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Multimedia multilanguage garage of Public Service announcement impactful in a non pharmaceutical way. Newsom also said in the last two weeks the gravity of the pandemic, hospitalizations, icu admissions and deaths are up substantially. To curb this the governor is asking the 19 counties he targeted yesterday to cancel any remaining firework shows and masking and distancing rules are enforced. Counties that do not face losing some of the over 2 billion in state aid money they can ill afford to lose. Goes far and wide and beyond the issue. Of enforcement for businesses. Its a warning and a fine. We enforce through encouragement and education but we will have to do a little more to further the cause of many getting the spread. The governor be effective or infect somebody else. Do not think for a second were out of the woods. The doctor reminds me we are in the second or third wave of the game. This graphic shows a whole lot is it state. That is a graphic psa but again it feels a people need to be reminded this is serious and you could die. I think the problem is where we go to a disaster never thought this would happen, maybe somewhere else. The facts really is it is doing a lot of damage not just california but large parts of the country. People are suffering and all of that stuff there is damage very likely continue in the future brings back many years. It could not agree more. Thank you. State superintendent of public instruction says he is concerned about the Mental Health change when School Reopens in the fall. Children deeply impacted by the pandemic. For schools to reopen the only proper supplies and counseling for many students. Our students are deeply impacted by the end pandemic for schools to reopen they will need all kinds of personal protective equipment. The state provides a partial amount. We need to have her counseling available for our students who experience depression as part of the pandemic. Theyre great for the state budget designed by Governor Newsom does not make cuts to education and schools could see hardships over the next couple of years. Leaders in San Francisco warning people to stay indoors and celebrate july 4 with her family this year. Christien kafton announced Health Leaders announcing a spike in cases tracking in the last week is aligning to say the least. Its an alarming trend to point to the fact we are possibly in the beginning stages of a surge messy people to stay home and socially distant and use the same strategies we did months ago when we had the curve. San francisco leaders telling residents to stay home this Holiday Weekend due to a spike in coronavirus cases. In San Francisco, we had an alarming increase, a significant learning increase. And hospital stations. Over the past few weeks the rates have soared. At this point we could look at the beginning of a true surge if things dont change quickly. The city already canceled this years waterfront fireworks display for the fourth of july asking San Francisco to stay home and celebrate with their family this Independence Day. Its important to remember the virus does not take a holiday but it may enforcement further on all of us if we do not take the collective responsibility as Business Owners and page measures and community members. China italy new york florida arizona all stark reminders of how quickly the virus can spread. They already put opening plans on pause in the coming days and weeks to see if numbers trend up or down for the Holiday Weekend. Health experts say the infection hospitalization rates will determine whether to loosen restrictions or inch back towards what we saw in the first days of quarantine. Once the virus takes off, and a high rate, we take the pause now and as much as possible the stay home for the fourth of july. Encouraging news from city leaders and in the curve once, the follow guidelines we know staying distant, and using masks and washing their hands thoroughly and frequently we can bend the curve again and stop the surge. Tesla workers rallied outside the department of health today, they want the county to protect workers at the tesla plant in fremont. Potable for members fired because they are concerned about returning to their jobs. Workers say are not enough inspectors to follow up on complaints about unsafe working conditions. As we head into the Holiday Weekend we do so with counties tightening restrictions also beach parking lots closed more on this. We appreciate you coming on the show. Not surprised we start to see counties tightening up restrictions this week and you start to see more of that . Whether or not we can take care of this weather they can have it happen in california. I would not be surprised to answer your question, if we do not see more compliance with people in social distancing, staying home, Wearing Masks, if we see a rise in cases we may be going back to where we were in march and see another shutdown where its more aggressive and just slowing down the reopening. That is a concern as we head into this weekend. People want to get out and celebrate. What are things you want to keep in mind . It is fourth of july and a Holiday Weekend but not the same. We need to keep that when we try to celebrate. We consider the essence of fourth of july basically in attendance and we need to use independence we all have to do the right thing and to do the right thing is to stay at home, not congregate in areas and other chronic conditions and not socialize with people not part of our direct household. By doing so, we ensure we do not spend the virus around. And we decrease the possibility of any searches potentially happening to to july 4 and having large crowds and having people congregate when they should not. I know people want to go out and you can around the house but keep it local. Into the backyard. Do