He has been with us in the hospital the longest. He has had a really rough course. Many, many days where we didnt know if he was going to make it the next hour much less the next day. Reporter this was tom, a physical specimen, an attribute may have helped save his life. The fan of this man. He will never give up. Reporter today, the finish line. Released from the hospital and on his way to home care. He looked tired and weak. But he is alive and able to whisper a couple words. How are you feeling . Great. Reporter happy to go home . Yes. Reporter covid made him race for his life. Today, tom wins. We are glad he is out. How serious is this problem . Hospitalization continues to be a key data point. This graph shows the number of californians hospitalized with the virus since april 1st. The yellow represents the people in the icu. The blue, nonicu patients. Both continue to rise steadily. Today, nearly 6,200 people are in the hospital statewide. Thats an alltime high for the 21st day in a row. Lets look at where in the bay area people are being treated. 550 people were hospitalized across the region. You can see the breakdown. Pick your county. Start santa clara county, 112 people in the hospital. 133 people in the hospital in alameda county, which remains the bay area hot spot. San mateo county is one in california tapping into surge beds. They readied the event center to take overflow patients. Since then, the state lease ed seton hospital. Seton is housing the sickest inmates from san quentin. The situation is so grave there, tents are set up in the parking lot of the main hospital. A new outbreak at a bay area nursing home in marin county. It has seen its cases more than double just in the past week. More than 60 patients tested positive. Three have died. All of whom were seniors. More than a dozen Staff Members have also contracted the virus. We will look at how the situation became so dire so quickly tonight at 6 00. They are prisoners now. Soon, they will be released. 8,000 prisoners could be released beginning next month. Today, the governor announcing a plan that stems from the covid outbreak at our prisons. Nearly 2,400 people in the system have tested positive. That includes more than 1,500 inmates and employees at san quentin. The state prison Officials Say releasing low risk and nonviolent prisoners six months early will allow more space to quarantine and socially distance at the prison. You cant have that kind of overcrowding and expect a good outcome when covid19 is raging in our state. This is a good first step. We need to do more to reduce our prison population. The state plans to test eligible inmates for the virus before they are released. The scramble is on. Starting monday, a slew of new businesses can reopen in the south bay. Here is a list for santa clara county. It includes barber, hair salons, nail salons. As long as they can meet a list of new requirements. Also gyms and fitness centers. Robert handa is in san jose where he talked to salon owners. Reporter you can imagine how much salon owners have been waiting to reopen. This barber shop in downtown san jose has been boarded up since march 16th, after the First Public Health order. Now, there are signs of life inside. Dave is the owner. He is a familiar face from a wellknown downtown murl. Now starting monday, he gets to resume cutting and shaving in real life. We are taking every measure possible and even measures that arent mandatory to ensure everybody is safe. Reporter the owner of this salon showed us safeguards to meet the required social distancing protocol and industry directives for nose, mouth and eye protection. We have a lot of protection, Safety Measures taken in place, safety barriers. Reporter the Health Department reminded the public, one customer at a time inside. Wait in your car fll ituntil time for your appointment. Salons are not accepting walkins. Reporter one of the barbers regular customers is ready to accept anything. This is what dave do for me. I want to get back in there. Reporter it doesnt appear anyone will have any problem following the rules. The county did set up a hotline, 8668707725, for the public to report any possible violations with an Enforcement Team set up by numerous county agencies, including the d. A. s office. In san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. What are the rules when it comes to exercising outside in the south bay . Santa clara county says sports that involve close contact arent allowed. Football, basketball, soccer. If you are able to modify the game like dribble your own basketball while keeping social distance, thats allowed. Also, unless you live in the same household, no sharing equipment. You can rent balls, frisbees and other items. Outdoor classes are allowed if people register in advance. Social distancing is required. Of course, masks are a must. Good news for humans and for animals as well. The San Francisco zoo is preparing to reopen. The mayor announcing today the city will allow it to reopen as early as monday with an improved safety plan, of course. The zoo has been struggling financially since it was closed due to the pandemic. Other changes in San Francisco, here you go, Companies Leading boating and fishing expeditions will be provided with guidelines for how they can reopen. Details are unclear at this point other than trips may only involve up to 12 people. The city will permit grocery markets and other stores to resume the use of reusable bags. Next round of reopenings will include personal care businesses such as haircuts, massages, tattoos. An update will be given wednesday on when those businesses can reopen. This is partly a baseball story. A lot more about a family story and priorities. One of the most popular athletes in bay area history is stepping away from the game for the season. Buster posy announced he is opting out after adopting newborn twins. Reporter he is the best player. He wont be on the team this season. He is sitting out Major League Baseballs return to the diamond. The threetime world series champ made the announcement today. He and his wife just adopted identical twin girls. They were born premature. They are doing well but will