And im len keise. Well go to a live News Conference with bart officials underway right now. Good afternoon. Im here with the business and Consumer Service and Housing Agency to give you an update on the states effort around testing our renewed Testing Task Force with two new cochairs and our focus on some exciting news around new testing guidelines and an effort to make sure that were doing all we can in the state so the tool of testing is one we continue to rely on. How the spread will continue to move in our communities and we began doing that care within our hospitals and clinical delivery system. Then moving into phase two where the governor wanted to increase our testing capacity. We went from 2,000 tests a day to the early parts of april and late march to identifying the Testing Task Force as a key solution about galvanizing our testing and tocus on supply chain issues and organizing our Testing Systems across the state to identify our instruments and i haves and we all know that testing in california is a vital piece of our response not only to focus on taking care of patients and also to understand the patterns of transmission across the state in vulnerable communities and different parts of our state so that we can respond effectively and suppress transmission as we go forward. Working with academic partners to understand how pooled testing might be a strike thaty in populations and environments and really scale and allow precious testing resources to go far. Following the ability and challenges to get supplies at different times but also to look at different types of testing modalities and to really galvanize our research and our Testing Laboratory and community to begin to explore which new test modalities might be available in california. Today in announcing new cochairs with the Testing Task Force and that new mission to not only continue building up our testing capabilities, working on some important supply chain challenges that have reemerged with the increased demand of testing nationwide while other states across the nation. I want to announce our founding chief for the centers of infect us disease at the California Department of Public Health to really incredible leaders to clinical leaders who understand testing as it relates to covid 19 but Public Health responses are more broadly and are perfectly suited to help usher in the next phase in the testing journey in california to make sure the populations that need it the most get it in a timely way. With that, i want to turn to the doctor to make a few comments. Great, thank you so much secretary gally and let me start by thanking you and thanking the governor for your outstanding leadership, dedication, and commitment through this challenging time for our state, our country and navigating this significant Public Health crisis. I serve as the chief Health Officer at Kaiser Permanente to be asked to cochair this refocus covid19 Testing Task Force and to continue to move our state testing strategy forward building on the outstanding effort that the task force has done over the last few months. We support our members and communities across our footprint. E in cases makes it clear with a lot more being done to protect our communities from this unprecedented pandemic. In every one of those Public Health challenges, testing has been the forefront of our response. Its very clear that for us to be effective, we have to have a robust and well working testing system. Ensuring that we adopt the work that we are doing to the continuing challenges and evolving nature of this pandemic. I am truly excited to be here to provide some service to the people of california and look forward to it. Thank you very much. Thank you, both, and thank you for your agreeing to join as leaders of this dassing force. The know the members of the task force that made incredible contributions will appreciate your leadership and focus and as we continue youve been watching a Video Conference call from the state health and Human Services gally whos introducing the Testing Task Force and talking about strategies moving forward to get testing to people, to everybody and especially those in need just saying that testing must be available, affordable, and reliable. Of course this conference will continue on cbsn bay area calls today from bart and other transit agencies from across the country amid the quest for more federal funding asking for billions of dollars. Yeah, they are saying it is necessary in order to avoid devastating and permanent cuts to their systems. Taking a live look on capital hill where a coalition of Transit Agency is asking for the senate to approve 30 billion for federal funding as bus systems and train systems are in a position similar to bart, ridership down almost 85 , below prepandemic levels and revenue expected to drop over 1 billion over the next three years. The about city is spending more on ppe and deep cleaning efforts and barts current budget is continuing on receiving 250 million in federal funding for their losses and the board says the agencys financial future is heavily dependent on future funding allocations. We collectively must keep transit a viable option from an environmental sustainability point of view and economic point of view. As it stands right now, bart has a 2. 42 billion budget for fiscal year 2021 including hundreds of millions in cuts and postponing Capital Projects and implemented a one year hiring freeze. Everything is changing so often when it comes to whats coming in and whats going out, they are meeting to discuss their budget and refigure all of it every three months. Back to you. For the first time in 17 years, a man was federally executed this morning by lethal injection. Just hours after the Supreme Court voted the execution could move forward, 47yearold Daniel Lewis Lee spoke his last words saying youre killing a innocent man. Lee was a white supremacist and was convicted of murdering a family of three in arkansas. Relatives of lees victims tried to stop the execution but their concerns were not considered. It feels disingenuous to me for someone to say theyre doing this in our familys name and for us and no ones taken into account our wellbeing and health. In addition to lee, four other men will be executed by january 2021. New covid19 testing options in the south bay brought out hundreds today amid concerns surrounding testing accessibility. Quest diagnostics reporting the soaring demand for testing causing a backlog. Theyre opening up popup testing sites and the gilroy location is open through saturday and san jose sites will be open through friday. One site this morning opening with hundreds lined up ready for tests. We are excited to be here as you can see outside. Weve got a lot of people