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61, sunny for all today, it looks pretty good here. Any fog, there could be fog ramping up. It looks good, nice, warm, mild and that low is going to reposition itself along the west coast starting tomorrow. Today is all about sunshine and temperatures pretty close to where they should be this time of year. Lets head over to sal now. Is there a place you would like to begin besides the bay bridge toll plaza . We are going to start at the Richmond Bridge and we do have a little bit of slow traffic there as you come up on the Richmond Bridge. Traffic is going to be a little slow. It is improving a little bit but it was slower about 10 minutes ago. You can see it and this might improve right away but we will keep an eye on it for you. We are also looking at the actual toll plaza of the bay bridge westbound, and that is backed up you and the 880 over causing but 880 itself looks okay. Did a 7 01, lets go to the headlines. Breaking news coming in right now from europe about Global Travel during the coronavirus pandemic. Just a couple of moments ago, the European Union announced that tomorrow, it will be reopening its borders to 14 countries but not the United States. The u. S. Is not one of them. The United States has the most coronavirus cases in the world. Canada, japan, south korea and australia are among the countries that can enter the eu block. Back here at home, new this morning in the east bay, firefighter still battling an overnight dress fire in clayton. It has burned almost 9 acres. It is 70 right now, 75 contained. Officials say fireworks may have started it. This is a grass fire that started last night just before 11 00 near the clayton palms mobile Home Community off march creek road. The very same neighborhood that saw the marsh fire get dangerously close last summer. So far, theres no word on any injuries. Firefighters in pittsburgh made quick work of a fire that they believe fireworks may have started that one as well. This is a fire that started just after 5 30 this morning near kirker pass road and norton bell road. Because it was windy out there, the firefighters will just stay out there to mop up and keep an eye out for any hotspots. Today california and the bay area are expected to reach more sobering covid19 milestones. Our state is expected to hit a quarter million confirmed cases. California also expects to top 6000 deaths. Gavin newsom says another statistic we should be watching as the percentage of positive test. That number is at 5. 5 , up from 4. 4 two weeks ago. The bay areas affected to reach 25,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus today. The governor is planning a states rise in the number and factors including people becoming complacent as well as outbreaks in jails and prisons. Contra costa, santa clara and solano counties are among those on the states socalled watchlist. The governor warned there will be increased enforcement and that relief funding will only go to areas that follow steves health guidelines. We dont like the trend line and that is why, again, this mandatory mask requirement is in effect and that is why, unfortunately, we are using this to start to pull back. Well heeded has already ordered closing bars, he is focused on the upcoming fourth of july weekend. He says he will address concerns about social and family gatherings in the coming days. Six months ago today, the World Health Organization found out about the coronavirus that caused the pandemic. The wh oh says the worst is yet to come. He said Everyone Wants to get back to normal, but we need to learn to live with what is normal now. Although many countries have made some progress, globally, the pandemic is actually speeding up. The solution he says, test, trace, isolate, and quarantine. Also he says, and a country that says Contact Tracing is difficult is offering a lame excuse. The time is now 7 05, air conditioned tents are being set up a san quentin baseball field at the prison. Elissa harrington is here now to tell us that more than 1000 inmates have already tested positive. Good morning. Thats right. The numbers exploded over just the past couple weeks. Was happening in some of the sickest patients are being transferred to hospitals around the area and trash tents are being set up in the prison yard. I have the latest numbers. 1080 prisoners at san quentin have tested positive for covid 19 as well as 100 to employees. The outbreak started in late may and more than 100 inmates were so transferred to san quentin from a prison in chino. The number of cases went from zero to several hundred in a matter of weeks. Mark levine says the department created a Health Crisis by bringing untested inmates into san quentin and being so tourist bond. It is overwhelming them. It is a great concern and san quentin is popping up tents that are airconditioned on campus of the prison to make sure the prisoners have rater physical distancing and for medical triage. Over the weekend, activists and loved ones of inmates held a rally outside of san quentin, demanding to have them released to protect their health. They are concerned because of the close quarters inside the prison and the inability to social distance. We have also learned of one person on death row who was found unresponsive last week and later was pronounced dead. A corner did say that the person tested positive for covid19 but when i looked at the California Department of corrections numbers, they are not listing that as a death connected to san quentin at this time. But again the corner did say that person tested positive. Im elissa harrington, ktvu, fox 2 news. Happening today, dr. Anthony fauci and other Top Health Experts will return to capitol hill at this hour to testify about the surgeon covid 19 cases. Democrats largely argued the u. S. Senate should immediately pass the 3 trillion stimulus bill the house approved a month ago. Senate republicans have done nothing, zilch, nada while the American People continue to suffer. The growing number of lawmakers on capitol hill now pushing for tougher federal requirements on face coverings, california senator Dianne Feinstein what cement a requiring mask for all u. S. Air travelers and writers im mass transit. Three major index this is were down in trading. They want to see what happens at the congressional hearing in which the fed chaired Jerome Powell and Steve Mnuchin will testify. They are expected to answer questions on the Government Economic response to the rapidly growing number of covid 19 cases. You can see that the dow jones is ever so slightly behind sea level after seeing big drops later on. As an speed is up by not quite a quarter of a percent, the nasdaq is but up by almost 2 3 of a present. 1007 08, there plans to reopen businesses in alameda and Contra Costa County. Those two counties join marin and San Francisco in delaying a move to the max reopening phase. Contra costa county is also shutting down bars at the request of the governor. Nail salons, restaurants, dining rooms and gyms will stay closed for the 10th time being. Business owners say they know safety is the most important thing but they are still frustrated. So ready to open, so ready to see my members again and just kind of go back to a sense of normalcy. And it doesnt seem like thats going to be happening soon. They say the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus jumped from 4 to 6 . The biggest increases among younger people. Also rising, the number of patients going to the hospital. The same thing is happening in Alameda County. You can go to the ktvu mobile app to see stories about how some bay area counties are slowing down reopening plans because of the surge in coronavirus cases. The app is a Free Download. I know the winds have died down a bit, but the fire danger lingers and we are seeing fires actually still happening around the bit bay area steve. Is dry even without the wind. Its that time of year. It never used to be this time of year. He used to be august, september october but we have a balloon normal season which we did last year. Every thing is pretty dry right now but thankfully the winds have tailed off. Not much in the way of any fog. The highs yesterday, with the northwind, fairfield made it to 92, but santa rosa, livermore, 87, 86, 85, oakland 74, that is exactly what im going with today. 60s on the coast, just some patchy fog, nice around the bay. There will be an afternoon sea breeze and hazy skies now starting. Were starting to see more hes in the area. 50s and 60s on the temperatures here. Low 60s, a 61s, san jose is in there. Low 50s, look at lima valley. 55. Petaluma is in there, rohnert park is close as well, near 60 around vallejo and american canyon. That low is going to backtrack a little bit and settle in on the west coast as a weekend pressure and i will fall back tomorrow and i think we cool off, the close date of the week looks to be thursday. 60s, 70s, 80s to hear near 90s. Temperatures to write about they should be this time of year. They will reload and went back up especially inland over the Holiday Weekend. Before you go, breaking news, when your favorite entertainers, just died. 98 years old, we will be talking about that. Also ahead, almost 2 years ago, bay area voters of proved atoll height for pay bridges. The question is, was that me measure legal . Coming up, what the court said. And some of the surviving victims of the Golden State Killers speak out as he pleads guilty. You hear their reaction to that plea deal. You have the power to know before you go when you wake up with mornings on 2. Also the power to know everywhere you go when you download the ktvu fox 2 app. Businesses are starting to bounce back. But what if you could do better than that . Like adapt. Discover. Deliver, in new ways, to new customers. What if you could come back stronger . Faster. Better. At comcast business, we want to help you not just bounce back, but bounce forward. And now, with one of our best offers ever, were committed to helping you do just that. Get a powerful and reliable internet and voice solution for only 29. 