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KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon July 12, 2024

More than 6000 cases for the same time yesterday. 5500 deaths and our state alone and in the bay area it has surpassed 20,000 in the bay area has seen 537 deaths. East bay officials monitoring an outbreak in concord. 13 residents have died of suspected or confirmed coronavirus infections. Officials have not said when the residents have died. So far more than 2200 Nursing Homes in california have died from covid19. The government Top Health Officials on capitol hill testifying before congress about the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony fauci along with the head of the cdc and fda officials and giving lawmakers an update. He remains cautiously optimistic that a vaccine will be ready and is concerned about the number of spikes as test continue to be positive and reopen. We are seeing a disturbing surge of infections. One of the things is an increase of community spread. Im quite concerned about that. Right now the next couple of weeks will be critical and our in our ability to address those urgings we are seeing in florida, texas and arizona and other states. Dr. Fauci and other experts said there will be more coronavirus testing even testing up to 50,000,000 people per month nationwide by the fall. Following that surge of cases across the u. S. , officials are examining levels of restrictions on public gatherings. Kc seal has the story from dallas. More than 2. 3 million coronavirus cases and its still spreading quickly. 22 states reporting a surge of new infections prompting local officials to reimpose social distancing rules and crackdown onlocal officials are following orders from Governor Abbott to increase enforcement of safety protocols while keeping the state open for business. Our goal is to save lives rather than enforcement and fines. The surge of new cases is the result of increased testing but the testing Positivity Rate is increasing and officials in beach states like florida and South Carolina have been seeing a big spike among 20 and 30 yearolds since memorial day. Everyone is lounging on the beach. Unfortunately those people will keep this going. Despite the increased governors and most of the 50 states are moving ahead with reopening including nine this week and they say its possible to get folks back to work safely and some Business Owners say they are not getting enough support and are afraid the outbreak could come back stronger. The worst thing that could happen for tourism for us right now is to have a second wave come through and have to shut down again. We are seeing a daily average of 3500 cases here in texas and if we maintain the course they will be forced to take additional action. Thats the latest from dallas. Ktvu fox 2 news. A powerful 7. 4 earthquake shook southern mexico. The epicenter was located in the southern mexico state of oaxaca on the pacific coast. The governor said it killed one person and seriously injured another when a building collapsed. There are reports of damages to homes and people in mexico city , almost 300 miles away say they felt the earthquake. Mexico city has an earthquake alarm system. We spoke with one resident that says she and her family had enough time to get to a safe location by the time the ground started shaking. It started moving really fast and hard. It was in a circular motion. Literally the ground youre standing on is moving. The earthquake was felt in guatemala and parts of central america. The u. S. National Oceanic Administration said theres a tsunami threat in the region with waves 35 feet above regular wavelength. Use of force with Santa Clara County deputies. Allie rasmus joins us live and good afternoon. The discussion about the reforms started 15 minutes ago and it is still underway. The board of supervisors is meeting today and they could take steps to require the Sheriffs Office to review and change the use of force policies and banned the use of chokeholds and restrict when they can shoot and when another officer is using excessive force. They were sponsored by county supervisor joseph midian. I frankly find these common sense on their face and and at least i hope they will be relatively manageable for us all to embrace. Also today, the santa clara board of supervisors will vote on three separate resolutions. One would publicly affirm black lives matter, another with declared racism a Public Health crisis and the third would support a state constitutional amendment to reintroduce affirmative action at Public Institutions and colleges. The meeting and discussion on these topics is still underway and we monitored the story and we will monitor what is happening online and in our later forecast. Reporting live, allie rasmus, ktvu fox 2. Major changes coming to seattles chop zone. Racial inequality continues and reporter william la jeunesse has the story. Reporter seattle hills Occupied Zone could soon be dismantled. The mayor will phase down the area and returned Police Officers to the precinct. It comes after weekend shootings with one dead and two wounded and officials are asking people to voluntarily leave the area at night. Peaceful demonstrations can continue but the violence cannot. We are working with people to deescalate. We are telling people its time to go home. Reporter protesters establish the zone over nationwide protests over George Floyds death. The area is violent at night. Police responded to a shooting on saturday and say they encountered a hostile crowd. People living near the zone are frustrated with the violence. This is not my city anymore and i want it back. Reporter protests continued to take place nationwide. Police used tear gas to disperse a cloud near