do. Count all the hugs you havent given. All the hands you havent held. All the dinners you didnt share with friends. The trips you havent taken. Keep track of them. Each one means one less person vulnerable, one less person exposed, and one step closer to a healthier community. So for now, keep your distance. But dont lose count. Well have some catching up to do. The mayor of minneapolis is urging peoplekeep the peace. He is asking the governor of the state to deploy the National Guard to help respond two additional protests. Ministrations began peacefully as crowds demanded justice for george floyd, the African American man who died after Police Officer pinned him down on his neck. Then they looted businesses and set buildings on fire. One border was shot and killed, possibly by a shop owner. This morning the mayor addressed the protests. And emotion risen conflict over last nights protests. Anger and sadness that has been ingrained in our black community. Not just because of 5 minutes of horror by 400 years. The mayor called for charges to be filed aga

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