95 a month for three months. Call or go online today. When we closed our wynn committed instantly to keeping all 15,000 team members onboard. We then focused our fivestar level of service to all who needed it. We made improvements to peoples lives. We strove to be better and we made people happy. This closure may have temporarily taken us out of wynn and encore, but it couldnt take the wynn and encore out of us. And now, we are proud to welcome you back. The former Police Officer known at this the Golden State Killers now facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. Had you plea . Guilty. Rapes six pleaded guilty to dozens of murders and rapes that terrorized people in the 90s 80. Several survivors and relatives of victims were among those attending yesterdays Court Hearing. Is taken two thirds of my life for me. That felt good. It did. I think theres a lot of closure and is having to live the fact that we are hearing every single thing that he said and what he did to us and he is owning it. Yesterdays hearing was held in a ballroom at Sacramento State university. They say the unusual venue was needed to provide proper social distancing for the many victims, witnesses and says and members of the news media attending. A Police Officer was arrested and accused of stalking and making threats to a former romantic partner. Oakland police say the unidentified officers also accused of making annoying and harassing phone calls. Theyre working with the Alameda County District Attorney in the investigation by Police Internal affairs and the Police Review board. And east baystate senator introduced two new bills on police owing. It would make it easier for the public to get the other bill would change the 911 system to allow social Services Professionals to answer calls where you dont need an armed Police Officer. San Francisco City attorney and comptroller making recommendations about how the department of public works can improve transparency after a corruption scandal. That report comes as mohammed new roux, the former head of the Public Works Department and five others have been charged in federal court in connection with fraud. It recommends improving citywide laws, guidance, requirements and also keeping an eye on reducing the risk of fraud and abuse in the contracting process. Maryland and breed says she will take immediate action on the recommendations. New this morning, hollywood is remembering one of its most iconic comedic voices. The writer, actor, and director rapes nine has died. He is probably best known as the creator of the van show. During his career that spanned decades, reiner one nine emmys and a grammy award and had some 400 credits to his name. He was also of course the father of director and act rob reiner. He did have Natural Causes at his home in the really. Carl reiner was 98 years old. Micah had a chance to spend time with him at his home in beverly hills. Just an incredible, wonderful, kind man. As well as talented, which we all know. He will be missed by so many for so much. Our time is 7 18 and sal is here now. You are talking about how busy our traffic is in certain areas. Thats right. And it is getting a little better now at the bay bridge. It is kind of the 6 00 hour was kind of it and now we can see that it is still a little bit slow but it is much better than it was even just a few minutes ago. And that is good news if you are driving on the other bay area freeways. It has been okay here on interstate 880. No problems on the bridges if you are driving on 101 or 280 in san jose, those commutes have been looking good. Lets bring stephen. What about todays weather . I think you know it sal. Theres a lot of sunshine there already on your traffic jams and theres not much in the way of any fog. Tomorrow i think it starts to make an appearance as low pressure reestablishes. It doesnt look that strong but at the end of june and the end of july thats all it takes to get the fog machine going. Cold water out there. Upper 40s, 50s to mid50s. When you get 80s and 90s in length, thats what we are going to get today but around the bay looks pretty good. Patchy fog 67, 55. The average is 67, 54. 93 is the record high in 1927. 47 the record low in 1908. It looks like we bounced off those morning lows. San carlos, hayward at 68 degrees. Now 59, lo 60 saint andrew, hayward, kensington, bookings on 55, we are seeing 50s and 60s for lafayette, pittsburgh 65. Temperatures today will be right about where they should be. That is the law that is going to backtrack and reestablish itself weaker. 60s, 70s, 80s for most and then upper 90s to if you knew 90. These are pretty close to where they should be. A cold on wednesday, looks like the coolest day will be wednesday, little change friday, it does look warmer and lend as we go to the weekend. You may be among the many bay area residents working from home today. Well take a look at the Economic Impact it is having as Companies Make more adjustments. And would you check this out . A roadside in the east bay may have cost some drivers off guard. Well tell you how this happened. 7 23 a. M. 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Most drivers will be paying an extra . 35 so for fasttrack user, the new toll on the bridge will be 7. 70. Some drivers in Contra Costa County were surprised by comments on a mobile roadside message board over the weekend. The sign in brentwood said do not slow for protesters. There is also a disparaging message about liberals and also one that read trump 2020. The public works spokesman said that someone pried open the signed operating system and changed the message. It has since been fixed and the incident was reported to the sheriffs department. Thousands of new u. S. Citizens are being more sworn in and drive up ceremonies in which they take the oath of citizenship, but a budget crisis could put the services at risk. The ceremonies recently resumed with social distancing protocols, but the u. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau has warned that i might be forced to place nearly 3 4 of its workforce on furlough next month. That would lead to severe cutbacks in operations, possibly leaving tens of thousands of people waiting to become u. S. Citizens. Coming up, we have new developments to bring you about reports that russia paid a bounty to kill u. S. Troops in afghanistan. What the administration allegedly new and what is happening today. Plus, we have an update on the fallout from racist post in a Facebook Group involving members of the San Jose Police department. This home is equipped with gig Speed Internet from xfinity. Theres this gametime internetting room. So fun. And then theres this workfromhome internetting room. Finally, the openconcept internetting room. This is not an open house. But your front door was open, so technically it is. Get gig speeds and the most wifi coverage from xfinity. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Enhance your online experience with even faster speed. Choose from a range of fast, reliable options, up to a gig. Click or call to learn more. Dr. Anthony fauci again facing lawmakers on capitol hill this morning. The questions expected today about the trumpet illustrations efforts to contain the coronavirus. Plus, as we get closer to this Holiday Weekend, governor newsome talks about the rise in coronavirus cases. What he says may be behind the surgeon new cases. Thank you for joining us and welcome to mornings on 2. Im dave clark. Good morning im gasia mikaelian. Lets talk about the relatively mild weather we have not for only today but Steve Paulson i understand theres a big holiday coming up this weekend. Many people want to be outside for that. Thats what i hear. Theres a rumor about that. It looks pretty nice here going forward. One forecast model, say hold on the, they look to be cooler after day. A little hazes settling in now. 50s and 60s on the temperatures, pretty deep low there for the end of june going into july. That system will backtrack and settling on the west coast tomorrow but that is not going to stop anything today. Highs pretty close to where they should be at this time of year which is a rarity. One extreme or the other but not today. All over to saddle now. Where would you like to begin . Steve, we do have something that just came up here i wanted to let you know that we have a new backup that i was trying to get. I think i got on the screen here. Guess what . Highway 4 backup his back. I was surprised, but not really but because more people are back. This is what im talking about. Pittsburgh coming up to the bay point area, so that his back and that had been gone for most of the pandemic. But now we are back. San mateo bridge traffic looks all right, 880 traffic looks all right but there is some sewing at the bay bridge. 