News at 6. Now at 6 with the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus and mounting pressure to protect california inmates from covid19 governor Gavin Newsome announces thousands of inmates could soon be freed from prison. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman now with covid19 racing through the state prison system. Governor newsom is taking additional action to slow the virus is spread by thinning out the prison population through an Early Release program kron fours dan kerman is live for us now and dan as we understand it has many of these inmates almost a 1000 of them could be released by the end of august. Thats right 8,000 by the end of august so far the prison population has already been reduced by about 10,000 add another to that and thats going to happen in less than 2 months. Of the more than 2300 current state Prison Inmates that are positive with covid19. More than half are at san quentin with more than 30 inmate deaths statewide so far the governor has announced plans to speed up the Early Release program and thin out the prison population. Under a new plan 8,000 debates could be eligible for release by the end of august with 4800 of those eligible before the end of this month and prison Officials Say no members of that group are violent or serious offenders are prisons are only supposed to hold 89,000 people. And they hold upwards of a 110,019 1000 people and so its easy for folks to get infected by covid because our prisons are overcrowded so we applaud the governors efforts pull that release vow while proponents of criminal Justice Reform support the plan. Victims rights advocates say this is too much too quickly or agency has been overwhelmed with calls from victims today terrified and completely traumatized seeing this in the media and trying to figure out if that means that. Their perpetrators coming back into the community christine ward is with californias crime victims alliance. We want to make sure that there is a safety net out there. Out here in our communities for them and also for the public theres reentry infrastructure in this in this state, but james king with the Ella Baker Center for human rights says families and support systems are in place. Hes just concerned the state isnt moving fast enough. We think that several months a several month timeline. Still gives the pandemic far too much time of need to grow. The state prison Officials Say serious and a highrisk violent offenders are not part of this 8,000 people theyre talking about they say only ones in that category who could be subject to Early Release or those with highrisk medical conditions and they will be looked at on a state by state basis or a case by case basis that is reporting live Dan Kerman Kron 4 news. Thank you dan now this comes as california now surpasses 300,000 total infections and more than 6800 deaths. Here in the bay area there are more than 31,000 cases and 600 and toward 32 people have died. San Mateo Alameda and solano counties have each reported new deaths today. And tonight were learning more about how quickly covid19 is spreading across california. The state recently released data concerning estimations for the level of coronavirus transmissions in every county as well as projections for future deaths and hospitalizations over the past 2 weeks the forecast for the spread of covid19 the bay area has actually grown more optimistic, so lets take a look at the numbers in most counties, the state is considering the spread of covid19 stable the outliers being contra costa and Solano County where the spread of the virus is increasing and marine county where the rate of transmission is projected to be on the downward trend. And Sonoma County is officially now on the states covid19 watch list. The county was notified today that of coronavirus data does not improve in the next 72 hours. Restrictions would be put in place as soon as monday july 13th Sonoma County joins 29 other counties, including moran and napa and being added to the states watch list. The countys rate of infection has rapidly increased since early june Outdoor Dining and take out but still be permitted. But bars clubs breweries and distilleries would all be required to stop indoor services. And despite the optimistic projections, San Francisco health Officials Say the city is not meeting its goal when it comes to slowing the number of new cases and hospitalizations in the city. So the Mayors Office said today the remaining activities and businesses that were previously scheduled to reopen either in june 29th, or july 13th will remain on pause and that includes Indoor Dining outdoor bars without food, indoor museums aquariums outdoor swimming pools and real estate open houses by appointment so here now is the data that the city is using to make this decision. This shows us now hospitalizations through july 8th. Officials say the goal is to keep the increase of hospitalizations below 10 as you can see here that number is at 22 . The other item that Health Officials are on high alert for us the average of new cases each day. And you can see there was a spike in new cases right at the end of june. The other key indicators include the rate of testing supply of personal protective equipment and contract tracing. Now the San Francisco zoo has just been declared an Outdoor Museum and because of that it will now be allowed to open its stores next week. Zoo members will be able to visit on monday and then everyone else can go by next wednesday. All guests need to make reservations online and purchase tickets and parking in advance. The zoo was originally planned to reopen last