things that do not increase spring the virus. I would ask, what we do instead . Governor Just Announced he would close the beach parking lots for the california Southern California beaches so, any alternative options here . People are hiking and we can still do that. Picture we have directors of the household. Very important not to mingle with people because if everybody thinks im only going with one or two people, if we all start thinking that, we credit places outdoors potentially the could have been safe at one point. Is just time to socialize because its a long Holiday Weekend that we need to ensure we are not increasing chances of spreading,. We have to be with direct family members walk around the neighborhood and take a short hike here and there but to stay local and not increase the conditions that could potentially happen. Present the different. Before i let you go i want to ask about wearing a mask. Something i feel like the messages out there. They just arent getting. Is something that needs to be happy. I wish we were getting more natural directive on this but we are not. We have to remember we are the United States of america but we are not acting unified when it comes to masks and we should have a universal mask policy. If 95 of the population wears mask it would help, its not difficult. It is easy. Keep the mascot at all times the moment you leave your house, we can save some he lives. It also protects you. These are internal medicine specialist, we appreciate you coming on. Thank you. Many in the southbay with stones the School Administration is exposed to creditors. The in person meeting for principles coming up at 5 30. The with the jobs report released today can we tell you about millions of jobs added last month despite the pandemic. He was on his mind. He could have pulled the trigger and that would be the end. Dashcam video shows a driver coming facetoface with an armed suspect. And then eventually carjacked the driver and led police on a a highspeed chase before driving ethic live in santa cruz. We talked the driver about friday moments on highway one. We know have chilling dashcam video showing a carjacking suspect with drivers at gun point. The driver ended up, i should say the suspect ended up driving in santa cruz in surviving. Henry lee is here with more on this video. I spoke to one of the drivers who came facetoface with a gunman who saw the suspects gun and reacted instantly. This is dashcam video showing the drive through santa cruz tuesday afternoon. He saw a man standing in the middle of the road arguing with somebody and as he got closer he knew something was off. He looked desperate and crazed. That the attention turned to him and he will the gun. But help me out. I said no. I will shoot you if you get out. He said get out and he hit the side of the car with the side of his gun. He counted his blessings. He was on his mind. He could have pulled the trigger and that would have been the end of a. The government did not stop there. You can see the suspect running and confronting drivers at gun point. When driver goes in reverse to get away. At one point Authorities Say the man fired shots in the air. Before carjacking a woman with a honda civic. Here you see the suspect heading north of the rocks of the road. Bunch of cars running off the road. They suddenly went south on a highspeed chase then drove off a cliff in santa cruz but climbed out of the water unscathed. The suspect was arrested. If you do not know what you are going to do until you see a gun in your face. I tried to get away, in retrospect it was like a decision. I was traumatizing next day, it did not hit me until the next day how serious and scary it was. The Sheriffs Office tells me they try to see that the suspect links to other crimes not link to the video. Two people recovering from serious injuries from a shooting on interstate 580 in oakland yesterday afternoon. Altogether three men and a woman in their teens and 20s were shot. Two victims had less serious injuries, they are expected to survive. They had to shut down the freeway more than three hours to carry out the investigation, so final description of the suspect or vehicle involved. Eastbound interstate 580 a little more caused major backup this morning. The fire started at 10 30 on the shoulder of the freeway west of North Livermore avenue. Authorities shut down freeway lanes near the fire at least 90 minutes. The fire burned 20 acres before they got it under control, no word yet on what caused the fire. As we head into the weekend warming temperatures boost fire danger the bay area as we watch tomorrow especially into saturday and sunday. Basically into the weekend we take a look at the forecast heading into tomorrow, we work the numbers friday, saturday with low to mid 90s well inland and still fairly warm as we head towards your sunday forecast. Here is our thinking with temperature trends, they were on friday, temperatures rebound saturday, sunday not too much change, then we cool things off into early next week. This satellite picture is a typical summertime pattern out there, we have clear skies and lives in the fog on the coast. Some clearing proportions of the coastline are not completely clear. Outward San Francisco as we have more sunshine with cloud coverage not too far away. Current numbers right now 75 degrees in concord, san jose 76, napa 69, take a look at the numbers, its not a hot day, one of the cooler days of the week at also a bit of a wind out there as well in a few spots you can see fairfield gusting 29 miles per hour, a few more reports for you, livermore at 60 miles per hour. Here is the live camera above. Sunshine and patchy fog with low cloud covers give your picture later on tonight and which morning. Here is the plan, the expected cloud cover friday then into the afternoon hours we expect clouds