Assistance coming their way i saw the writing on the wall. And elsewhere master stylist carri bennet who own salons of santana rule and san jose decided not to open monday despite having spent 10,000 on air purifiers and other ppe products to keep her 45 employees and clients safe. But she too would like some answers it is confusing and frustrating because. As of right now we still dont know how long this shutdown goes on for is it going to be 5 months and when we finally do get to open. You know when are we going to get to reopen. I know that at the core of the decision is. Protecting the health and safety of our Community Many people are getting sick and dying. Thats important she and her staff raced to serve as many clients as possible before midnight lorre schuck one pointed out her petition to keep salons open now has some 40,000 signatures, wed really like to know. Where do we go from here how long we shut down is it 3 days as of 3 weeks. Can we do Outdoor Services committee not. We need some answers in los gatos rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Gyms in Santa Clara County are among the businesses forced to close again after just being allowed to reopen san joses 24 hour fitness in the east Ridge Shopping Center reopened yesterday for the first time in months. People going there for a workout today told us theyre disappointed to say the least. It sucks i mean i get it why theyre doing it, but it sucks they said theres a part of my life that i really love and to have it taken away his ex. Im disappointed, im upset. Yeah the ad its got to keep safe. Yeah get you to buy safe. Employers also voiced disappointment after working hard to meet the regulations to reopen. Now they have to close. We do have developing details tonight on a trial for a coronavirus vaccine. Researchers with the Biotech Company moderna say the phase one trials of their covid19 vaccine triggered an immune response and all the volunteers who received it and on top of that their levels of antibodies were similar to the patients who naturally recovered from covid19 the 45 volunteers had only mild side effects including fatigue chills and muscle pain. The next step for the vaccine is the phase 3 trial which gets under way later this month and then after that regulators will decide whether or not to approve it. As covid19 spreads in california both hospitalizations and icu admissions are up the latest numbers show that 6700 people have been hospitalized for the virus of those nearly 1900 or about 20 have been admitted to the icu while the governor hopes the rolling back of reopening combined with the greater emphasis on physical distancing and mask wearing will slow the spread. He says for now california continues to have an abundance of hospital and icu beds. If the search continues. Right now kron fours dan kerman takes a look at how hospitals are getting ready for that possible surge joins us live from ucf Medical Center in San Francisco and 15 are in the icu and 8 are on ventilators. Thats a curb or general hospitalizations are also increasing with just over a quarter of all i see you in acute care beds still available. John your health is also seeing an uptick in covid hospitalizations. We have to pass the irs for a solution units nick mica says medical director of Clinical Operations at john muir health, he says months ago the focus was on making sure there are enough icu beds. But he says with the uptick in Community Spread theyre now seeing a wider variety of covid19 patients, not all ill enough to be in the icu i dont think any of us are being lulled into a sense that we may not see a survey by so were were planning for that need. Although the day if the weather forcing is different them side or the other thing thats changed was the initial Decision Just to focus on covid19 patients. When we shut everything down surely dealing with emergencies there are people who are sitting at home and not seeking medical care who really needed medical touch mica says now theyre taking a more balanced approach so those with chest pains or not sitting at home. The biggest part now is figuring out how do we serve the needs of our community both the rest the translation. Covid its as low as the names of people are coming in with things also set up meeting of the lebanese broken bones things like that so out in the trauma center. Its its a balance of the coronavirus needs eminent writers. And as far as medical supplies are concerned gowns and john myhre says theyre in good health. They started stockpiling back in the ebola days theyre continuing to keep an eye on supplies now preparing for what could come in the fall or winter live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Thank you dan covid19 cases are rising in california and the demand for testing is as well. Capitol Bureau Reporter Ashley Zavala explains how state Health Leaders plan to expand and improve testing. California health and Human Services secretary doctor mark kelly announced the state is now averaging more than 105,000 covid19 tests today but still a lot more work to do testing in california is a vital piece of our response not only to focus on. Taking care of patients who. Present with symptoms in our care Delivery System but also to understand the patterns of transmission state Health Leaders tuesday rolled out new guidelines prioritizing who gets tested and when also guiding labs on which specimens to process first the priorities are split into tears with hospitalized covid19 symptom patients first and those with known exposure to the virus followed by those with covid symptoms or those working in congregate care facilities like hospitals, Nursing Homes and prisons then those who work in other Industries Like retail manufacturing Food Service Transportation and education to try to meet the high demand of the state is aiming to expand testing to the offices of Health Care Providers across california, this will allow vulnerable populations to be able to obtain appointments at the state Testing Facilities state leaders also announced new cochairs of the states covid19 Testing Task Force including Gilbert Chavez of the States Center for Infectious Diseases and the Senior Vice President of Kaiser Health Plan Foundation the shot us you care so a cornerstone of our work. Going forward must be ensuring that testing is available testing is affordable testing is equitable and as reliable for californians in sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. President trump blasted Presumptive Democratic president ial nominee, joe biden today it happened as the president also announced a new bill an executive order that hold china accountable for actions against hong kong kron fours terisa stasio has the latest. This