month after getting approval from city Health Officials but those plans changed after mayor london breed paused all reopenings because there was a spike in covid19 cases but when the doors open. There will be a lot of new safety precautions in place and weve shared all those details on our website kron 4 dot com. Lets go now to the south bay and there is a new more liberal health order that set to take effect next week in santa clara county. But theres a catch. The part of the new order that was to groups of people gathering indoors has now been rescinded kron fours rob fladeboe explains. Consistently weve said outdoors is better that indoors director of Environmental Health michael valley. Am friday confirming that the county has dropped plans to allow indoor gathering such as limited Church ServicesCommunity Groups or any non business gatherings. Which had been part of a new health order announced earlier this week worst delaying the indoor gathering components of what were really encouraging people to do this spend as much Time Outdoors as they can performing the activities that they like to do of course following all the appropriate social distancing protocols thursday ended part of the new directive would have allowed indoor gatherings of up to 20 people outdoor gatherings of up to 60 people will still be permitted. Its feared indoor gatherings will further contribute to the reason upward trend in Community Transmission of covid19 along with an uptick in hospitalizations and right now we have increasing case counts across the board is youve also seen throughout the nation and so we just want to be as protective as possible the new order which takes effect on monday allows other indoor activities like hair and nail salons gyms and other businesses to resume with restrictions. The big difference is that many businesses that will be launching on monday are up taking the appropriate social distancing protocol filling those out submitting them to the county. And following the rules that have been laid out for their business. In san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Well go down to the east bay with the new school year approaching many parents are left wondering how or even if their kids are going go back to the classroom and today, the west Contra Costa Unified School district announced that classes will only be online when classes resume. Earlier today on kron on we spoke with a member of the district to learn more about this plan for a phased reopening. Distance learning in the fall for all families all family should expect that and as were able get staff and make sure that the schools, the fiscal buildings are safe and environment we will start bring students back in small to get the support they to continue their learning in the fall. Okay, so marcus so. Those students identified as having the greatest needs they come back first and then its phased in. Thats thats the plan. Yes for instance students we can connect with their couldnt get could not to engage during the Distance Learning that took place in the they would be among some of the first students we try to bring back 4 in person supports. The district ultimately hopes all students will be able to return to campus at some point during the school year. That we just learned that the oakland Unified School District has announced that classes when they begin on august 10th, which is one month from now all students will start with Distance Learning from there students we brought back to campus in phases for in Person Instruction as safety allows the district says it plans on Distance Learning, lasting up to 4 weeks however families may choose to remain in full Distance Learning this is new information just coming into the newsroom. The meeting with the School District just ended and kron fours gayle ong is following the story for us tonight, well have much more of all these new details coming up tonight on kron 4 news at 8, 9. 10. Other news that were following right now. We have some disturbing new details on that shootout in Contra Costa County where 3 deputies were hit and the suspect was killed last night. This happened after an 11 hour standoff with the gunman and green acres lane in nightstand thats right off highway 4 and lone tree way. The suspect has now been identified as Eduardo Martinez from bay point. Deputies say before they got their martinez sexually assaulted his exgirlfriend and poured gasoline on her. We also know now that one of the deputies who was shot was hit in the chest but was saved by his bulletproof vest. The second deputy was hit. In the head was shotgun pellets and the 3rd deputy was shot in the arm. All of those deputies have since been released from the hospital. In the south bay Milpitas Police have released body camera video from an officer involved shooting that happened on june 21st i do want to warn you. Some people might find this video a little disturbing. Police say they were responding to an apartment complex after a 19 yearold reportedly stabbed his stepfather when a second officer arrived at the scene police say the 19 yearold man who was holding a large knife charged at the officer yelling kill me. It was then that the officer fired his weapon the suspect later died at the hospital, the stepfather was treated for stab wounds. Kron 4 is hosting a live town hall next week with Police Chiefs from across the bay area. We will discuss the changes. Police departments are making after a nationwide call for Police Reforms and how officers are working to regain the trust of their communities. You can join the conversation submit a video question for the Police Chiefs on our website kron 4 dot com. This town hall will air next wednesday july 15th. At 09 00pm. And coming up tonight here on kron 4 news at 6 not all airlines are requiring passengers to wear face coverings when theyre on board. And the ceo of Delta Airlines says its time for that to change. Plus one bay area man has survived his battle with covid19 after spending more than 100 days in the hospital fighting covid19 at 6. 