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Transcripts For KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At 5pm 20240712

Are cuts we can absorb and it will not diminish our ability to provide essential services. The Police Officers association says, as an organization, they do support in investing in communities of color, saying they are concerned that by not telling vacancies, the department will be stretched thin her. The mayor said despite the unprecedented economic fallout from the pandemic, this budget does not include layoffs. She is asking unions to agree to a wage freeze for the next 2 years to keep as many people working as possible. I want to be very clear, the unions dont agree to delay raises, we will be forced to lay people off. We will be forced to cut city services. Reporter the mayor is saying just because there is a pandemic and hardship, does not mean that the city can ignore Mental Health and homelessness. The mayor did announce the creation of the office of donated care, and getting those experienced in Mental Health, city services, and addressing homelessness. The budget is funding 1500 new units of supportive housing. That is part of the homeless Recovery Plan to move 4500 people from hotels, shelters, and the streets, into housing over the next 2 years. Reporter it does appear that the city is far from finished with its response to the pandemic. The budget directs 93 million from the citys general fund to bes bent over the next 2 years combating coronavirus. Live in San Francisco, ktvu fox2 news. We are moving to this, a veteran San Jose Police officer is under arrest, charged with using his private Security Company to commit insurance fraud, tax evasion, wage theft, and 18 million in money laundering. Robert foster, the owner of atlas private security self surrendered and will be arraigned on felony charges in november. His wife, and eight other Company Employees are being charged with multiple counts. It now to the pandemic. California appears to have surpassed 500,000 confirmed cases today. Overall, the numbers are moving in a better direction. As of yesterday, there are more than 8000 new infections. Were a total of 493,000. The 14 day average has been declining for a week. 96 deaths were reported. That is a significant drop from the last two days. The deaths have reached more than 9000. Hospitalizations and icu patients are lower. California recorded its first coronavirus death of a child. The victim died at valley childrens itll earlier this week. Officials say the victim was a teenager and had other Health Conditions. They are now not revealing any information. Only 9 of the coronavirus cases her children in california. Officials in Contra Costa County are urging people to stay safe and protect themselves. During a media conference, Health Officials said Community Transmission of the virus is accelerating. They called on the residents to follow the local and date guidance to protect families and fellow Community Members from getting sick. Right now, 74 of the icu beds are full. We do not want to be in a position where we reach capacity for the people that need the icu dont get it. That is what has happened in other places. It is really important to stem the spread so that it does not happen. To make Health Officials say they are trying to reach out to those that are being disproportionately affected by the virus, including latino and africanamerican residents. To oakland, renters at risk of eviction demonstrated outside of the offices of a landlord group. The Union Members and others gathered outside of the lamp him Company Offices on telegraph, pushing the message of rent cancellation and eviction protections. Protesters are dealing with coronavirus they had their community hard. They are facing another form of fear, becoming homeless. We just got a notice saying the rent will increase by 225 at the end of august. That is on top of what we already know. What will we do . If the rent is not canceled, how do we afford to live where we are . Reporter the renters are covered by an eviction moratorium. However, if youre not being able to repay thousands of dollars in rent when the policy expires. With 600 that the federal government was giving a weekly to those that were unemployed runs out tonight at midnight. It will affect millions of people. John joined us after speaking with people that are very concerned about the benefits expiring. They are really wondering what comes next . Reporter this is getting very serious. If we dont get this thing renewed, what we will have is another Economic Disaster on top of a major Economic Disaster. Reporter when the 600 weekly federal on employment supplement ends on friday, come saturday morning, 30 million recipients of unemployment benefits, including more than 3 million in california will fall on an average of 65 , despite this reality, congress is not acting to renew the benefit. That will do grievous financial damage to the recipients, and degrade the overall economy. Example . My chair and food Delivery Driver omar, whose business all but collapsed with the pandemic. Anita beale to pay rent. On top of that, i use the federal bonus on a down payment for a used car to try to lower my monthly payment. I want to make payments on the car. Reporter with the federal bonus running out, he, who does not want to loose his apartment and car, must return to risky rideshare driving, risking himself, during the regular cold and flu season. I have been around sick passengers and had a couple of days of wondering. With coronavirus, it is 5 to 14 days of wondering if i have a. Reporter this is a salon receptionist. She has a theater degree. Once we heard that the shutdown