law gives my administration powerful new tools to hold responsible. The individuals and the entities involved in extinguishing hong kongs freedom. President trump announcing a bill and executive order that he says will hold china accountable for actions against the people of hong kong. He also dove into taking a swing at china saying his administration places the blame on china for the coronavirus. And make no mistake we hold china fully responsible for concealing the virus. And unleashing in upon the world. You could have stopped it they should have stopped it. Would have been very easy to do at the source when it happened mister trump then took a swipe at Presumptive Democratic president ial candidate, joe biden. Calling his views. The radical left saying that mister biden as a politician help china over the years take advantage of the u. S. In contrast, joe bidens entire career has been a gift. To the Chinese Communist party and to the calamity. Of error is that theyve made they made so many errors and he didnt do any of the things but now he says hes going to be the president as president hes going to do all the things that he didnt do. The president s comments followed an appearance by mister biden who announced his Clean Energy Plan for the country in a speech today in delaware, calling it part of his platform to build back a better america. I am. Im here today. Talk about infrastructure in jobs, our Clean Energy Future but i have to start by speaking about what millions americans know when they wake up every morning with worry anxiety and fear. Were still a country in crisis and mister biden also took a jab at mister trump. Mister president please listen. To your Public Health experts. Instead of denigrating the. Do your job mister president. Because if we cant. But the Public Health crisis. We cant deal with the economic crisis. Theresa kron 4 news. Today, the trump administrate administration rescinded a rule that would have required International Students to leave the country if they did not attend at least one class in person this fall. Many schools have been conducting courses online because of the pandemic and the new directive would have put thousands of students at risk of being deported. 20 universities and 17 states including california have previously sued the Trump Administration over this new mandate. The unexpected decision was welcome news to students across the nation who had been on edge. Coming up tonight here on kron 4 news at 6 a popular sierra resort is considering changing its name. Why it wants to do that right now. Plus shootings are up more than 30 this year oakland, why Officials Say the spike is tied to the coronavirus. And next after 8 decades in the bay area a Family Restaurant is forced to shut down because of the pandemic and there are fears more closures well many people have such a misunderstanding as to how a reverse mortgage works. People think that the bank takes your home, but that is not true. Thats absolutely 100 wrong. The home is ours. We can sell it if we want to at any time. I like the flexibility of not having a payment, but i can make the payment if i want to. Youre responsible for keeping up your property taxes and youre responsible for paying your insurance on the property. For us, it was a security blanket. 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Now the door has a sign posted reading closed forever, and thats got one longtime patron bombed out you still want to keep a little bit of flavor the city and it seems to be disappearing one of the grandkids of the original owners says they are said to close the Family Restaurant down. But the pandemic makes it necessary, especially with the new health rules needed when Indoor Dining starts up again in San Francisco seems like there wont be much money he made it to percent capacity. Even more than that was just a safety. Our staff and our south so far theres no official tally of the number of local businesses in San Francisco closed by covid19. But the website eater sf as a running list of close to 40 bars and restaurants that have shuttered since march just in the city alone i spoke to a Hospitality Industry lawyer, who believes the next 3 to 4 months are going to be the most difficult time in terms of bar and restaurant survival as ppp loans and landlords patients if they had any to begin with run out and uncertainty over the industrys future in the time of coronavirus continues of the restaurant is congress right now that would be 120 billion dollars worth of funding for restaurants. So you know, yes, i think there are things that state and also the federal government could do to assist the Hospitality Industry. And i think that they have to it the industry employs over 500,000 people in california, one of the owners of louise tells me that says they announce their decision to close up forget theyve had over 700 messages of support on facebook. The says while he louise that a lot to his family he had no idea it meant so much to so many others. Maureen kelly kron 4 news. Bart is one of a dozen agencies calling on the federal government to include relief funding for Public Transit in its next suit stimulus package. Bart is currently experiencing an 89 drop in ridership amounting to a loss of 40 Million Dollars in monthly revenue and Officials Say the pandemic could cut that revenue by nearly a billion dollars over the next 3 years. Bart has already cut next years budget by 200 Million Dollars and says that future budgets will be dependent on federal funding. Starting tomorrow police in san mateo will resume enforcing parking rules in the city payments will now be required at all parking meters and downtown garages street cleaning enforcement also resumes on wednesday. Police are also reminding drivers about parking in areas with the residential parking permits they say make sure your permit is current or that you have a visitor tag if you park on the street for longer than the posted time limit. The sun valley mall in concord is now offering Curbside Service for customers, the mall must close again after the governors announcement monday which shut down indoor businesses across the state. The malls website explains the process. What stores are participating and then where you can pick up your items. The california dmv is giving drivers older than 70 years old, a one year extension if their licenses expiring those with a noncommercial license expiring between march and december of this year are eligible. The extension is being given to delay in person visits to dmv offices statewide which are usually required for that age group before this the dmv had issued 120 day extensions to senior drivers. We have more details on this on our website kron 4 dot com. Squaw