7 31, lets go back to the headlines. Happening today, dr. Anthony fauci is now getting ready to testify before congress on the current state of the covid19 pandemic. Lets being in sarah reporting live with details of the hearing underway on capitol hill. Good morning. The hearing started about 30 minutes ago i dr. Anthony fauci just started speaking just about one minute ago. We have video of the senate covid19 hearing and we can show that to you and break down exactly what has happened so far. This hearing is an opportunity for an update on how School Officials can safely reopen a few weeks from now and how people can go back to work. Dr. Anthony fauci is joined by the heads of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the fda and health and Human Services to address concerns about coronavirus. Each witness has five minutes for the opening remarks and the nail answer questions. As i entered, dr. Anthony fauci is speaking right now. Senate Health Committee chairman Lamar Alexander says he wants this question to be answered. Will there be transfer our medicines this fall. Treatment should increase the comp confidence that going back to school and work is safe. Right now youre taking a last look at dr. Anthony fauci. Like a mitten, each witness has five minutes for their opening remarks and then they will answer questions. Senator alexander the hearing by talking about the importance of wearing a mask and how it should be a political statement. The simple lifesaving practice has become part of the political debate. Thats is this. If you are for trump, you dont wear a mask, if youre against trump, you do. Thats why is suggested that the president occasionally wear a mask, even though in most cases, it is not necessary for him to do so. The president has plenty of admirers. They would follow his lead. He should submit a comprehensive national were going to take another life lookout at this hearing it right now is dr. Anthony fauci is is speaking we are going to listen and just for a minute on exactly what he is saying. As we approach next month of going into phase three trials and others will be staggered along the way in the middle of the summer and at the end of the summer. Theres no guarantee that anybody has been involved that we will have a safe and effective vaccine but we are cautiously optimistic, looking at our data in the early preliminary data that we will at least know the extent of advocacy sometime in the winter and early part of next year. Again, working with the companies and the investment made with this congress, hopefully there would be doses available by the beginning of next year. These are things that we feel aspirational he hopeful about and we will continue to pursue this. I will stop there mr. Chairman and be happy to answer questions later. Doctor bhati. Is you just heard there, dr. Fauci said that there will be no guarantee that they will have a safe and effective vaccine but they are optimistic based on animal data of the efficacy by next year. This hearing comes just days after health and Human Services secretary alec cesar said that the window is closing for the country to get cases under control of the coronavirus. Of course several states have seen an uptick in cases including california, prompting some governors to roll back on the reopening. This hearing just started at 7 00 this morning. It will continue throughout the morning and you can watch it on our facebook page. We are streaming it live so you can watch it there and will continue to bring you updates throughout the morning. Reporting live, ktvu , fox 2 news. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and Jerome Powell will also be on capitol hill today. They will testify on the federal response to the economic crisis caused by the covid19 pandemic. Secretary minutes and is expected to face tough questions on the government misstep. They will likely defend the federalist fonts to the economic crisis. Governor newsom will give us an update today on the Coronavirus Crisis and also californias efforts to get the homeless into hotel rooms. Surging virus case numbers is also prompting the governor and other leaders to cut back and hold back on reopening plans. The governor says several factors led to the rise, including people being complacent. Also, the outbreaks in jails and in prisons. Over the weekend, the governor oh and ordered them to be closed and recommended the same and eight other counties including contra costa and santa clara counties because of the risk. You are in a bar, you are moving around, your drinking, your mast is off, youre close to other people. The governor also warned there will be more enforcement and that relief funding might only go to areas that follow state health guidelines. The governor is focused on the fourth of july weekend this weekend and in the next few days he says he will talk about concerns for social and family gatherings. New this morning, china has approved allotment to crack down to what the beijing government considers subversive and secessionist activity in hong kong. The National Expert say this is the chinese governments biggest up so far in wiping out Legal Protections for the hong kong territory against chinas authoritarian, communist party system. The democratic lawmakers are heading to the white house today to talk about how russia paid a bounty to kill u. S. Troops. There is an allegation that the Trump Administration knew about possible russian bounties more than a year ago. White house Officials Say there wasnt a consensus about the validity of the report that wasnt sent to the president. Now like makers from both parties are demanded to be told more. Democrats want to know who knew what and when. President trump, you lose either way. If you werent briefed on this important report, how can you run an administration where something this important is not brought to your level . And if you were told about the report and did nothing, that is even worse. A spokesman for the kremlin denied reports. A judge in minnesota warning he may move the trials and the death of george floyd out of minneapolis. He said that during the second Pretrial Hearing of the four former minneapolis Police Officers who have been tarred and says he doesnt want lawyers on either side, Public Officials or family members talking about the case in public. None of the Police Officers have enter please and two of them are now free on bail. The next Court Hearing in the case is set for september 11th, but the trial is not expected to start until next spring. It is 7 38. San jose city leaders as well as Community Activists are demanding police reforms. For current Police Officers have been suspended accused of belonging to a private Facebook Group the posted racist messages. The website called medium public examples of some of those post such as black lives dont really matter. Some of the comments that i have seen absolutely abhorrent, i was shocked by some of them. We told you that these cops exist in your department and you keep saying they dont do we keep telling you do. The Police Department can discipline retired officers are posted on the website, but chief garcia is not ruling out firing the current officers. The Police Association is also condemning it. Sam liccardo hopes these revelations will lead to positive change which is within the culture of the police. We are going to check in with Steve Paulson. You said something that has become all too true lately. Fire season used to start in august. Now it is all yearround. Honestly when i first got into this business which was turnofthecentury, honestly, we gear up for in september and october and i was pretty much it. But that has now turned around and is almost yearround especially in Southern California so youre right about that. Even though the wind has really tailed off, there is no much fog as well, theres a teeny bit on the san mateo coast, it shows more down santa cruz into monterey bay, theres a little bit more than this and theres also some of the west edge of the city. So just patchy morning fog, nice on the coast, afternoon breeze, there will be a breeze around the bay inland, hazy and sunny. We are picking up more of an inversion today. Air quality is going down a little bit. More people on the roads versus a month ago when you could see forever the day. 50s and 60s on the temperatures here. We had some upper 40s, low 50s, now we are seeing more 50s and 60s. San carlos, foster city, pacific avenue and montero 54, belmont is that 65. The low will backtrack a little bit and by that a retrograde back to the Pacific Northwest and settling over the west coast or wednesday, thursday friday, that would give us a cool down but he looks nice on the coast. It will be warm and land unless you are really far inland. Not really any great extreme here. It will cool down into friday. It looks warmer on the weekend. Thank you. Camille, the College Experience will be very different for incoming freshmen this year. Details on Stanford Universitys plan to bring it students back this fall. Also concerns about illegal fireworks being set off. Where they are saying the fireworks are likely coming from. They could soon been natural gas and new buildings. It aims to cut the citys Greenhouse Gas emissions. And helping People Living in San Franciscos chinatown who are being dramatically affected by covid19. This morning on the nine, we talk live with one of the leaders of a bay area nonprofit that is feeding those who are hungry and also helping to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Freedom. Its at the core of who we are. The freedom to live without fear. To jog where we please. To wear a hoodie. The freedom to breathe. Before we celebrate the freedom most americans have, we must fight for the freedom all americans deserve. Because all lives cant matter, until black lives matter. Local Fire Departments are on guard as we head into the fourth of july weekend. While fireworks are illegal in most parts of the bay area, there are cities that allow the sale of socalled safe and sane fireworks. The citians include dublin gilroy petaluma and cloverdale. Still every year, illegal fireworks lead to injuries and property damage. Expose those fireworks are likely coming from asia and are shipped to other states before being smuggled into california. Conditions are dry, we are seeing unseasonably frequent wind events over the last four weeks. There are more fireworks occurring across certain areas of the state and that is extremely alarming to us. According to the american pyrotechnics association, fireworks related injuries declined by more than half because of safer products and enhance supervision. Stanford university will stagger student attendances in the fall to limit oncampus population and also allow for social distancing. Freshmen, sophomores, and transfer students will be allowed on campus for the fall and the summer sessions. Juniors and seniors will be allowed on campus for the winter and spring quarters. Students who are not on campus for a particular quarter can take classes online. New Research Suggesting about 40 of americans now work from home fulltime. Most of these athome workers have not been to their office or other places of business in the past couple of months. This is the latest evidence of the pandemic that it has changed the American Workplace forever. This is the most practical way given the technological advances that have taken place, and the fact that people are now able to work from homes. The economy is moving. It is more knowledgebased economy and it is the Knowledge Based workers who have jobs where they are essentially working on computers. People will also be pretty much staying away from restaurants and bars and that is having a huge economic toll, i had done many of those businesses, especially in the downtown areas of major cities. Top wall street economists are studying the connection between wearing a mask and the economy. Pam cook is back now with todays dollars and cents. His team has been studying the effects of Wearing Masks and a nationwide mandate would cut the daily growth rate by 1 . He says that would prevent a second lockdown which would in turn save another 5 hit to the economy. When the opening bell rang this morning, shares in lulu lemons dock gained nearly 5 after a big move into the home gym. Analysts estimate lulu lemons purchase of Home Fitness Company mirror will generate 100 million in revenue this year. Taking alive look at the big board, pretty flat when we take a look at the broader index of the dow jones, im just a tiny little bit, 25,600 or so. The nasdaq up three quarters of her present there. 