need to be in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for some time. For their safety, he is picking family over baseball. From a baseball standpoint, it was a tough decision. From a family standpoint and feeling like im making a decision to protect children, our children, i think it was relatively easy. T reporter the giants support his decision. They are open to looking outside the organization for a veteran to replace posy behind the plate. The giants are set to open the season july 23rd in los angeles against the dodgers. We wish him the best. President trump is in florida, one of the coronavirus hot spots. He had a meeting with u. S. Southern command near miami to discuss Drug Trafficking prevention. He met with cuban and venezuela dissidents. Floridas governor, who pushed florida to an early reopen, is calling in for help. We will end up having in a short order an additional 1,000 boots on the ground that can a sift in teassist. We went from no cases in the icu to being close to 90 plus percent of capacity. As more get sick, testing lines get longer and testing supplies are running short. The president talked about immigration and daca today. You can watch ton oit on our si station tonight. Up next, whats it going to look like on campus or at home . More bay area schoolleasing pla. A safe way to open doors without touching them. A 13yearold entrepreneur running a 3d printing business from his own home. I will get you ready for the weekend and i will show you when theres a little bit of a koo cooldown coming our way. Naya rivera is presumed dead. The 33yearold actress vanished while boating with her son and has not been found. Dive teams have been searching the lake. They believe he drowned. Her 4yearold son was found sleeping on the boat she rented. The boy told investigators his mother never got on the boat after she went swimming. We are learning about the deadly standoff last night in Contra Costa County. It started yesterday morning when sheriffs deputies responded to a Domestic Violence call. A woman reported she was held hostage overnight by her exboyfriend. She claimed he sexually assaulted her and poured gasoline on her and tried to set the house on fire. Fortunately, she was able to escape. Deputies tried to get him to surrender after nine hours of a standoff. He came out of the house and Authorities Say he shot at members of the s. W. A. T. Team injuring three deputies. They returned fire and he was killed. The three deputies shot were treated and are okay. Happening right now, a decision that impacts thousands of families in the east bay. The Oakland Unified School district announcing plans for the school year which begins next month. District leaders are leaning towards starting the school year online. This could evolve into Small Group Lessons and eventually lead to a hybrid approach. We are following the story. They are meeting right now via zoom. We will bring you more details as it comes in on our 6 00 newscast. Another east bay School District announcing its plans. Students in the west Contra Costa County unified will stay home when School Starts in mid august. It will be online learning. Phase one calls for all 54 schools to distance learn online initially. When its safe, phase two will launch, allowing students to return to the classroom in small groups. Everyone wants to make sure that before we put students in physical buildings and the staff who supports those students that people can be safe. That means we need to make sure we have ppe, we have the proper procedures. Thats whats happening in west coco district. More details tonight starting in just a few minutes. Silicon valley is famous for young entrepreneurs. We immediate one helping to fight coronavirus at just 13. 13. It started with an idea and a lot of the 3d printers. Lets bring in scott budman. Reporter this man saw a problem. How we touch things and wanted to help. The 13yearold investor calls this device the safe touch pro. Its lighter and an antimicrobial. It gets noisy. Reporter noisy. I have to say im glad that he knows how to fix every single one of them. Reporter he is impressing san mateo county. We declared it your day. Reporter today. Basically, reached out to him. His device saves lives. Make no mistake about it. Reporter an idea inspired by his Silicon Valley roots. I get inspired. Reporter he says he would love to get these in the hands of hospital workers and Ride Sharing Companies like uber and lyft. Scott budman, nbc bay area news. What were you doing at 13 . Playing in the backyard. I dont know. Nothing. Hanging out with friends. I was practicing weather reports. What were you doing . Im sure you were. Another warm day. It has been a yes, thats right. We do have high clouds moving on by. Its filtering the sun a little bit. Really just making it a nice day to be outside. After all, its july. Getting 90s isnt that bad. The good news as i have been saying is, we dont have any strings of 100s coming our way. We dodged a bullet with that. Certainly this week. As we head through tomorrow, what i wanted to start off with on our forecast is to show you that this area of hot High Pressure is still in place to the south of us. This will continue to try to bring in the heat tomorrow. We continue to also have some patchy fog at the coast. A little westerly breeze. Thats whats keeping us out of the 105 to 110 degree heat. That is the good news. As we roll through tomorrow morning, its another refreshing start for us with crisp, clean air. 61 in the south bay. Peninsula, 59. The trivalley at 60. Patchy fog here near San Francisco. Down to 56. 59 in the east bay. Lets get a look at the fog. Really, kind of zoom in here around San Francisco, oakland, berkeley. See some of the poatchy clouds. As we roll through the afternoon, that starts to clear out. We get sunshine back. As we move through tomorrow, there isnt any big adjustments to the temperatures. We expect a sunset at 8 31. A lot of daylight, even though gradually we are seeing less sun here. 89 in san jose. Morgan hill at 95. Over to the east bay, hottest weather will be here. You are closest to the heat thats trying to move in. We have you 95 in livermore. Take you over to the bay, real good there. 