Quickly found out he was right. Ive been running into quite a few different scams. So far this year the ftc received 18,235 reports of scams related to covid19 and collectively, americans have lost 13. 4 million to this type of fraud. Including fake apartment listings. Where a scammer uses social distancing as a convenient excuse. Aj showed us a series of emails from a suspected scammer named adam. He tells aj due to social distancing, he cant see the unit in person. He gets to the cell pushing aj to reserve the place before someone else does because other people are showing interest. The most interesting part about it is the price that he had on the property was probably 50 of the market rate. So it was really obvious that something was going on. So aj asked, is this a scam . Adam was ready with another excuse. This time blaming the federal government, saying the property was initially listed at a higher price but all homeowners had been asked to lower rents during the pandemic which
Parks closed in an effort to their parking lots closed outbreak county by county in because of this on our website, the region and santa clara reduce crowding and maintain county with the most 320, san social distancing. Ktvu. Com and on ktvu facebook with so many people at home and and instagram pages. Just about all other events canceled, people flocked to the francisco 152, a pretty beach and coast and other live in marim county. Recreation areas this weekend. New numbers released a sharp dropoff with 47 in there and you cant even find parking short time ago and Johns Hopkins University Reports more than 49,000 cases nationwide and theres been 600 deaths here in the united states. New york confirmed 25,000 case and 184 deaths and 125 deaths are in new york city. Starting today, new york Health Agencies will begin testing for possible treatments and underway to quickly turn a Convention Center in new york city into a huge Medical Center and yesterday a huge shut down began in new yor
All b. A. R. T. Riders. Chief alvarez expected to address these concerns in a meeting with b. A. R. T. Officials later t in oakland. Reporting live outside of fremont b. A. R. T. , julian glover, abc7 news. It is now 4 31. If youre just waking up, heres an update on weather and traffic. Hi, mike. Hi, everybody. Lets look at the winds, theyre blowing offshore once again even though theyre very light, theyre Strong Enough that it will bring us another warm, sunny day. Heres a look from mount tam, you can see the lack of cloud cover that is out there. A few passing high clouds, there may be a patch of fog up in the north bay, for the most part, temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. By noon, 67 at the coast. Low 70s for the rest of us. And we keep warming, 68 at the coast by 4 00. 76 to 78 which will set new record high temperatures. Is thf eveninthis evening, even hi, jobina. It is 4 31. We have an overall look at the map, not many slowdowns at the moment. Coming out of tracy for the supe
Far, speeds are in the green. It is early, not too many cars on the road just yet but a few cars at the bay bridge toll plaza. A backup in the cash lanes, no reports of problems. Speeds are in the green. San jose police say an officer fatally shot an axe carrying intruder at a power plant on the south side of the city late yesterday afternoon at the metcalf nfl center owned by calpine. Kpix 5 betty yu explains how it happened. Reporter in police dispatch, officers talk about an unusual weapon in a vehicle. There is a large sword on the front seat. I can see that. Copy. He might be coming back towards the vehicle. Theres a large sword on the front seat inside the vehicle. Reporter the suspect didnt cooperate with police. Then officers move in on the suspect. Shots fired. Copy. Shots fired. Gunshots to the chest. Copy. Well be on the southwest side gunshots to the chest. Reporter it happened at 5 p. M. At a building owned by calpine. The company confirmed the event was an intruder and La
Tus deadly. Hotter. And more dangerous. Tonight an excessive heat now at 11 00, the bay area heat wave turns deadsly and deadly and its about to get even hotter and more dangerous. Tonight an excessive heat warning is in place. Tomorrow is going to be the warmest day of the week. Thats after an unusually warm week already. Well be close to record highs. The numbers right now still warm in parts of the east bay where it is 103 and boy is it dark out there. Heat alert is posted until 9 00 tomorrow night except in San Francisco and right by the shoreline. Theres relief there. But temperatures will hit 107 degrees inland. Forecast highs will be as much as 23 degrees above average in livermore. So three things to remember, the peak of the heat is tomorrow. Theres relief on the way on friday with numbers beginning to cool a bit inland on friday and then we will get back to seasonal averages into next week. We have tomorrow to contend with. And we have the numbers for your weekend coming up.