9946. The s p 500 up almost a half a percent to 367, wrapping up june, wrapping up a pretty good quarter for the most part today. We will see what happens in the closing bell rings. Several states and counties across the u. S. And here in california will be slightly easing some of the financial impacts of the coronavirus with minimum wage hikes tomorrow. The plant hikes in illinois, nevada, oregon, and 21 cities are part of a large increase being phased in over several years in San Francisco, the minimum wage will go from 15. 59 an hour to 16. 07 an hour as part of an annual cost of living increase. Ford motors is helping car buyers have more confidence in their purchase. They are allowing customers who buy new or used cars to ford credit to return that vehicle within a year if they cant make payments because of the job loss. The Ford Promise Program runs to the end of september. The initiative applies to 2019, 2020, and 2021 vehicles. Reportedly tried to buy one of its competitors again in the food delivery business. The New York Times reports huber is offering to buy post mates for 2. 6 billion dollars. That deal would help bolster hubers own delivery business. As food delivery is soaring and the rideshare industry is suffering amid the coronavirus pandemic. But you might remember uber tried to buy grub hub about two weeks ago but antitrust regulator sought to that deal. So well see what happens there. Lets go back to the news. Lets get you out the door. More that normal traffic pattern is returning sal. Yeah. We have seen on highway 4, we have seen on the bay bridge, we have seen in a lot of spot and speaking of the papers, what to show you the traffic here. It is going to be, backed up a little bit. Although Getting Better as the morning wears on. We have seen a little bit of it prevent here. 880 has not been so but we have been crowd. It has been crowded but not stop and go. San mateo is one of the best bridges to get across. Highway 4 is becoming normal here. We didnt see this last month but we now we see it coming over the past. This is san jose 101 into 80 and they have been doing okay especially to 80 into the west valley. Lets bring stephen with todays weather. Highway 29 is seeing an increase in traffic compared to a month ago. No doubt about it. Yes sir. We do have clear skies out there. A little bit of patchy fog, san mateo coast, a little haze, more so down towards monterey and santa cruz but really theres not much out there. There will be a lot more tomorrow. Theres plenty out there and it will start to get ramped up your tomorrow. Some of the patchy fog again, doesnt show on the san mateo ghost. Theres a little bit. Sunny for all, eventually will burn off. My keep an eye on it for tonight. Nice on the coast, warm inlets, 50s and 60s already, brentwood already 170, but temperatures really, nevada made it to 48 this morning. Down towards santa cruz, santa cruz mountains, gilroy 50, morgan hill, san jose, 62, cupertino 63. Those water temperatures are still pretty cold. 51, 50, point arena, a little warmer down towards monterey but they are cold enough to support fog and once it gets a little help in that system which backtrack over the next couple of days, i will start to make a move starting tomorrow into thursday and friday. 60 to upper 80s or low 90s here. These are pretty close to where she they should be this time of year. Tomorrow will be a cooling trend. It does look warmer inland. Over the weekend. Coming up in the next hour, now we know the price tag of the coronavirus treatment drug, remdesivir. How much will Gilead Sciences charge for a five day treatment and when will it be available. And the fourth of july tradition will look a lot different this year. The changes ahead for nathans hot dog eating contest and what the bay areas great Joey Chestnut says he wants to do. But first, worries from coast tocoast coming together. Will show you how theyre trying to use beer to bring awareness to the black lives matter movement. Just a reminder, now you can have the Morning Headlines delivered right to you by sending up for the new ktvu newsletter. Just go to ktvu. Com email and sign up for the daily service. When we closed our doors in march, wynn committed instantly to keeping all 15,000 team members onboard. We then focused our fivestar level of service to all who needed it. We made improvements to peoples lives. We strove to be better and we made people happy. This closure may have temporarily taken us out of wynn and encore, but it couldnt take the wynn and encore out of us. And now, we are proud to welcome you back. 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 welcome back to mornings on 2. Life has been good by joe walsh. I like your optimism there. Thank you maria for the request. If theres a special song you want to hear, let us know. I will play request every morning during the pandemic it seems we are doing requests. Just use the hashtag ktvu on facebook, twitter, or instagram. Reddit has removed an online group devoted to President Trump. It was called the donald. It was home to more than 790,000 users. The posted means, viral videos and supportive messages about the president. The Company Reddit says the group consistently had broken its rules by allowing people to target and harass others with hate speech. The decision by reddit as part of a potent purge of some 2000 sub reddits periods more and more companies are joining the facebook boycott in pulling ads amid criticism over facebooks handling of hate speech. Ford, dennys and clorox are among the latest major corporations to join us boycott. They all say they will temporarily halt at spending on the social media platform. The boycott is part of the stop heat for Profit Campaign launched by the naacp and other civil rights groups. Facebook lost 60 billion in market value in two days as the advertising boycott continued. Their market value dropped last morning after it dropped after the second day. He took off the loss with a 1. 2 gain though yesterday afternoon. One of these San Francisco giants top prospect tested positive for the coronavirus. 22yearold Hunter Bishop was the giants first round draft pick last year. He is an outfielder. He started at their high school in san mateo before going to arizona state. The giant say he has mild symptoms. He Wont Take Part in teamwork out that oracle part that begin this friday. A growing list of Major League Players are opting out of playing during this coming short and season. Two members of the world series champion Washington Nationals wont play. Ryan zimmerman and pitcher joe ross. Zimmerman has a young child, he also has elderly filming members. He doesnt feel like putting them at risk. Another player, mike lee is now with the arizona diamondbacks. An africanamerican brewer who grommet in sacramento once other beer makers to join him in brewing a special beer with the label, black is beautiful. His name is marcus baskerville. He came up with this and for reason 17 countries are taking part including 900 breweries here in the u. S. 19 bay area craft beer makers have signed up as well such as speakeasy in San Francisco and another Brewing Company in martinez. This is one of the cool things about the beer industry. We try support each other. It has been crazy as far as how the reception is been. It is been very humbling for sure. The baskerville hopes each beer with the black is beautiful label will lead to conversations about racial and social justice issues. He is also asking breweries to donate proceeds to local nonprofits that help communities of color. Close con the east bay as firefighters battled to save homes from a brush fire. The latest on containment and why the upcoming fourth of july holiday could possibly play a role. California counties hitting the brakes on those reopening plans. The two bay area counties now joining the list and the frustration from so many Business Owners. Also, triage tents now lined up outside the walls of san quentin state prison. More than 1000 inmates and staff have been tested positive for covid19 and that number just keeps growing. Good morning Everyone Welcome back to mornings on 2. What we have your . It is tuesday, june 30th. Just like that, the end of the month. Quick month, long month, but i bet a lot of people are debating about this upcoming fourth of july weekend. We stay on, do we go, make plans, should we cancel them, should we not, especially with all these counties turning to pull back on the reopening plans. I know, it seemed almost 3 months ago we are getting word about the canceling of fireworks. Every city just fell in line saying theres no big public other, theres no big fireworks display. These days, a port visit with my parents is like the fourth of july. It is interesting how the smaller social gatherings are just like gold to us these days. That is true and i canceled plans. I was about to go to arizona and that is not happening. Not the best situation down there. A lot of people will be staying close to home and it looks like pretty good weather here. Warmer inland as we head toward the Holiday Weekend