was going to affect my job, it closed immediately. Reporter that was four and half months ago. Four months was a fruitless fight to get any benefits at all. I just started receiving benefits from them two or three weeks ago. There was a battle of me trying to contact them about what was going on with my account. Reporter she will be cut off from the weekly federal payment, as of saturday. I am nervous about the future. I will be moving soon. My lease is up. We do not know what will happen. Maybe if they could just phaseout the bonus, instead of just sending people off the cliff. Reporter Congress Went on a break over the weekend. It is expected to replace the 600 with another amount. How much that is, and when it will come . That is still unknown, and scary to 30 million interested and frightened recipients. As we just mentioned, Washington Congress has adjourned for the weekend, without a deal onyx ending the enhanced unemployment benefits, or federal moratorium on evictions. Both of them expire tonight. Republicans that want to cut the 600 per week boost down to 200. The gop did offer a oneweek extension of the benefits while the two sides work on the bigger bill. The democrats argue that they did pass the bill 10 weeks ago, it is republicans that have failed to negotiate. The white house is pushing back. A temporary solution to make sure that unemployment, the enhanced unemployment continues, has been rejected, not once, but multiple times. First fall, then are the votes for it in the senate. The republicans are also putting more stimulus. The Democratic Leaders are set to meet with the white house negotiators in the Speakers Office tomorrow morning. On wall street, Silicon Valley tech giants push the indices into positive territory after an early slump. The dow was up 114 points. The nasdaq jumped 157 points. It was about 1. 5 . The s p was up 24 points. The shares in apple sort 10. 5 on strong earnings. On capitol hill, the House Committee hearing from three of the top leading health experts, they wanted answers on the nations response to the pandemic. Lauren blanchard has more on the hearing. We hope as we get into the fall and early winter, we will have a vaccine that we can say would be safe and effective. Reporter various doctors tell the House Select Committee on the coronavirus positive news about a possible covid19 vaccine. The lawmakers had questions. Wire all of the other countries defeating the disease and we are not . There was such a diversity of response in this country from different states. We really did not have a unified option. Reporter 4. 5 million americans have tested positive for the virus and more than 152,000 have died. Admiral gerard acknowledged right now, the demand for testing is so high that it is lowing down results, making Contact Tracing more difficult. Dr. Anthony fauci, what does testing and Contact Tracing play . This is one of a number of tools. Reporter jim gordon went after him for not calling for an and to the protest as we have seen an increase over the last few months. He says people should avoid crowds as much as possible. To make sure the government limit the protesting . I am not in a position to determine what the government can do . Made comments on dating a baseball. Immaculately that people that have more of a position to do that. Reporter despite the exchange, President Trump tweeted after the hearing in support of both men. In washington, lauren blanchard, foxnews. Bay area salon owners are rallying to get back to work. At 5 30, the protest they how to urge officials to allow them to open indoor salons. A Crime Investigation in vallejo. , city councilmember is reacting after his Campaign Office is vandalized with a racial slur . Florida is bracing for hurricane. When will the storm make landfall . We have the updated weather track. As a in august, we have a warming trend. We have more on your weekend outlook, coming up. Off family care has a dry touch formula that protects from mosquitoes so you can focus on what means the most. Off sc johnson thats why they trust raid ant and roach to quickly protect their family. Raid. Americas most trusted insect control brand. We are learning about a massive twitter hack that impacted highprofile accounts like barack obama, joe biden, and elon musk this month. Prosecutors say a teenager from florida was the mastermind behind it. The 17yearold was arrested today and is facing 30 felony charges. They say the tweets offered to send 2000 for every 1000 sent to an anonymous bitcoin address. He skimmed people around the world out of more than 100,000 in bitcoin. Vandals targeted the Campaign Office of of Vallejo City Councilmember earlier today. They spraypainted a racial slur and antipolice messages. Henry lee spoke with the councilmember and has more on the investigation. Reporter this is the latest example of vandal showing up in the middle of the night at a politicians door. It happened in oakland, now in vallejo. Reporter a racial slur, defund the police department, black lives matter. Those messages were sprayed early friday outside of the downtown Campaign Office of the Vallejo City Council member. I dont know who did this. Im not surprised in the sense that the rhetoric has been building. Reporter he says he has been pushing for reform. I have never been called a racial slur by someone of color. I think, whether it is tied to the Mayors Campaign or not, i think people are very resistant to change. Reporter Surveillance Video shows a woman spray painting at 2 15 in the morning. It is vandalism and hate speech. This is an attempt to be divisive, and get away from the issues. Reporter the police bent the morning investigating this a crime. They said