city hall. While in washington d. C. They tried to take down a statue of andrew jackson. The president is going to take action. Reporter people can study that and they can hated and ke down George Washingtons nt statue. Seattles mayor says she will consider additional action people do not voluntarily leave the chop zone. In los angeles, william la jeunesse, carquinez bridge. President trump is in yuma, arizona, today touring the 200 mile wall on the mexico border and he participated in a briefing. He toured it in the south west corner of the state. It finished an older border barrier there. The president is attending a student youth rally and thousands have lined up to get in. Despite the fact that arizonas has been one of the biggest hotspots for the covid19 outbreak. Still to come. A 1yearold intentionally caught on at a yogurt shop. Why the woman did it and the video is released in hopes of tracking her down. Outside its another hot one for me bay area cities and rosemary will have that full forecast coming up for you after the break. You have a the power to know when you wake up with mornings on 2. You have the power to know wherever you go when you download the ktvu fox 2 news app. A situation developing in the south bay were San Jose Police say a moment intentionally caught on a 1 yearold board. It was taken the evening of friday, june 12th on coloma road at yogurt lane. A mother wasnt properly socially distancing and the suspect was upset. She took off her own mast and coughed two or three times in the woman is wanted for assault. Anyone with information please call San Jose Police. In San Francisco a shooting left five people wounded. It happened at leavenworth near eddie street in the tenderloin district. Ktvu amber lee has the story. Reporter multiple gunshots rang out in San Franciscos tenderloin in front of a residential hotel. We ducked down and holy cow. It was scary. It was so loud, really loud. Everybody just started diving toward the ground. This woman was standing at the Street Corner when she saw a man with the gun driveby. A guy in a van, he had a blast mask on or something and i seen the gun in the window. Reporter she tells me the gunman fired six to 10 shots from a handgun. I heard him shooting. Everyones getting down on the ground. I was scared and i got down. Reporter another witness shared the cell phone video of the people who were shot. Four men all taken away by ambulance in the hospital. Police say their injuries are not lifethreatening. A fifth victim was later located with what appears to be a minor contract mode. That man declined to be transported to the hospital. Police have not yet said what the motive was for the shooting. Its almost every day, pop, pop. Its almost every day i heard that sound. Described what you here today. Ive heard three shots. Reporter flora owns this minimarket across the street from the shooting and it brings back painful memories of her nephew who was killed while closing the store. Almost 10 years ago my nephew was killed. We could not find the people who shot him. Reporter neighbors say that this could have killed an innocent bystander. There are too many kids down here. They hope they catch the person. Reporter police say so far, no one has been found. In San Francisco, tran20, ktvu fox 2 news. After a great start to the day the sun has come out and ktvu meteorologist Rosemary Orozco is here. Its warming up out there. Inland cities in the 80s and along the coastline mostly cloudy and temperatures cool. Lets take a look at whats going on outside our doors there at sfo oh. We have a light onshore breeze that helps keep temperatures comfortable along the coast and inside the bay. You can see some fog holding on near sfo. Temperature wise San Francisco 62 degrees and 66 reported in oakland. A mild one for you there but low 80s and livermore and san jose checking in at 79. Getting into the 24 hour temperature change you notice one of the spots is cooler than where we were 24 hours ago. Fairfield down by four degrees or so everyone else similar to how we were on monday and the wind, onshore breeze and 20 miles an hour. Oakland reporting northwest at 13 and coming in the northeast at lovato in this type of pattern lands to variable wind. We are not losing the seabreeze completely. The coastline with see temperatures a lot warmer than what we are seeing. For today and for the next few days we go with partly sunny skies up the coast. Seeing a little bit of clearing over areas like santa cruz and kept a walk. Our south facing breezes with the fog working close to the coast. Friday we fluctuate just a little bit. Our inland cities could cool it down just slightly. Afternoon highs for today right where we should be at 83. San francisco 66. 73 in oakland and 94 in livermore. A bit toasty and 85 expected at san jose and a better look around and afternoon highs and 80 degrees for san rafael and in a spate 100 degrees for areas like antioch and brentwood. Low 70s and oakland and 66 expected the afternoon high for san high for San Francisco and into the south bay. 82 Mountain View and 90 degrees los gatos and 91 expected for santa cruz. When i come back i will have a look at the temperatures for the rest of the week and the cooldown for the weekend. , gasia . How firefighters are working to teco the fire problem. San francisco firefighters are responding to a fire at the presidio. The third piece by andy old with very has been in the fire. They dont know if it was intentionally set but they confirmed no other structures were damaged and no one was hurt. Today pg e planted and outlined the steps to reduce the number of planned blackouts and well address how they will warn residents in advance of the shut out Solano County is among the many areas that have