30 how his family is celebrating this huge victory tonight. And one of the brightest stars in Major League Baseball is opting out of the season. Our kron fours the San Francisco giants roster will look a little bit different this season today buster posey announced that he is opting to sit out. Kron fours kate rooney joins us right details and kate it sounds like hes putting his family. First yes, just in pretty good reason for this right it and its not entirely unexpected because posey has missed several of the giants workouts in the last week while he was dealing with what the team called a peruonal issue. Now we know the nature of that issue posey will skip the twentytwenty season to protect the health of the twin daughters, he and his wife adopted earlier this week. Today posey got personal in a press conference explaining that he and wife kristen have been trying to adopt for a number of years and their new twin girls were born prematurely on the first day of giants training camp. Last week the girls will be spending some time in the new native neonatal intensive care unit, so together with his doctors posey has decided the risk of playing outweighs the reward. Just feel like in the current state and then we are right now and these babies being is as fragile as they are for the next, you know 4 months and minimal. This ultimately wasnt that difficult a decision decision for me from a baseball standpoint, it was a tough decision from a seemingly standpoint in your own life. Im making the decisions protect. Our children i think it it was relatively easy. Poseys probably the most prominent player so far to opt out this season as the 3 time world series champ 6 time allstar and former National League mvp now he batted a careerlow 2. 57 last season after returning from major hip surgery. But hed been tracked before covid canceled spring training earlier this year batting for 55. Now the giants havent decided who will start at catcher imposes absence, the organization said they dont want to rush their top prospect, joey bart, but its certain that posey skills on the field and leadership in the clubhouse will be missed in these next few months kron fours Maureen Kelly talked to fans who say well theyre disappointed that the star player wont be back behind the plate for the shortened season. They support his decision. More power to him. You know, i mean hes putting is his family in his loved ones first and you know in this day and age. And any gain age, i mean thats really what you need to do. Watsonville resident rob spore leader says he has family trying to make it up to oracle park 4 games at least once a month during the season. He says as much as hed like to watch buster play ball. He cannot argue with the stars concerns for the health of his newly adopted twin daughters who are born premature 16 game season and give other players an opportunity. Which will make sure the season even more interest and i that it happened in 60 games. What kind of care about these people as individuals and human beings, not just people that are out there to entertain us songwriter, a newspaper columnist noah griffin has sung the National Anthem from the Pitchers Mound at giants games. He says posey brings maturity and experience the clubhouse he expects that will continue from a distance the season, so you need older. To the older players. The younger players and these are the roads this is what you dont make this mistake over here. So youll still be that. I wrote play that role for the team behind the scenes is not be enough to play that role. Im sure that he will his team guy and certainly the last best are huge. Stephanie hibbert was a season Ticket Holder until she moved up to sacramento. She 2 respects poseys decision the wonders about the Ripple Effect could have not just on the giants. The sports im still that says it may not happen again. I mean i think everythings changing so rapidly that. Inflexible and adapted into each days news is kind of whats required out all the fans i spoke to say they look forward to seeing buster posey back in a giants uniform, the 20 21 season. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. Yeah, were looking forward to that too in the meantime Team President farhan zaidi and manager gabe kepler both expressed their full support for poses decision today. Now theyve got the unenviable task of figuring out his replacement justine. Lets take a live look outside right now as we talk about our 4 zone forecast, heres a look at downtown San Francisco looking towards the east bay, a hot weekend is ahead. So lets find out just how hot its going to get with our meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez was a pullman breeze so that we could crash this weekend. Yeah i know right i wish i knew someone unfortunately in the bay area dont really know a lot of people with pools. Even hotels for that matter but thats what we get we live in north cal, lets take a look at todays daytime highs though, near average along the coast upper 60s but about 5 to 10 degrees above normal away from the bay area coastline with oakland about 5 degrees above average warming up into the mid 70s today and widespread mid 90s for interior valleys