but cost of a looks pretty nice. Is a little fog but i think tomorrow is a better opportunity for the fog to make an appearance. Theres a little bit of a breeze, theres a little puff of wind already. Temperatures arent going very far. An onshore breeze at napa airport. Travis 69, thats a big difference from yesterday when they had a north wind and really warm temperatures. Not much going on, pretty quiet here. And that is rare for me. Usually we have something going on. Temperatures were they should be. Over to sell now so they mentioned highway for last time. We can mentioned highway for for sure because we have some slow traffic there. People always want to know about that. It has improved quite a bit. Here we are at 8 00 and there is a little bit of slow traffic here, but the traffic is moving along okay if you are driving on the area. There been no major issues. Interstate 880 as you drive through, traffic is moving well in both directions. Lets go back to the headlines. New this morning, firefighters, about nine acres, it was 75 contained. Fire Officials Say this may have been caused by fireworks. They started just before 11 00 last night near the clayton palms mobile Home Community located just off marsh creek road. It is the same neighborhood that saw the marsh fire get dangerously close just last summer. So far this money no reports of any injuries. Firefighters in pittsburgh quickly knocked down a fairly they believe was also started by fireworks. It was picked up at 5 30 this morning that year kirker pass road. Firefighters will remain on scene watching for any flareups. Today, california in the bay area are expected to reach to grin covid19 milestones. Our state is expected to hit a quarter of 1 million confirmed cases. They also expect to top 6000 and deaths. Another statistic to watch as the percentage of positive tests. The number is now 5. 5 , up from 4. 4 two weeks ago. The bay areas is expected to reach 25,000 confirmed cases today. The governor is aiming the rise on a number of factors and including people becoming complacent and affects in jails and prisons. He warned that therell be increased enforcement and that relief funding will only go to areas that follow state health guidelines. We dont like the trend line. And that is why, again, this mandatory math requirement is in effect and that is like, unfortunately we are using this dimmer switch to start to pull back. Yesterday ordered a recommended he says he will address concerns about social and family gatherings in the next few days. He is speaking again today at noon and will have that for you. A kind of Virus Outbreak continues to sweep right to swim quentin state prison in marin county. More than 1000 inmates have tested positive for covid19 and now all of a sudden they have actually set up triage tents out in the prison yard. Elissa harrington joins us live with more on what is being done to stop the spread of covid19 at the prison. Good morning. Some of the sickest inmates are being transferred to local hospitals to get treatment. They also reached out to the department of corrections and they are pulling hundreds of inmates early to try and thin out the population. They sent me a statement and i want to read part of it. It says, since the global coronavirus pandemic hits our community, the department has worked tirelessly to implement measures to protect staff, the incarcerated population, and the community at large. In person visits have also been suspended and tents have been set up in the prison yard at san quentin to help socially distance inmates. I checked on the numbers this morning. So far, 1080 prisoners in san quentin tested positive for covid19 as well as 100 to employees. There are more than 4000 cases across the states prison system. The outbreak at san quentin started after 100 inmates are transferred there at the cannes California Institute for men. That was exactly one month ago. Since then, number of cases at san quentin has a bloated and just a matter of weeks. And there 3500 inmates have been paroled early but some inmates simply arent ready to come out. They dont have a place to stay. They dont have a place to go. They dont have plans in place. Over the weekend, activists and loved ones of inmates held a rally outside the gates of the imprinted demented to have them released. They are very concerned because of the close quarters inside the prison and the inability to social distance. We also learned that the presence first dent linked to covid. He was found unresponsive in his cell last week and a corner just found that he was positive for the coronavirus. Im elissa harrington, ktvu, fox 2 news. Happening right now, dr. Anthony felty and other experts are back on capitol hill in washington, d. C. Theyre updating members of congress on the governments response to the recent surge in coronavirus cases across the country. That hearing began just a short time ago. Dr. Fauci says theres still no guarantee the u. S. Would develop a vaccine anytime soon but he says he does remain optimistic. We are monitoring this hearing and we will get a live update from sarah at 8 30. There are delays and plans to open businesses in alameda and contra costa counties. Those two counties during marin and San Francisco county and delaying a move to the next stage of reopening. Contra costa counties are also shutting down parts at the request of the governor and nail salons, restaurant, dining rooms engines will stay closed for the time being. Business owners say they know that safety is the most important thing here. Many though is meant they are frustrated. So ready to open, so ready to see my members again and just kind of go back to a sense of normalcy, and it doesnt seem like that is going to be happening soon. Health officials in contra costa Custer County say the number of people testing positive jumped from 4 to 6 and they saw the biggest increase among younger people. Also rising, the number of patients being hospitalized. The same thing is happening in Alameda County. In the next few days, the Public Health officer will release a new longterm plan for reopenings. Dr. Sarah cody says one area serious concern is the Construction Industry which accounts for 90 of the countys covid19 outbreaks since late may. Also warned the board of supervisors theres a possibility of pulling back on some higher risk act committees and continuing to keep other businesses closed. Governor gavin newsom has appointed the Top Health Official to serve in the one of the states top positions. Dr. Erica penn will serve as a state epidemiologist. She will act as a strategic leader and how the counties respond to the covid19 pandemic. And you can go to the mobile app anytime to find more coverage on the different bay area counties slowing their reopening process due to a surge in coronavirus cases. The app is a Free Download and is extremely useful, certainly anytime but mike, in these times, we need information at our fingertips. They go. I also say that the weather app is a pretty good one to have as well. Lets go back to steve right now with that. Were talking about the possibility of a cooldown later this week. Starting tomorrow. That will take us into friday. Inland temperatures can make a jump over the weekend but today looks normal. Theres really not much fog, just a patch or two. Even that looks to be lifting away from santa cruz so it is just something that we have seen wild swings since april, may, parts of june. It just looks like a normal gin, and of june day. Theres a little breeze kicking up a not a big deal yet. 67, 55 for the city, the average is 6754. The riker is 93. Yesterday, we had a north wind. Today they have more of a west southwest. That is an onshore breeze. Not strong but it is still there. Temperatures, i dont think they go really abrupt yesterdays levels. Everyone looks close to what we had yesterday. That low is going to retrograde, kind of preload, backed up and then settling on the west coast. It would give us a cooldown plus increase the fog. 60s, 70s, 80s today. These are all within a couple of degrees of where they should be on the high side. Our average for this time of year. Clean truck fixes into wednesday. It does look warmer away from the coast as we head to the end of the weekend. Close to two years ago, bay area voters approved a toll hike for bridges. Well now theres a new question. Was the measure legal . Coming up, how a state court has ruled on the debate. And surviving victims of the golden state filler speaking out that he pleads guilty to dozens of charges. More on their reaction to the plea deal. You have the power of two newscast. The tenant clock at 11 00 news. And you have the power to know when you download the ktvu fox 2 news app. This home is equipped with gig Speed Internet from xfinity. Theres this gametime internetting room. So fun. And then theres this workfromhome internetting room. Finally, the openconcept internetting room. This is not an open house. But your front door was open, so technically it is. Get gig speeds and the most wifi coverage from xfinity. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Enhance your online experience with even faster speed. Choose from a range of fast, reliable options, up to a gig. Click or call to learn more. New this morning, the eu will open up its borders tomorrow to 14 countries, but the United States is not one of those countries. That is because the eu is trying to manage the spread of the coronavirus and the United States has more cases than any other nation. The ministates are seeing a spike in cases. More than 50 millions americans are estimated to travel to europe each year. Countries that will be allowed are canada, japan, south korea and australia. The Golden State Killer is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole sentence. How do you plead . Guilty. Yesterday he pleaded guilty to dozens of murders and rapes and terrorized communities across california. Several survivors and relatives of victims were among those attending yesterdays Court Hearing in sacramento. He has taken two thirds of my life from me. When he pled guilty that felt good. It did. I think theres a lot of closer and he is having to live with the fact that we are hearing every single thing that he said and what he did to us and he is owning it. Yesterdays hearing was held at a ballroom at Sacramento State university. Court Officials Say the unusual venue was needed to provide proper social distancing for the many victims and members of news media. A Police Officer has been arrested. They say the unidentified officer is also accused of making annoying and harassing phone calls. The department is working with Alameda County das office in the investigation by Police Internal affairs and the Police Review board. Nancy skinner has introduced two new bills on policing. One would make it easier for the public to obtain records of an officers use of force, wrongful arrest or biased behavior. The other bill would change the 911 system to allow social Services Professionals to answer calls where an armed officer is not needed. San Francisco City attorney and comptroller are making rep recommendations on how the department of public works can improve transparency following a corruption scandal. The report comes as the former director mohammed and five others had been charged in federal court in connection with fraud charges and recommends improving citywide laws, guidance, requirements and monitoring processes to reduce the risk of fraud and abuse in the contracting process. Mayor prete says she will take immediate action to implement the recommendations. More and more people are hitting the road and it is a good thing sal is here to monitor the changes. Yeah. We do have more people on the road. That is for sure. We can see the traffic is going to be busy, although it is Getting Better at the bay bridge. I can tell you that traffic care of the toll plaza does a pretty good, it is Getting Better in the last half hour. So that is the good news. If you are driving on the east bay freeway system, i like what i see here. Traffic is looking very good as you travel on 880 and 580. A little slow on highway 4. And it is beginning to wind down. What about todays weather . Thank you. Not much going on here. We have had wild swings as you know, doesnt look like a little pattern change, today, except for a little bit of patchy fog, we are mainly clear and the little haze settles in. We have a north wind yesterday, it is more of a west southwest wind today. Using 60s, low 70s for some, that without the northwind, some areas will probably not get into the lower 90s like they did yesterday. It will get close of your inland. That low up there in your mountain region, it is actually another one off of vancouver. They will dump all around each other and then they will sell in the west coast with an area of low pressure. That would be wednesday to friday and therell be a bigger fog bank cooler and brassieres we going to the end of the week. So today will be that between day and nice ghost warm inland to hot for some, upper 80s for most to very low 90s. The cooling trend will start tomorrow. Inland temperatures will bump up over the weekend. The time is 8 19, there are in fact thousands of bay area residents working from home at this moment due to the covid19 pandemic. Coming up, will take a good look at the Economic Impact of this is having us more and more companies are making adjustments. Road signs in the east bay caught many drivers off guard. We would tell you what it says and how it happened. When we closed our doors in march, wynn committed instantly to keeping all 15,000 team members onboard. We then focused our fivestar level of service to all who needed it. We made improvements to peoples lives. We strove to be better and we made people happy. This closure may have temporarily taken us out of wynn and encore, but it couldnt take the wynn and encore out of us. And now, we are proud to welcome you back. Good morning. I miss still poke last time. Al green is very much alive. Marissa thought it was funny. He said since he made the mistake can you play that song for me . Its my favorite. Marissa your wish is my command. Thank you and thanks for the funny tweet. Lets Stay Together by al green and that is it for traffic jams for today but i keep a list if you have a song you want to hear, go ahead and send it to me anyway and i will put it on the list and youll probably hear it in the next few days. It is facebook, twitter, and instagram and the hashtag is ktvu. My company take, a measure designed to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions in San Francisco will be introduced. Supervisor Rafael Mendel meant will lead a virtual News Conference to unveil this legislation. It would ban natural gas appliances. All new houses and commercial buildings, this measure would affect Construction Projects that apply for permits beginning next year. Restaurant projects would have an extra year to comply. The state Appeals Court ruled that a toll increase on seven state owned bridges that voters approved in 2018 is indeed legal. 55 of voters approved regional measures three. The Taxpayers Association challenged this in court saying the toll is a tax so it should require a two thirds vote under state law. But the First District court of appeals ruled that bridge tolls are a fee for entrance to or use of state property and is not a tax. Tomorrow, the toll of the Golden Gate Bridge will go up along with the golden gate ferry rates. The money will go to maintaining the bridge as well as the fairies. Also help the district recoup revenue loss during this pandemic. Traffic on the bridge is still down about 40 from pre pandemic levels. Most drivers will be paying an extra . 35 so that means for fasttrack users, the news toll is 7. 70. Some drivers in Contra Costa County were surprised by a roadside messageboard over the weekend. The sign in brentwood side do not slow for protesters. There was a message about liberals and one the red trump 2020. The Contra Costa County public works spokesman said it doesnt appear pried open the science operating system to change the message. It has since been fixed and the incident was reported to the sheriffs office. Thousands of u. S. Citizens are being sworn in a driveup ceremonies in which they take the oath of citizenship, but a budget crisis could put the services of risk. The ceremonies recently resumed with social dissecting protocols, but the u. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau says it might be forced to place nearly 3 4 of its workforce on furlough next month. That would lead to severe cutbacks in operations, possibly leaving tens of thousands of people waiting to become citizens. The Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge. Environmental groups challenged the federal law that allows the Homeland Security department to waive environmental reviews and move forward with quick construction of the border wall. Opponents say fragile desert ecosystems are being destroyed. Another report dismissed the kates. The ruling stands. The convention is now requiring people to wear face masks in public. The convention was moved to jacksonville, florida earlier this month. It was said to have been in charlotte, north carolina. But President Trump and the convention recorded located when he had the convention relocated when north carolinas governor said social distancing measures we need to be observed inside the arena. Jacksonville city leaders have not decided if masks will be required at the convention in late august. Hundreds of florida doctors have signed a letter to have the convention postponed or significantly reduced in size. Coming up, new developments about reports that russia paid a bounty to kill u. S. Troops in afghanistan. With the trump administrator reportedly new and what is happening today. Also we have an update on the fallout from racist posts in a Facebook Group allegedly involving members of the San Jose Police department. This home is equipped with gig Speed Internet from xfinity. Theres this gametime internetting room. So fun. And then theres this workfromhome internetting room. Finally, the openconcept internetting room. This is not an open house. But your front door was open, so technically it is. Get gig speeds and the most wifi coverage from xfinity. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Enhance your online experience with even faster speed. Choose from a range of fast, reliable options, up to a gig. Click or call to learn more. Dr. Anthony fauci is again testifying on capitol hill this morning. The questions lawmakers are asking about the trap administrations efforts to contain the coronavirus. Also as we approach the Holiday Weekend, gavin newsom is giving his thoughts on the increase in covid19 cases. What he says may be behind a surge in new cases in california. 8 29 on a beautiful tuesday morning. I dont know if youre kids are suckers for stickers. Pd day for the pleasanton dirt jumps. It says come jump with us. I know you guys love bikes. If you can make it out to pleasanton one day, theres a great free bmx dirt track right on stanley boulevard. We have ridden the heck out of it for the past three months. It is a good way to get outside because i know everyone is looking for those opportunities. You bet. Good knowledge there about the park. I havent been there so well take the children out there. They love those stickers on their bikes as well as their scooters. Steve, here we are at the end of june and im asking you about a springtraining forecast because the giants are reporting for spring training 2. 0 here this week. It looks pretty quiet to be honest with you. Theres just not a lot going on today. But by tomorrow we will start to see a little cool down. That would take us in the friday but today theres very little fog out there and temperatures will still be near seasonal averages. That is the forecast. Santa rosa 59, livermore and san jose are both 65 degrees. A little hes off in the distance. It will be sunny for all, a little bit of an inversion, temperatures will warm up a little bit but they will average, will be mild and warm, wednesday and friday those lows will kind of fumble around each other and manage some lower pressures on the west coast. Therell be a cool and breezy forecast wednesday and friday. 