been ravaged by wildfires in recent years. Pg e is more than halfway through its Vegetation Management program that includes more than 100 and power lines and installing stronger poles and putting lines underground. Pg e crews are working to separate the power grid lo w the utility to shrink the size of power shutoffs by a third. We hear from a lot of people who are angry about the illegal fireworks exploding. Ktvu Maureen Naylor has the story. Summer has started with a bang and actually many illegal areas. Two oakland in downtown san jose bay area residents say for the past three or four weeks theyve been subjected to a nonstop barrage of illegal fireworks. This year it started in mid may and it is every single day. Last night at 3 30 a. M. They were going off. This has been the worst year by far. Reporter jeff levine lives in downtown san jose and said all hours of the day and more explosives than area followed works works. It wakes you up when the windows rattle and somebodys blowing off a quarter stick of dynamite, it maybe a few houses away. As an example the last roughly four or five nights i dont think ive gotten more than one hour of interrupted sleep. Reporter last year they made two arrests and issued seven online citations and responded to 15 fires. Plus confiscated 300 pounds of illegal fireworks and this year they put up digital billboards and asked neighbors report neighbors. Let them know you will report them. We need your partnership. We cannot be everywhere at once. The online reporting system is flawed requiring them to catch someone in the act. Suzanne maroney said it affects her dog and her combat veteran husband who suffers from ptsd and says only Police Action will make a difference. Without enforcement its not working. Its an order for failure and im fed up by them. Police say they had to cancel a Pilot Program set for july 4th this year to have Police Target hot spots. A cut to the overtime budget and shifting priorities cancel that. Maureen naylor, ktvu fox 2 news. Is it in his planned at san ramon today ahead of the district proposed budget. Unified School District could face a 17 million shortfall for the 2020, 2021 school year. Nora zahniser said they are protesting unnecessary spending by the district and reminded the board that its job is to ensure our children are educated and their teachers are employed and it starts at 4 30 a. M. In danville. The company that makes roundup will not have to label made the yesterday. California was trying to require bayer ag to put a cancer label. The judge says the cancer label is not backed by findings. Bear said the ruling is important. Bayer is facing lawsuits by more than 50,000 roundup users who claimed the product causes cancer. Still to come. The school in san jose among the first to reopen its doors. Changes in place to keep students safe. Plus, the 49ers it showing solidarity for the black lives Matter Movement and the new display out at levi stadium. 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. As california deals with an increase in coronavirus cases, Governor Newsom is warning the state could call os back down if the virus continues to spiral out of control. Sara zendehnam has the story. Reporter california has the secondhighest number of coronavirus cases in the country right behind new york. Governor gavin newsom says if we are more thoughtful it can lower our numbers and avoid another shutdown. A single day record of 6000 new positive cases of the coronavirus in california brings this state total to nearly 84,000. But the state we impose newly lifted shelter in place orders. And want to make this clear. We dont want to do it but we will if we must. Reporter 35 have happened in the last two weeks. In that time the state saw a 16 increase in hospitalizations and an 11 increase in icu admissions. Despite an increase in hospitalizations, and the total number of icu patients, our Capacity Remains fairly stable. The bay area seeing an uptick. 20,000 cases and more than 500 deaths. As parts of the state reopen Governor Newsom says its up to local officials to tighten if they start to regress. At the county level and within industries within the counties, we need to be prepared to do that. Newsom says avoiding the possibility of taking steps backwards depends on not. Wear your mask and practice physical distancing. Continue hiding that is so foundational in terms of mitigating the spread. Reporter sara zendehnam, ktvu fox 2 news. Covid19 cases it san quentin prison is on the rise. The number of people that are confirmed is that 300. The sharp increase after 21 inmates from chino were transferred and mixed with the same people in the chino present has been hit hard and more than 500 cases have been reported and 15 cases have died. Dozens of Staff Members tested positive for the coronavirus at lodi. Adventist Health Memorial lodi and all Staff Members are undergoing testing which well continue for the next several weeks. There is a concern if there is a large number of cases in a certain setting. The countys Contact Tracing to nail down how they caught covid19. Thousands of employees at a Waste Disposal company in the north bay have tested positive. It happened at marin sanitation service. Some employees became sick earlier this month and were diagnosed with covid19. All employees were tested and 43 tested positive. Thats 15 of the workforce there. We had to employees get pretty sick and we had four or five or six employees who exhibited the symptoms and what home right away and got tested. The others were in shock. They were asymptomatic. County Health Officials believe the Virus Outbreak is contained there and the virus may have been transmitted between employees w

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