to clear back on the shoreline, still patchy fog for beaches, mid60s for the coast, hotspots inland, not incredibly hot, mid to upper 80s tomorrow afternoon. Your forecast friday see concord is 85, antioch idiot, oakland 81, the coastline not warming up too much, just a heads up, swelling approach the coastline so keep that in mind, a lot of energy out there in the pacific so we can have sneak away and increased current activity tomorrow and into the weekend. Here is a look ahead of the fiveday. Temperatures heating up saturday, sunday fairly warm for saturday, 4 july then we cool things off into monday and tuesday of next week. Definitely you noticed the warm up beginning tomorrow as we head into friday. Ferry service resume for the First Time Since march, the ferry operates thursday through sunday with new safety guidelines. Masks will be required on the dock and on the boat. Crews will also disinfect with a fogging system after every ride. Passengers will be required to book tickets in advance. Everybody makes a reservation in advance on board to spot in the vessel keeping track of how many people we have coming and ensure the capacity. Not everything is open in july, museums and other buildings are closed but visitors have access to bathrooms and hiking and bike trails. Cafes will be open on a limited basis. Millions go back to work with the pandemic it shows with the numbers. The latest study of employment rates coming up next. Coming up at 6 00 two men arrested and number of illegal guns confiscated all in the quiet town of campbell. New information released today by police. Involving the district attorneys of San Francisco, boston and philadelphia. Deliver Department Says unemployment fell in june 2 just over 11 down from over 13 in may. Companies added nearly 5 million jobs but still 1. 4 Million People filed for Unemployment Benefits stocks rallied on the positive jobs report the dollop 92 points, the nasdaq up 53 point for another alltime high, the s p added 14. The index within a percent of the recordsetting february, markets closed tomorrow for the dependency holiday. The latest employment numbers do not cover the surgeon coronavirus cases pulling back from reopening his states across the country. A look at the job picture in california. In california new unemployment claims remain extraordinarily high according to the former edd director michael bernick. They are down slightly from the previous week. Just for the most recent week we have nearly 280,000 new unemployment claims filed in california. Way above what we average prior to the pandemic. With cases spiking these numbers do not reflect the governors new closure orders made this week. Up to now. As you say we have a clear plan of reopening various stages for the first time, the stages are halted and even some reopening many recently hired rehired folks are likely to be laid off again and or businesses are hugging until now. Even larger numbers above this very high number of 279,000. The untouched Public Sector now getting hammered. In may the numbers show Public Sectors to be the biggest loser of jobs. People are reluctant to spend in uncertain times. New employment claims will increase and for many employers, they hung on and hung on and hung out. Continued lockdowns will have more devastating effects unless the federal government comes up with a whole lot more relief which is already delayed until late this month or early next. State lawmakers blasting California Employment Development department claiming its failing people it is designed to serve. Offices are overwhelmed by people calling for help getting jobless benefits with out of work residents telling them they have gone without income for months. A request looks into the problem at edd. They are truly failing the standard. People are suffering tremendously. We have constituents who have gone without benefits since march. Just absolutely heart wrenching stories. Constituents who completed their entire life savings gone into debt who are in a deep panic. One in three californian workers filed for Employment Benefits since the pandemic began. Principles and eight School District gather for an in person meeting. Days later one of them tested positive for the coronavirus. Now the district is trying to figure out if they followed all the health and safety protocols. One California City makes it official they will begin finding people who do not wear masks in public. And earlymorning confrontation turns into a suspect fleeing a car with an officer shooting in self defense. Still to come details on the suspect with p police are now looking for. California florida and texas are seeing a rise in new kronos of virus infections. 10,000 cases to covid19 a new record for the state. They blame the recent rise in cases of people not Wearing Masks and not social distancing. The latest outbreak has many officials cracking down on restrictions. It takes one thing off of our plates that we have to be defensive about or explain to customers who do not want to wear a mask. Coronavirus cases are continuing to increase across the country. President trump doesnt plan to issue a mask mandate. We are learning more about the meeting with dozens of School Administrators in the south bay who may have been exposed to covid19, we understand the a person principal meeting for the santa clara unified School District happened to 19th. Days later one of the attendees tested positive. Elissa harrington has more on what happened. 13 days since the meeting according to district officials nobody else has tested positive for covid19 but there are questions as to why the meeting was held in person and watch the Health Guidelines are now. June 25 Board Meeting for the santa clara unified School District posted on youtube superintendent mentioned a Lea

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