Spread of this virus. Months after the cdc first recommended putting masks on your face President Trump is finally catching up telling americans to mask up and tweeting the first photo of himself wearing a mask. Himself tweeting that out saying it is a patriotic to wear a mask. Well happening today, President Trump will be restarting his daily coronavirus briefings for the First Time Since april but cnns reporting that apparently doctors Anthony Fauci and deborah birx who are the lead doctors in the Coronavirus Task force are currently not scheduled to be there and that has some people worried that thats going to turn into a Televised Campaign speech for the president joe johns has more. President trump announced his regular coronavirus briefings are making a comeback. Were going to give you a lot of briefings and the next. We can over the next few weeks. Instead of focusing on the recent surge in cases in the high human cost of the virus across the country. Trump gave his attention to
Clear out future cast for is going to show us that you can see right now visibility down to a few miles for some of the shore freeway areas. The fox really going to be sticking for coastal spots for the rest of the afternoon and then pretty much sunny and clear everywhere else temperatures smile to even ones, well have those coming up in just a bit daria thanks a lot. Lets start with the latest coronavirus numbers the u. S. Set to pass a grim milestone, a 141,000 americans have died of covid across the country nearly 60,000 people are in the hospital. The cdc is forecasting more than a 157,000 americans will be killed by the virus by august 8th. And now Health Officials and government leaders are pushing for more americans to wear masks. Our decisions not our conditions are decisions that will determine our fate and future as it relates to the spread of this virus. And months after the cdc first recommended it the president is now telling americans to mascot and showing himself, wearin
Here in california . For the first time today we heard San Francisco city leaders admit that is plausible. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Abc 7 News Reporter is breaking down the latest numbers just coming in you to. A pretty jarring warning. We know cases are skyrocketing here in Southern California but to hear dr. Grant colfax admit we could reach a new york level crisis by late summer early fall is a real wakeup call. In San Francisco more than 5500 covid cases have been diagnosed. Today we learned whats being done to expand Testing Capacity. Wereng mak three marexpa. Reporter in an effort to curb covid testing backlogs across the city mayor london breed announced three main additions including 400 new testing slots at the embarcadero test site, two new mobile pop up testing sites one of which starts this week, and a third test site launching in august in the Southeast Side of the city. All of this will increase the citys Testing Capacity by 45 . Crucial help but getting te
More important, new york has had three times the deaths california has had. Back in april almost ten times as many people in the bay area may have had the virus than reported. It is explained it could mean a lot more testing. The mayor says testing will increase significantly. Locations like this will add more appointments. One expert said testing is critical and so are studies that give a clearer picture of where we are with this virus. I am excited to announce a significant expansion of testing in San Francisco. San francisco is recently adding more than 3,000 covid tests each day and that will be going up. In total we will have an additional 1400 testing spots per day. The embarcadero location will have 14 spots and a third city site and two popup sites will be coming for higher infection rates. Turn around time can be 72 hours to several days, an issue that extends beyond the state. They say testing and Contact Tracing is a way to contain the virus. We need to do more, now especial
Quietly taken down. Why it was removed may be a sign in their times we live in. A resident got permission to paint the mural on broadway street as part of a fourth of july public art celebration. The city supplied yeller poster paint to do it. Because we were using the posterboard paint that would eventually deteriorate, my understanding was that the mural would last as long as the pain lasted. Last thursday the city washed that sign away, only after being contacted by a local attorney who said if the street was now a public foreign, forum, she wanted a sign of her own reading mag 82020. So i figured this would be a new publix public space open for discussion and its short form make America Great again, based the ability of illegal fight, the city finally decided that dan sign is a traffic hazard and could cause accidents, and they removed in the middle of the night. He says he does not consider black lives matter to be a political statement, he understands the situation the city was i