80 sunshine, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Over to sal. We have a couple of busy spots. Is there when you would like to focus on . We have improvements now at the bay bridge. You can see traffic is improving nicely which people wait for and want to give the all clear and i do have the all clear for you at the bay bridge so that is pretty good and the rest of the commutes have also cleared out. This is the hour when you take advantage if you have been waiting around as traffic is improving. Lets go back to the headlines. Thank you. Happy nap now, dr. Anthony fauci along with other Top Health Officials are once again testifying on capitol hill in washington, d. C. About this date of the coronavirus pandemic here in the United States. Many states out there having a difficult time containing covid 19. We are monitoring this hearing. And money. Well money my. Dr. Anthony fauci says he is quite concerned about what he is seeing in several states in terms of coronavirus cases. Even mentioning california. We have a life like at the hearing right now and we can pull that up and break down exactly what has happened in the last hour and a half. Dr. Fauci is joined by the heads of the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the fda and health and Human Services. All four witnesses went to the opening remarks and are now answering questions. This hearing is to get updates on how schools can reopen and people can get back to work safely. Is he the first step is controlling the virus. All four men reinforced several times the biggest thing we can do is take personal responsibility. Wear a mask, keep her distance and wash your hands. To reopen more schools and businesses, thought she said the cdc guidelines should be applied and taken seriously. The concern there for parents is that they are still worrying about sending their kids back to in person classes within the next couple of months. Dr. Steven on the commissioner, therell be more than one potential treatment option by the fall. And ralph algie says theres no guarantee that therell be a safe and effective vaccine, theyll have hope. We are cautiously optimistic. Looking at our data and the early preliminary data that we will at least know the extent of efficacy sometime in the winter and early part of next year. Again, working with the companies and the investments made by this congress, hopefully there will be doses available by the beginning of next year. We are Live Streaming this hearing right now on ktvus facebook page. You can watch the whole thing there and we will continue to bring updates on this hearing throughout the morning. Thank you. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin along with Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell will also be on capitol hill today. Theyre going to testify at the federal response to the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. Mnuchins expected feast of questions on the governance mistakes. He will likely defend the feds response to the economic crisis. Governor gavin newsom will give us an update today on the covid19 crisis in our state and californias efforts on housing homeless residents in hotel rooms. We are going to carry this briefing for you live in the noon newscast today. Searching cases are also prompting leaders to scale back reopening plans. Governor newsom said several factors led to the rise including people becoming more and more complacent as well as outbreaks in jails and prisons. Over the weekend, gavin newsom ordered closure of bars and seven counties and recommended the closure and eight other counties including contra costa and santa clara due to the risks. You are in a bar, you are moving around, your drinking, your mask is off, you are close to other people. Governor newsom also warns there will be increased enforcement and that relief of funding may only go to areas who follow guidelines. He is now focused on this fourth of july weekend and in the coming days will address concerns about social and family gatherings. New this morning, china has approved a lot of cracked on with the beijing government considers subversive activities in hong kong. They say this is the chinese governments biggest up so far to wiping out Legal Protections for hong kong territory against chinas authoritarian communist party system. Democratic lawmakers are headed to the white house today to get a briefing on reports that russia offered to pay a bounty to taliban fighters if they killed u. S. Troopers in afghanistan. White house Officials Say there was not a consensus about the validity of the report so as not since president. Lawmakers from both parties are demanding to be told more. Senator Chuck Schumer wants to know who knew what and when they knew it. President trump, you lose either way. If you werent briefed on this important report, how can you run administration wear something this important is not brought to your level . And if you were told about the report and did nothing, thats even worse. A spokesman for the kremlin has denied the reports. Now to the south bay where San Jose City leaders and Community Activists are demanding reforms within the Police Department. For current Police Officers in san jose have been suspended. They are accused of belonging to a private Facebook Group that posted racist messages. The website, medium, posted examples of some of the offensive post that red black lives really dont matter. Some of the comments that ive seen are absolutely important. I was shocked by some of them. We have told you that these cops exist in your department and you keep saying they dont do we keep telling you they do. The Police Department cannot discipline retired officers who posted on the site but chief garcia is not ruling out firing the current officers. The Police Association is also condemning the post while sam liccardo says he hopes these revelations will be to positive change within police culture. Warm inland, call on the coast, we go to Steve Paulson. For those coastal communities, the sunset district, they going to get sunshine . Oh yeah. But it will be about 64. Its not going to be, it will be nice, theres not a lot of fog, just patchy fog. Tomorrow looks a little cooler. 60 to 72. This little bit more fog down there. Most of the coastal get in on the senate they dont have it already. So just patchy fog, sunny, nice, upper 60s, low 70s, the bay sunshine already kicking in for a little bit and he the son. More people out on the roads now so the hazes settled in. Visibility is what it was a month ago. A little South Southwest breeze, there is a much of a breeze. Ive looked everywhere. Theres just not much of one yet. 50s, 60s, 70s, they will be low 90s. Everyone else will probably be in the 80s. It will be 67 70. There is another one near vancouver. Theyre going like a dumbbell around each other. Theyll be starting tomorrow which will give us a bigger fog back and cooler temperature on wednesday, thursday, and friday. Today is near average for just about everyone from San Francisco to oakland to livermore, doesnt matter, they are close to where they should be. After friday it does look like in the temperatures begin to heat up. Thank you for that. Healthy people in San Franciscos chinatown who are being affected by covid19. Still to come on the nine, we are catching up with one of the leaders of the bay area nonprofit that is feeding the hungry while also preventing the spread of the virus. Plus, concerns about powerful, illegal fireworks being set up right here in the bay area where Officials Say they may be coming from. Some researchers say that coronavirus has mutated, making it even more contagious. Experts at Northwestern University examined the genetic structure of the virus inside the mutation makes it easier for the virus to penetrate cells at the mutated virus is now the dominant form worldwide. A Bay Area Company Gilead Sciences has announced the price tag for the drug remdesivir. It will cost 2340 for insurance plans run by the government or 3120 for private insurance plans. Next month, gilead will start charging for the drug after donating drug doses in the past. Remdesivir can help patients recover faster and cut down a hospital stay by several days. Firefighters in Southern California near the mexico border are making sure that a devastating wildfire there doesnt flare up again. Flames tore through the rural town of east of the salton sea. The fire started sunday night and has killed one person and destroyed at least 40 homes. Photos from the Fire Department show the intense flames that were whipped by strong winds. At least 150 people are out of their homes and an outage caused by the fire knocked out power to some 600 homes overnight. Local Fire Departments are on guard as we head toward the fourth of july weekend. While fireworks are illegal in most parts of the bay area, there are 12 cities that allow the sale of socalled safe and sane fireworks. That includes san bruno, dublin, rye, petaluma and clomid dale. Experts say those illegal fireworks are likely coming from asia and are shipped to other states before being smuggled into california. Conditions are dry, we are seeing unseasonably frequent wind events over the last four weeks. There more fireworks occurring across certain areas of the state, that is extremely alarming to us. According to the american pyrotechnics association, between 2022, fireworks elite injuries declined. Company today, california superintendent of public instruction will hold a hearing on the impact of Police Officers actually patrolling campuses across the state. Tony thurman will be joined by several state lawmakers from the area to check out discuss possible changes involving campus Police Officers. Todays hearing comes after the School Boards in oakland and severance voted to cut ties with Campus Police due to allegations of racism and bias against students. The American Academy of pt pediatrics as a recommendation for students as they get ready to go back into the classroom. They say all policy considerations should start with the goal of having students physically present in school whenever it