interested in getting tested, and i am proud of our community and county who wants to do this. Were hoping to go to college in the fall semester so taking apart in containing this virus. I dont have any symptoms but were getting tested basically for our family and friends who are at higher risk. Those popup sites found at the Santa Clara County auditorium and Independence High School from 103 and the south county annex from 1 till 6. As early as today, the state could impose new restrictions on al restrictions on Alameda County businesses and theyd have to go further with shut downs including fitness centers, worship services, hair salons, barbershops, nail salons and malls. Statewide, owl counties must shut down indoor dining, bars, wineries, zoos, and museums. Across the bay area, the orders have caused a lot of confusion for business owners. Early monday morning, many hair and nail salons and gyms just opened up after being closed for four months. This gym fit theory and Mountain View like most gyms reopening has to close its doors again two days of reopening. An even bigger blow, fit berry prides itself on being a studio designed to be private, very clean, and void of crowds. To keep tabs on whats open in your county, just check out our website, go to kpix. Com. The u. S. Has more than 3. 3 million confirmed coronavirus cases. 135,000 deaths. In florida, more than 8,000 people are hospitalized with the virus and in arizona, one out of every four people tested is positive. Theres a shortage of remdesivir where the drug is needed most. Hospitals in florida and texas are facing a shortage while facilities in the north and midwest have enough to spare. Right now the drug by foster city based gilead is the only medication authorized by the fda to treat the coronavirus. Hospitals with extra cant just ship it elsewhere on its own. Jeffrey epsteins long time confidant pleaded not guilty to charges she conspired with epstein to sexually abuse underaged girls. Her legal team is offering a 5 million bail package for her relief, which is due to fear overconstructing covid19 in jail. The prosecution said shes a flight risk after finding three different passports with her name and her association with over a dozen bank accounts. Myth busters host grant [ inaudible ] died at the age of 49. He hosted white rabbit project on netflix and known in hollywood for his work in electronics and animatronics. Former myth busters cohost tweeted that grant was a brilliant engineer, artist, and performer and working with him was so much fun. To wall street now, the dow is up a bit. More than 370 points has been flipping between gains and losses after the countrys ceo painted a picture of the pandemic and warning to Southwest Airlines employees, layoffs could be coming. Demand has to triple by the end of the year to support current Staffing Levels and ceo garret kelly said layoffs are a last resort but cannot be ruled out. Hundreds of layoffs at phils coffee. Theyll lay off more than 180 workers mostly in the bay area and plans to assist employees that want to reapply for jobs when demand returns to pre pandemic levels. Employees were informed by e mail their last day would be tomorrow. Heres meteorologist mary lee. Good afternoon. We are looking at beautiful weather and very pleasant summer day across our region and taking you through the summer day along the coast, breezy conditions around the bay and mid to upper 60s to low 70s and low to mid 80s inland with that sunshine. Were settling into that typical july weather pattern of warm temperatures inland. Mild around the bay and cooler at the coast. Taking you hourbyhour on future cast, well have that sunshine this afternoon and then for tonight, well see low clouds streaming back in along the coast right around the bay into tomorrow morning and then looking at that clearing as we head through the afternoon for wednesday. Temperatures tomorrow maybe a little bit warmer compared to today. Now lets show you what you can expect for the daytime highs and looking at 86 in concord and fairfield, low 80s in san jose. About 70 in oakland, 80 for redwood city and looking at mid 60s for san francisco, low 80s for santa rosa so daytime highs today right around where we should be for this time of year. Catching a bit of that on shore flow and thats the reason why were a lot more comfortable for today. For tomorrow again, temperatures a little bit warmer for your wednesday by a few degrees and then were going to cool it down looking ahead to thursday with that stronger ocean breeze, temperatures will be cooler on thursday and High Pressure builds in for us looking into the end of the week. With it, well see temperatures on the rise. Little bit warmer friday and then much warmer looking ahead to saturday and for sunday but nothing like the hot weekend that we just had. Back to you. Coming up, Coronavirus Infection explained by a famous tv scientist. Bill nye how about poor fred wilson . What a shame. So soon after retiring. I hear his wife needed help with the funeral expenses. 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He said its literally a matter of life and death. On cbs this morning he broke down how particles fall once theyre in the air. When i put baking powder in the air, you can see it here. You can also see the baking powder up here. It doesnt fall like a rock. It stays in the air so when someone breathes in your presence, its very like in a closed environment where particles cant blow away and theyll get inside you. This isnt Rocket Science but its very much in your every day experience. Please wear a mask. Please. He also demonstrated the effectiveness of different types of masks showing how hard it is to blow out a candle and he said if your mask doesnt cover your nose, its like not wearing one at all. A robbery takes a deadly turn and a bay Area Store Clerk is facing murder charges for trying to stop a suspected thief. That story and more at 5 00. All right. That is going to do it for us here at kpix5, news at noon. Remember, we are on 24 7 streaming on cbsn bay area. Our next newscast is at 5 00. Have a great afternoon. Steffy hey, how about we go for, uh, another ride . You know, we could go up the highway up to Santa Barbara and that vineyard we used to go to. Liam [ sighs ] steffy we could sit on the terrace for dinner. Liam iii have dinner plans. I should probably go. Steffy oh, well, you know what . We could, um, we could call hope. You could ask her to join us. Im kidding. Liam ah. Steffy im kidding. Liam [ laughs ] thats weird. Liam right. Steffy so youre actually gonna go through with it . Another wedding . Like mother like daughter, you know, except it took brooke, like, a couple of years
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