County reason. Professor of epidemiology says we clearly have Community Transmission and he says testing remains a key way to monitor and manage the growth rate of infection. You dont achieve Public Health goals by not testing the people who are infected, you find the people who are infected, diagnosing them and putting them into isolation and tracing their contacts. Southern california has seen the largest increase. He believes that early bay area stayathome orders may have saved thousands of lives. Today, the governor declared a budget emergency to support the state response to the covid19 outbreak. This allows legislators to dip into the rainy day fund. Reporter monitored the News Conference and has more. It is something to worry about. The governor has always said that we reopen the economy, we will see a rise in cases and that is because the virus is, was and continues to be out there. The rate of positive test for coronavirus has been 5. 1 for the previous two weeks and now has crept up as the state has opened up. At 5. 6 Positivity Rate in the last seven days. Reporter in the last three days we have seen a short spike in cases and and record daily high as we test more and more people. Yesterday we had a record high 7149 people that tested positive. You can see, today, that number dropped to 5349. We see roughly 56,000 new cases just in the last 14 days and points of obvious and real concern. Reporter the number of hospitalizations is also up which could and being a reopening surge. Yesterday i shared a slide with you that showed 29 increase in hospitalizations over 14 day period. You can see it has increased slightly to 32 . Reporter in human terms that is 400 people on their backs and rising with an 18 increase in admissions to intensive care units in the last two weeks. Is not a sufficient explanation for the increase we see. Reporter the governor says the states ability to respond to a major surge is well in hand right now. As we see in so many states that can change rapidly. Beaches in Santa Cruz County will reopen after Officials Say it has become impossible to keep enforcing. The order was put in place was supposed to expire on july 6. The Health Officer says Law Enforcement was having a hard time keeping away. A week from today six flags discovery kingdom in vallejo will partially reopen. Guest can see the animals and marine life. It is an animals only experience as rides will be close. The number of visitors has been reduced and extensive new Safety Measures have been put in place to keep people safe and comfortable. Tickets need to be purchased online and in advance. Dozens of states are reporting a Record Number of our cases. Laura ingle tells us that the numbers come a day after the United States saw their largest oneday increase since the beginning of the outbreak. Reporter Public Health officials are scrambling to contain a spike of cases. On wednesday there were nearly 39,000 new cases were hoarded in the United States. The uptake mostly coming from states in the south and west prompting a new 14 day quarantine order from the governors of new york, new jersey, and connecticut applying to visitors from the hardest hit states. I understand where Governor Cuomo is coming from, but whenever you are looking at growing the economy, this is not particularly helpful to that. Reporter the new surges having a major impact on Hospital Systems especially in texas where greg abbott signed an order to increase icu capacity and also announced a temporary halt to the reopening plan hoping to slow the spread and give hospitals time to free up more beds. To get to an emergency capacity which is pull out all the stops, use all the space. That is not sustainable for more than a couple of weeks. Reporter lawmakers are spending a second straight day looking at the federal response. The focus thursday is the Economic Impact with some democrats questioning wheteher enough emergency money was appropriated. It is important we do Everything Possible so Small Business can get capital. Reporter they say they hope to have another stimulus bill ready after the fourth of july recess. Health officials believe as many as 20 million have had the coronavirus. That is almost 10 times more than the number of confirmed cases in the United States suggesting that millions of people have the virus and never knew it. 20 million infections means that about 6 of the population has been infected. The number of californians filing new unemployment claims keeps going up. The state says 287,000 people filed for jobless insurance last week. That is up from 241,000 the previous week. Another 80,000 selfemployed filed for federal health. 6. 7 million have received assistance since the start of the pandemic. We represent about 11 to 12 of the civilian labor force nationwide. This morning, our claims were over 20 of all the claims filed nationwide. Officials with the Employment Development department say they have paid more than 33 billion in benefits. Coming up at 5 30 we will have more on these numbers and details on a 13 week extension of Unemployment Benefits that will soon become available. We go to oakland where the School District grab and go meal program has been such a success. They have distributed more than 3 million meals since the pandemic began. Staff and volunteers at the 24 grab and go sites handing out four days worth of meals to students and their families. Some people took on pet food, diapers and other necessities. Since the closures on march 16 the district has given out 300 tons of groceries from the allegheny food bank. That is about 2. 