Evacuation orders have happened in san matteo county, take a look. We are live over the fire. Look at all the smoke coming off of the mountains. Man, that is certainly intense as sky 7 gets a closer look for you us. You can see a bit of that orange glow coming off the ridge of the mountain right there in the trees and that dark smoke. We are covering this closely right now. Good evening, thank you for joining us tonight as we follow all of this. Reporter glad you are with us. Immediate evacuations are ordered for the communities of lo mamar and deerborne park and the state park including the baronco community and theres an Evacuation Center at pescidaro high school, now, we are there live, bring us up to date, please. This fire continues to rage inching up to a community of 200 to 300 people i spoke to several residents who gearing up and getting ready to evacuate the area. You can see behind us, the white smoke expanding and picking through the trees, you can see the flames rages as t
There are homes in that area. No word on acreage burn or a cause, but we are following all of this right now on on on o abc7news. Com, the abc7 news app and coming up at 4 00. Now we bring you getting answers. We have a packed show for you to discuss busy day of headlines. San Francisco Mayor london breed is taking questions. She is joining us to discuss everything from joe bidens pick of senator Kamala Harris for Vice President to San Franciscos current fight against covid19. But first we are very excited to be joined by the Senior Adviser to former president barack obama, Valerie Jarrett who served under mr. Obama during his entire two terms in office, and valerie joins us live from chicago. Hi, valerie. Hello, kristin. How are you doing . It seems like forever since i was on your show. Yes, it does feel like forever for many reasons. But it was last year in april when you just came to the studio when you released your book finding my voice. And, yes, indeed a lot has changed but its
We dont know what the governor is planning, we just got wind that hes going to be doing something on monday on that, it cant come a moment too soon in manhattan were there still ghost crowds, we are following other developments as well including the president , hes about an hour away from speaking to the nation, hes going to be heading to westminster over the weekend and visiting his brother who is in the hospital, we dont know much more about the details and whether the president or share anywhere details on his brother but we do know he is going to outline the latest on stimulus and where it stands and aware we have the executive action orders, we know as well that theres no one to take him up on capitol hill because no one is there, you look at a live shot at capitol hill where theres nobody live inside, the houses outcome of the senate is adjourned through labor day, if youre expecting any immediate action on stimulus, it is not happening right now at least if you want congressiona
For you. Mark, can we back up to the slides on the reproduction number. One second. Oh no, its okay. Give me just one second to back up to that. Those are very concerning numbers. We see if we reduce the reproductive number by a third, we hold steady at the same number of hospitalizations, but wed still see as many as four times of deaths here in San Francisco. But if we continue on this same scale, we could see deaths up to 800, and number of hospitalizations, 1,000 to over 3,000. That could clearly overwhelm our Hospital Systems. I know weve seen footage of people gathering in dolores park this weekend, and the possible impact that could have. Could you just speak to what kind of effect that behavior could have, not just on our people, but our ability to serve the health care needs. Yes [inaudible] i thi. Dr. Colfax i think its really important that we stay vigilant and do what we know works to stop the spread of the virus. That includes not going to large gatherings, and on beautifu
They can maintain operations as best possible while also people going to the command center to do this operation. Well, very clearly, it is a really challenging, and as other commissioners have indicated, really grateful that people like yourself have really stepped up and continue to do, as you say, the work that has to be done, along with the very key work, and congratulations on being head of this program. One question which is more technical has to do with the testing strategies. And your chart was great and sexu certainly keynoted on some of the areas that were concerned. On the other hand, you also pointed out that you were interested in reaching other vulnerable populations which are kind of a potential tinderbox, and im glad that you mentioned chinatown right now. Its a very low number, and some other asian populations out in the sunset which arent being tested, but we dont know that. What is your testing strategy to figure out a priority, and that came from one of the question