this is a despicable act of hate that will never be tolerated in the city of vallejo. We will conduct a thorough investigation and seek to identify the perpetrators of this disgusting hate crime against councilmember brown. I do not tolerate Police Brutality. Or racial profiling. Reporter he says he has been supported by the lease union. This is him standing beside the Current Union president. I did not ask for their endorsement in this election. Nor have i received it. Reporter in june, detective fire through windshield, killing sean onto rose after mistaking his hammer for a gun. Vallejo mayor, former officer with the department was also denouncing the vandalism. I am very upset by this. This is vile and racist. It is uncalled for in our community. Reporter the Vallejo Police say depending on any leads they develop, they could call in the fbi. Henry lee, ktvu fox2 news. Thank you for that report. Police in berkeley are looking for three people that they say he robbed a drugstore and then ran over a Police Officers foot as they tried to get away. This happened last night around 9 15 at the cvs store near rose street. And officer on patrol saw the robbery happening and drew her gun when she saw the three robbers. The officers fired shots, but no one was hurt. The suspects escaped in a gray car and ran over the officers foot during the get away. Police say she is on administrative leave, per standard protocol for the investigation. We are now tracking the tropics. Hurricane isaias is making its way to the United States. The category one hurricane cruise through as it heads through the bahamas and south florida. It will skirt the coast of florida on saturday and sunday, while making landfall in north carolina. Parts of florida are under a hurricane watch with Tropical Storm impacts expected in the state. It is a fluid situation. We do not be prepared for an impact in the data florida. So many floridians are worried about facing a hurricane while dealing with the ongoing surge of coronavirus cases. This is our meteorologist with more on the weather. Yes, we are tracking this hurricane. It is no longer a Tropical Storm. The track has shifted more to the west. That is over the last day or so. This is the latest. Lets look at the satellite on hurricane isaias. This is not a welldefined eye. These models show you the projected path over the next few days. This is the Hurricane Centers track. This is the latest information on hurricane isaias. The wind is going at 80 miles an hour to the northwest at 15 Miles Per Hour. It is maintaining category one strength. We will come in closer to florida as we go into the weekend. It could make landfall. It is very close to West Palm Beach late in the day on saturday. One to the north as well. We will follow the track to the north into monday and tuesday of next week. It could impact the carolinas as we go into early next week. Right now this is a category one hurricane with wind at 80 miles an hour. In the bay, we have low clouds and fog. What is different today from yesterday, we have clearing. This is north of the golden gate bridge. This is a different story today. We did have some clearing. This is closer to stinson beach. On the map, we will show you the current numbers. Fairfield is n91. We have livermore at 80s x. San jose is a 78. In the north bay, santa rosa is at 83 degrees. This is the live camera looking at mount diablo. We have plenty of sunshine up above and sunshine for parts of the coastline. The weekend forecast will be a warmup. On august 1, it will warm up. We have clearing skies on sunday. It could be cooler. Tomorrow will be one of the warmer days of the week. As far as the overnight lows, we start out in the 50s. We have areas of fog near the coast and the bay. This is the set up tomorrow. We have 60s all the way to the 90s on saturday. Coming up, we will take a close look at the forecast. We look into the new week. We could be talking about cooling changes. We have more in the full forcast coming up in a few minutes. This is been my home for 23 years. I have lost everything. Fire rips through an Apartment Building in San Francisco, leaving nearly a dozen people without a home. Up next, why the residents believe the fire may have been intentionally set . The mayor of cisco has joined the fight to have undocumented immigrants counted in the census. Want restaurants to open . And schools . Want the economy to get back on track . Youre not alone. And you can help make it happen. Stay 6 feet apart. Wash your hands. Wear a mask every time you leave your home. Choose to join the fight against covid19. Do your part. Slow the spread. 10 people are without a place to live and to their apartment complex was damaged in an earlymorning fire in San Francisco. The flames were breaking out around 2 00 this morning near powell and van water streets in the citys north beach neighborhood. Some residents who suspect that the fire was intentionally set. This is been my home for 23 years. Ive lost everything. Reporter pamela lives on the first floor of this Apartment Building on the corner of powell and van water in north beach. Her unit went up in flames early this morning. The phone video shows fire engulfing the rear of the building. She was asleep in a loud noise jolted her from bed just before 2 30 a. M. I was awakened by a large explosion and smoke. I knew it came from the garage where my van was parked. Reporter she saw flames underneath her vehicle in the carport. She raced upstairs to warn her neighbors, call 911, and ran into the streets screaming for help. I was sleeping and my wife woke me up. The lady that lives there, she was yelling, you k

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