8 million meals as of today. An accused shoplifter died during a fight with an employee. It happened at the lucky supermarket just before 10 00 last night. Our Crime Reporter is here with more on what happened. Reporter what we know is that two men got in a fight and the suspect ended up dead. We dont know why he died and if this was a case of self defense. It started with a theft on this store. Police say an employee knows the man trying notices the man trying to steal meat behind the butcher shop. The employee confronted the suspect shoplifter and they began fighting with each other. Some kind of a physical disturbance. Reporter have some point the suspect stopped breathing. They found one suspect unconscious with no pulse. The officers began doing cpr. Reporter the thief was 34 and from antioch. He is probably trying to feed his family. You never know. Reporter the employee was hurt and taken to the hospital. Police are investigating. It is unclear if the suspect died from injuries from the fight or had a medical emergency. Many supermarkets instruct their employees not to confront shoplifters. They say it is not worth the risk or the liability. A spokesman would not address the issue, but said the safety of our boys and customers is a top priority. We are working with the Police Department on their ongoing investigation. Shoppers we spoke to had mixed reaction. From a security standpoint i would say, dude, go, dont come back. It is no point in me getting physical. If it is in selfdefense yes, it is tragic that a life was taken especially over shoplifting, but if you attack the employee and everything is in selfdefense. Reporter if Police Believe terminal charges could be warranted they will bring a case to the das office for review. A new way forward to keep students safe in the School District. Coming up tonight, what the district has planned after they voted to pull officers from campus. People social media id the woman in this now infamous video. We now know the woman intentionally coughed on a one yearold works at bay area School District. Coming up, we speak to the mother. The attorney general is moving with his called for Police Reform. He is discussing the topic at the innovations topic. It is an online event where experts and advocates discuss ideas and proposals to transform and shrink the criminal justice system. This is the fourth year the conference has been held, this one comes with a sense of urgency because of the demands for Police Reform and social justice. What we are trying to do now is do practices, you wont get to it all the way if the only thing you do is come up with the best practice because of you have best practice people who learn to be racist, that will be very tough. Earlier this month unveiled measures to Reform Police which include spanish polls and requiring officers to intervene to stop a colleague from using excessive force. Part appears their budget bart approved their budget. Because of the plunge and ridership. It does include 190 million in cuts and a oneyear hiring freeze and that includes for new Police Officers. The board approved a resolution to focus on new ways to deal with riders who are homeless or suffering Mental Health issues without relying on armed officers. It is been a month since george floyd was killed and the push for Police Reform continues. House democrats are proposing a wideranging bill, but our reporter tells us it is likely to fail in the senate due to the lack of compromise. Reporter the house is set to vote on the George Floyd Justice and policing act one month after he died pleading for help after an officer held his knee on his neck. They say it bands to colds, eliminates qualified immunity that protects officers from lawsuits and increases reporting and recordkeeping of police use of force. We have had enough of Police Killing black votes. Folks. Bad Police Officers must be held accountable while we focus on rooting out the bad apples we need to remember, the overwhelming majority of Law Enforcement officers are good people. Reporter republicans accusing democrats of writing the bill in a partisan fashion without any input. It is the exact same thing democrats say about the bill they shot down in the senate wednesday. The problem we have and the problem so many have is the substance of the bill. You cant say no and then i have a serious question about getting to a deal. Reporter there is at times antagonistic debate this congressman says there is a lot of common ground. We can pass those that we agree on. Reporter likely not pass the senate forget the president s signature. We will talk weather right now and at this moment, as we week the marine layer is rolling in. It has been playing cat and mouse with my live picture. We have San Francisco and as you can see you have fog. There it is peeking through. Look at the difference in temperatures. San francisco, 62, livermore, 89. That is the difference of the layer bringing that air in and bringing the sun. Santa rosa 78, oakland 67 and 77 in san jose. We have some wind out there an onshore flow that continues through the night tonight and we will see the breeze pick up as we get through the weekend a new system that will roll through. Right now 18 miles an hour at san jose and you can really see the marine layer streaming into the bay. As we zoom out, you can see the Bigger Picture that it has been hugging the coast all day and cooler along the coast and now we will move in and it will cool us down. Check this out. The thunderstorms popping right now in the sierra with lots of lightning coming up. That is because the heat of