valley ski resort right near lake tahoe may soon have a new name squab valley ceo says resort officials are meeting with shareholders and the local washing tribal leadership to get their input on a possible name change squab is a derogatory term for native american women. The tribe chairman says the name squab valley is a constant reminder of efforts to disparage native people. There is currently no timeline for when a new name would be announced. Lets take a live look outside right now as we talk about our 4 zone forecast here is the embarcadero in San Francisco. The faa has not reached this far into the city just yet. How much longer think well have to wait lawrence not long in fact a boy it is already started come on shore other parts of bexar laid the golden gate bridge, some of the towers. Disappearing in the fog right now that fog is going to surge. Well on shore tonight and moving to some of the valleys in the delta probably. Todays highs. Yeah, not bad right at the average in the San Francisco, 76 degrees and warm in oakland 83, a nice day just slightly above the average in san jose 87 degrees in little more that was one of the warmer spots, 86 in concord and 81 degrees in santa rosa saul, these temperatures right about the average for this time of year this pretty normal to low clouds and fog swirling along the coastline and here it comes it is going to race well on shore overnight tonight supported by pretty this is sea breeze out there right now south wind to 23 miles an hour into fairfield 21 southwest into the napa valley that is a cruelly when that is moving on shore right now were going to see that carry the fog low clouds well on shore tonight in fact youll see right here the computer model showing you the fog filling all the way and not just in the bay, but all the way in the delta overnight thats a significant push of some low clouds and fog the north facing a lot of clouds maybe the santa rosa, and pet loo and then as we head toward the middle of the day, the clouds begin to break up and there you go. A summer day in the bay area with the cooler temperatures out along the coastline. Lots of sunshine inside the bay in the valleys tomorrow morning we wake up some patchy fog early on temperatures going to be the 50s and the 60s by 08 00am by noon. Weve got some 50s 60s a little breezy along the coastline, very comfortable numbers in the 70s and then 80s in some of the valleys by the afternoon still finding some 80s some low 90s well inland. Some 60s along the coastline with the wind picking up the latter part of the day. Thank you lawrence now we now know the official cause of death for actress naya rivera an autopsy confirmed that the glee star died from an accidental drowning. The autopsy released today gave no indicator that drugs or alcohol played any role in her death. The Ventura County medical examiner said the body showed no signs of traumatic injury or disease. That may have contributed to the drowning. The 33 yearold was found in lake piru in Southern California on monday. 5 days after she disappeared while boating with her 4 yearold son. One of the hosts of the Popular Science show mythbusters has died. Grant and howard died suddenly from a brain aneurysm this week mythbusters was filmed here in the bay area for the discovery channel. The network released a statement reading in part we are heartbroken to hear the sad news about grant. He was an important part of our discovery family and a really wonderful man in the her was a trained electrical engineer in addition to his work on mythbusters he also hosted the white rabbit project for netflix and work for a long time at lucasfilm the her was 49 years old. Youre not invincible. This is not a joke. This is a deadly devastating disease that is affecting millions of people across the world. Still ahead tonight, a mothers warning after her son visit home and ends up getting coronavirus to his dad who is now fighting for his life. And find out what the 49 ers and the warriors teamed up for the warriors and the San Francisco fortyniners teamed up to help a south Bay Food Bank today, the teams donated 10,000 bags. To Second Harvest food bank in san jose. The bags include a weeks worth of groceries for a family of 4. The meals are part of both teams continued efforts in supporting their fans of local communities. Second harvest just seen a big increase in demand over the last few months with an average of 900 to 1200 people visiting every day. Just knowing what an issue Food Security is right was just such an motivator and to know that we have this opportunity with excess inventory to make a was a huge motivator and you know every one of those bags that were providing is money that if the bank doesnt have to spend on backs so it feels good. The fortyniners will also be donating all proceeds from Face Covering sails through the month of july to Second Harvest. Oakland City Council Members are considering an ordinance that would require some industry has to offer old employees their jobs back once they reopen before making any new hires this applies to restaurants stadium and travel industries, employers would not be required to hire back more workers than they actually need. But must offer laidoff workers their jobs based on seniority. Workers will then have 10 days to accept that offer. Coming up next covid cases continue to rise in the u. S. Find out which state has just hit capacity in icu beds and where it goes from here and the president says he wants to make dhaka a law. Why some lawmakers dont believe him and after the break shootings are up more than 30 this year in oakland, why Officials Say the sp we go now to the east bay where Oakland Police are seeing a troubling spike in crime assault with a firearm are up more than 30 this year. You can see here were Shotspotter Technology has pinpointed gunfire. This year the system has been activated more than 2600 times today kron fours Haaziq Madyun spoke with a pair of oakland city leaders who make a connection between the rise in gun violence and the coronavirus. A covid19 connection to the city of oakland experiencing a 34 increase in gun violence who says shooting some activities something nice though was still riley and oakland city councilmember noel says he sees a direct link to the rise in shootings in east oakland, and the state of california releasing inmates from jail due to covid19 release from prison. Coming to you and they dont have a job a place to live and so we turn to the next thing we used to do growing up even i might be a family to support his speech. It was ok to you know protect us open different ways. What is happening. You have a little bit of the perfect storm here most
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