and not just for the tribe valleys. But even those of you in santa rosa in the north lets take a live look outside from the east bay over berkeley tracking that increasing high cloud cover overhead with the marine layer returning mainly along the bay area coastline and east bay shoreline reducing visibility to at or below 0 sometimes during the overnight hours through your saturday morning so just keep that in mind but temperatures out there right now quite the spread in fact 50s for the coast 90s as you make your way inland. So nearly a 40 degree difference out there right now an 80s and 70s as you make your way inland as we begin to cool down for friday night but current wind speeds out there right now fortunately on the breezy side and it is going to continue to remain that way all weekend long even on sunday when we peak with this many heat wave. Thats currently underway mainly for inland valleys overnight lows tonight. Low 50s along the coast mid 50s as we make our way inland and were going to warm up into the 90s for most of our inland valleys and widespread triple digit heat expected for the 2nd half of your weekend. But tomorrows daytime highs very similar to today, 60s along the coast and widespread 70s for the east bay shoreline with 80s and 90s making our way inland. So were going to remain about 5 to 10 degrees above average and relative humidity is going to drop into the 20th percentile range by your saturday afternoon and cut that in half for most of our warmest inland valleys by sunday when we could reach that triple digit heat. But then some relief by early next week, but we wont cool down to near normal until around next thursday, justine back to you think of a breeze of the head of Delta Airlines is calling on the federal government to issue a mandate requiring travelers to wear face masks on passenger jets. Deltas policies have been among the strongest in the industry keeping all middle seats on planes empty and requiring that passengers wear face masks. It was certainly help and i do believe that would be a be a good action i i dont expect that to happen was so what federal government is on its left it up to each airline to make their own decisions. So masks are mandated on delta. Delta says it was consulted it has consulted with medical experts at the mayo clinic and Emory University in making its decision. He added that most delta customers have been respectful when asked to wear face covering. The cdc strongly urges that everyone c to reduce the spread of covid19. And how the covid19 pandemic has created a coin shortage in california costing some businesses thousands of dollars. And up next police in moraga are warning people to im honestly surprised that the coyote would come down here. But thats actually pretty scary i would be im very alarmed if she got bit by a coyote. Coyote sightings summer agha they come with the territory but coyote attacks on humans are rare. But thats what recently happened at a park a 2 yearold boy was bitten in the leg by what police and wildlife Officials Say was a coyote kron 4 sleep to call reports the town is now closing the park early because coyotes are more active at dusk. With temperatures rising and as cooped up families fed up with staying inside head outdoors parks are a popular destination but also come with some potential hazards. Im honestly surprised that a coyote would come down here, but that may have been the case thursday in moraga the Police Department says an animal reported to be a coyote bit a 2 yearold boy in his lower leg police say it happened in the parking lot near restrooms at marotta commons park they feel like the fact that covid is happening and theres been fewer people at the park. There are people everywhere the animals are starting to feel more comfortable coming in instead of just staying in the mountains where they normally are the California Department of fish and wildlife is investigating the incident the child was treated at a hospital and then released. Fish and wildlife says his injuries are non life threatening code is probably sick. They dont normally approach to unless they say you have something to. The small bar, its unclear what may have prompted the rare attack fish and wildlife says if it is determined the animal was in fact a coyote it was just the second coyote attack on a human this year reported in the bay area we just this area we dont stay like of on you know the bush is so rare we like to stay where everybody can see then if you encounter a coyote fish and wildlife says stand tall and shout aggressively if it approaches in moraga phillipe djegal all kron 4 names. Happening now Alameda Police are asking for our help in locating a missing man police say 21 yearold donald stand for was last seen on sunday night in the area around college of alameda, hes 5 foot 8 with brown hair and eyes. His last clothing that he was known is not known that he was known to be wearing is not known to his family, but its out of character for him to go for such an extended period of time without contacting anyone that he knows. So if youve seen donald please contact, the alameda Police Department. 6. 30 the cost of reopening amid the covid19 pandemic is becoming painfully clear as many states report record highs in cases hospitalizations and deaths. Plus the State Capitol has been shut down after multiple lawmakers have tested positive for covid19 even one Assembly Member had to go to the hospital and a bay area man is back home after spending more than 100 days in the hospital fighting covid19 hes sharing his story of survival wi 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