85 in palo alto. San mateo, we have some of the best weather, 77 degrees. For San Francisco, yes, its another cool day. We have some 50s in the marina. Its chilly, just how you like it in july. The north bay, 92 in napa. As we head through the extended forecast, in San Francisco we keep it very stable here with some upper 60s the next seven days. For the inland valleys, the 90s this weekend. Drop it a little bit early on in the week and then some 80s coming back wednesday, thursday and friday. No big wind events as we head through the next seven days. I thought that was important to highlight with the hot temperatures. While the fire danger is up, we dont see any major wind. What about grilling . I had this feeling a lot of you might be grilling tomorrow. I thought, why not pull this graphic out . We never get tired of it. 11 00 a. M. , 82 degrees. We got 91 at 2 00 p. M. Flip the third burger, 94 degrees and sunny. See how i did that . Three burgers, three dogs, we each get one. We will be full. Based on that graphic, i like my burger medium rare. You have one of those nonmeat burgers. Impossible burgers. Those are good. Thanks, jeff. Coming up, county fairs may be canceled, that doesnt mean you cant get a taste of the food. We will show you where next. This cheeseburger is the best its about to get bester baby menutaur make it a double, yeah nice mane try my 5. 99 southwest cheddar cheeseburger combo and make it a double for a buck more. Order now with no contact delivery. Get a load of my southwest cheddar cheeseburger. Let menutaur make it a doubleeee, yeah its beautiful say what . I said its bea. Try my 5. 99 southwest cheddar cheeseburger combo and make it a double for a buck more. Order now with no contact delivery. And the hidden smiles. The foggy glasses, and the muffled laughs. A simple piece of fabric makes a big statement i care. Wear a mask. Lets all do our part to slow the spread. Another bay area county added to the watch list. Sonoma county got word today. If numbers dont improve by monday, a number of businesses would have to close their indoor operations. That include the things you see on your screen. Outdoor dining Indoor Dining will be taken outdoors. No more tasting rooms. That would have to be taken outdoors as well. Firefighters are giving us a look at the changes they have had to make. Fire safety during this pandemic. Here are some of the examples. It begins the moment you arrive here at the command post. Signage is posted throughout camp. Look at this. Reminding firefighters, Law Enforcement and contractors to maintain the cdc recommended six feet of social distancing. Of course, to wear the cloth facial coverings at all times. A lot of changes for them. Increased hygiene. A lot more hand washing away from the front lines and especially during meals. Many of us go to summer fairs for the food. This year, the marin county fair is banking on that and hosting a dre drivethru food fair. Organizers still want people to get a taste of the fun. You can get corn dogs, lemonade, funnel cakes. Organizers hope this will be a hit. I think individuals are looking for something different, especially those that have been safely sheltering at home for a long time now. We do expect a pretty good turnout. Its open until 8 00 p. M. Tonight and saturday and sunday from 11 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. The same hours next weekend. The final night for the Pink Triangle in San Francisco. Its the 25th anniversary atop twin peaks. It features 2,700 led pink lights. It looks beautiful. It turns on tonight one last time before next year at 9 00 p. M. We have been celebrating the class of 2020 since many didnt get a proper ceremony. Our final tribute when we come back. Hi. Were glad you came in. Whats on your mind . Can you help keep these guys protected online . Easy. Connect to the xfi gateway. What about wireless data options for the family . You can customize and save. What about internet speeds that can keep up with my gaming . Lets hook you up with the Fastest Internet from xfinity. And now with our stores reopening, were putting Healthy Practices in place. Come visit a store today. Stop in or book an appointment online at a time that works for you. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Ask. Shop. Discover at your local xfinity store today. Grab a box of 15 or try them loaded. Get em now with no contact delivery. Green day front man is selling his home in Upper Rockridge for more than 7 million. Five bed rooms, six bathrooms. It includes a sound system, of course, a media room and a tworoom Recording Studio where green day used to record their songs. The ceo of twitter is pledging 3 million to mayors trying to bridge americas wealth gap. He is partnering with the group. They say its needed now to help families struggling during the pandemic. It will help mayors in 15 cities. Preparing for a possible confrontation in Contra Costa County. How police and businesses are getting ready for counterprotesters. Next on nightly news, overwhelmed staff fighting this pandemic. An exclusive look inside a hard hit icu and the life and death decisions being made every day. Lester holt is anchoring from l. A. He joins us in about a minute. We want to end on something good and something that makes us smile, reflect and get inspired. For the past few months we have been flooded with pictures of graduates. We have been happy to show them on air. From everyone here, we congratulation the class of 2020. Test, test, test tonight hospitals tonight, hospitals across the country under siege from covid19 florida and texas hitting staggering new records. Icus running out of beds President Trump in the hot zone in Miamidade County where one in three tests are coming back positive. Testing lines stretching for blocks. In arizona, theyre bracing for the morg to hit capacity. Texas governor threatening another shutdown if residents dont wear masks and despite floridas spike, disney world reopening tomorrow lebron james arriving there to begin practicing can the nba keep the virus out of the bubble also, inside the covid unit
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