the day helps to kick those off and that is where we see that convection. That part of the state under a heat advisory and you can see if you move closer to home that is for other counties in effect until eight and 10 pm and that is because the marine layer doesnt make it in that far. They get the impact of the High Pressure causing the heat and that is why they see triple digits where we have had more triple digits. Tonight, again, we will see that marine layer roll in. Temperatures expecting and we wake up tomorrow with a little more fog and low clouds with us again. A very similar day as today was and tomorrow will be cool along the coast and nice around the bay. We will see some of those 70s and 80s and see some of that heat inland. We will see some in the 90s tomorrow and we have a very big change as we go toward the weekend. We will cool down a little bit. I will talk all about that when i come back in a little bit. It will be windy and cool and a little bit of a change coming your way. The video would make anyone angry. A woman intentionally coughing in a childs face because she thought he was too close. People have track down where she works. It turns out she works at a bay area School District. Coming up, a pride tradition gets underway in San Francisco with some changes due to the pandemic. The cdc has listed three new symptoms of the coronavirus. What you need to watch out for if you think you have been exposed. You can save for an emergency from here. Or pay bills from here. So when someone asks you, wheres your bank . You can tell them heres my bank. Or heres my bank. Or, heres my bank. Because if you download and use the chase mobile app, your bank is virtually any place. Visit chase. Com mobile. It is a viral video showing a woman pulling off her mask and coughing in the face of a oneyearold boy and a yogurt shop in san jose. The mother has said it was because the woman thought that she wasnt following social distancing. Our reporter tells us it has come to light that the woman involved may be a schoolteacher. Reporter the oak grove School District put out a statement saying they dont tolerate conduct that compromises a childs safety. The victim in this case says that she would like them to take action. I took my sontroop she was horrified and even more upset when she find out who was responsible, a schoolteacher. The woman apparently angry that she was standing too close and a yogurt land intentionally coughed on her oneyearold son. It happened so fast that she took three or four steps as shes taking off the mask and cough in my sons face three times really hard. The woman is allegedly is will teacher. There is more to this story than she does coughed on the baby, the school needs to take action. Reporter a petition is calling for the teacher to be fired. The School District released a statement saying please be assured that we hear you, we share your sense of outrage and will take appropriate steps once the identity of the individual is confirmed. The identity has been made public in some social media post, we are not identifying her because she has not been charged with a crime. Or has been released a statement saying my wife has been subjected to false news reporting and says the family has retained a lawyer. There is video proof that she coughed on my sons face. How is that false . Reporter she says her son is traumatized and so is she. She hopes the School District will take action. They say the priority is the children and clearly they are not showing that it is. Reporter San Jose Police are investigating this and say no arrests have been made. The School District says that their employee is off work for the moment and is not dealing with any children. Everyone throws around that turn, fake news, the husband in the statement, did he say specifically what the false news reports are that his wife has been subjected to because you see the video, you see exactly what happened. Reporter i specifically asked that question and he said i will leave it to you guys to figure that out. We will work on that. What is next now that the Oakland School district decided to eliminate the Police Department . The new security measures and staff being considered. A new Clinical Trial on another potential antibiotic to fight coronavirus. Coming up, we will speak to one of the leaders of the Clinical Trial and how you could potentially join. Remote work, the costs keep piling up. Still to come, a look at how much more money people are spending by working at home. And youth rally today about outside the budget meeting. Demonstrators from the group free our kids oppose the plan to spend 42 of the budget on youth detention. They are calling on supervisors to pull 10 million in funding for the facility and to remove foreign half Million Dollar allocation to hire probation juvenile services staff. In this time where there are nationwide call for the dismantling of mass incarceration and calls to defund the police, there are calls to and youth incarceration and youth prison, we think it is important that the budget reflect the values of this community and reflect the values of racial justice. Board of supervisors has not discussed. The unified School District is going to create a new security plan. The students and staff. Last night, as we reported the school board voted to shut down the Police Department in december. Our reporter has been asking that question and joins us live. Reporter when it comes to the safety plan it is out with the old and in with the new and what the new plan will look like is still to be determined. The oakland unified