is safe. The doctors say schools are fundamental to Child Development and wellbeing as a theres evidence that transmission of the coronavirus by children is uncommon. Stanford university well staggers attendances fall to limit the oncampus publish and allow for social distancing. Freshmen, sophomores and transfer students will be allowed on campus for the fall session juniors and seniors will be allowed on campus for the winter and spring quarter. Students were not in campus for particular quarter can take classes online. State lawmakers are hoping that a group will prevent School Closures in oakland and they are helping them as well. Several women of color created the group called oakland not for sale, demanding a moratorium on School Closures until december of 2022. Ron bonta is now helping the group and that he wants the Oakland School district to hold off on School Closures in communities with large numbers of africanamerican and latino students. Remove the state of california to remove the imposition on the closure of schools. For decades now, the state has been pushing an austerity agenda that has hurt black and brown students first and worst. Yesterdays event included a virtual demonstration of how students with social distance in the classroom. New Research Suggests that about 40 of americans are now working from home fulltime. And most of these antiworkers have not been to their office or workplace in the past few months. This study is the latest evans that the coronavirus pandemic has likely changed the American Workplace forever. This is the most practical way given the technological advances that have taken place and the fact that people are now able to work from home. The economy is moving, it is more knowledge to base economy. And it is the Knowledge Based workers who have jobs where they are essentially working on computers. Of course people are also largely staying away from restaurants and bars but it is taking a huge economic toll on many of those businesses, especially in downtown areas of big cities. The largest Movie Theater chain is delaying the reopening of its 450 theaters for two more weeks. Mc decided to post back the date until the end of july as most of the summer blockbusters have not been released. They just reversed course and decided to require moviegoers to wear masks once those theaters do reopen. The curtain is going to stay down the rest of the show year on broadway. They are suspended through at least january 3rd of next year. The theaters will now refund or exchange tickets. They indicate that they do not expect it to reopen before march or possibly even april. The company that made workout gear every day where is taking advantage of another trend. Lose them and is expected to expand to the gym. Pam cook for this mornings dollars and cents. Good morning. Lulu lemon expanding into the home gym. It is purchasing mere which is as dart up in the home gym business. They will generate about 100 billion for lulu lemon this year. When opening bell ring this morning, thats when the stocks had gained ground. To about 300 a share at this point, taking alive look at the new york stock exchange, wrapping up a pretty good corridor across the board for the dow. The nasdaq and the s p 500. All up a little bit. Getting into the 10,000 mark. 99, 92 of 118 points right now. Cirque du soleil has announced it is filing for bankruptcy protection. The Entertainment Group plans to present its plan in court today. They stopped production on all of its shows in march due to the pandemic and 95 of its workforce was laid off. Cirque du soleil says it plans to rehire a majority of its employees once operations are allowed to resume. Today is the last day to apply for that loan from the paycheck protection program. It handed out 520 billion dollars in loans to Small Businesses to help preserve workers jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, but 130 billion are Still Available after a second wave of funding was provided for that program. The Small Business it illustration recently launched an online tool called the lender thats program to help Business Owners connect with participating lenders. Ford is helping car buyers having little more confidence. Ford is allowing customers to buy new or used cars to ford credit to return that vehicle within the year if they cant make the payments. The fourth Promise Program runs through the end of september. The initiative applies to 2019, 2020, and 2021 vehicles. Thats a look at your dollars and cents. Lets go back to mike and garcia. Thank you. As we go to traffic, i thought of you when i filled up the gas tank yesterday. Or maybe only the second time since ive been sent to work from home three months ago, i paid 2. 57. Its an interesting sign, isnt it . It is. That is pretty low. That is pretty good. Good morning to you. Good morning to mike and right now we have traffic that is doing pretty well here. On the open freeway system and things have settled down quite a bit. This is look at interstate 880 and this hour, the traffic gets lighter between 8 00 and 9 00. Is a good time to be out there if you have to go. That of been no problems on the bridges. 8 51, lets bring stephen. He is todays forecast. It is pretty good forecast. A little he starting to settle in. We had visibility was sparkling about a month ago. Kind of trapping things a little bit as you add the fog. It is a sunny forecast for all. A little fog dancing on the forecast. I think it will be greater coverage tomorrow. Temperatures near average on the high side. How inland, lower 70s for some, 60s for others. The water temperatures are still pretty cold. 51, 53, San Francisco still 54, when you get 80s and 90s, all you need is a little bit of help and you would get that. A dumbbell around each other and there will be cool and breezy as we head into wednesday and thursday especially. It looks like a rebound on the temperatures today. Upper 80s to a few near 90 degrees. Hang on, it looks like the warmer temps will return over the Holiday Weekend. Coming up, a surprising firework display popping up in different parts of new york city. Still to come, how long the fourth of july shows expected to last and why some city leaders are calling this irresponsible. First though, buries from coast tocoast are coming together. We will show you how theyre trying to use beer to bring awareness to black lives matter movement. Now i can have the Morning Headlines delivered right to you just by sending up for the new ktvu newsletter. Head over to ktvu. Com email and sign up for this daily service. When we closed our doors in march, wynn committed instantly to keeping all 15,000 team members onboard. We then focused our fivestar level of service to all who needed it. We made improvements to peoples lives. We strove to be better and we made people happy. This closure may have temporarily taken us out of wynn and encore, but it couldnt take the wynn and encore out of us. And now, we are proud to welcome you back. Read it has removed the group called the donald. The post means and viral videos and support messages about the president. The group consistently breaks the rules. They are perching some 2000 summer edits. Most had been inactive or only had a few users. More and more companies are pulling ads for facebook over the its handling of heat speech. Dennys and clorox are joining the boycott. They will halt and spending on the social media giant and part of the stop heat Profit Campaign launched by the naacp and other civil rights groups. Despite zuckerbergs efforts they lost money. The market value dropped as stock prices slid for a second day. It shook off the loss with the 1. 2 in monday afternoon. The league allowed small groups of players to train as part of the phase two of returning to action. Since then theyve conducted more than 1400 covid19 tests and they hope to kick a phase three in the next few weeks. The hope is to turn to gained shortly thereafter. One of the giant top prospects have tested positive for covid19. Hunter bishop with the first round pick last year. The outfielder attended sara high in san mateo before going to arizona state. He suffered mild symptoms and will not take part in Team Workouts starting on friday and majorleague ballplayers are opting out of this season. Two members of the Washington Nationals will not play. Its infielders Ryan Zimmerman and picture joe ross. Zimmerman had elderly relatives and he doesnt think playing is worth the risk. A former giant picture, mike lee, now with the arizona diamondbacks. Joey chestnut predicting a new world record on saturday. The fourth of july eating contest will be much been different. Instead of being held in front of thousands it will take place at a private location with covid19 Safety Measures picture with the draw, since these measures are more favorable for a record which is 74 hot dogs in just 10 minutes. An africanamerican brewer who grew up in sacramento, once per makers to join him and bring special dark beer with the little black is beautiful. Markets in bakersfield came up with the idea and breweries are taking part, including more than 900 breweries in the u. S. 19 craft Brewing Company signed up such as black owned a speakeasy in San Francisco and another in martinez. Expect this is one of the cool things about the beer industry. We try to support each other. Its been crazy as far as reception. It has been a very humbling experience for sure. Here with the black as beautiful label and it will lead to conversations and asking breweries to donate proceeds to local nonprofits helping minority communities. Reopening its borders, except to americans. The reason the European Union is banning travelers from more than one dozen countries including the u. S. , from entering. Helping people being affected by covid19 and we talk with one of the bay area nonprofits feeding those who are hungry, while working to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Keeping american spirit alive with unique health guidelines. We will let you know about the celebration that will watch the fireworks foster social distancing. Welcome to mornings on 2 on nine. Mostly going to be a su