Have been reported across the country. And here at home that grim nationwide milestone comes as california statewide covid numbers continue to improve governor Gavin Newsome providing an update earlier today, he says the state has averaged about 3400 cases over a sevenday period, the latest numbers showing below that with just under 3300 cases reported yesterday the governor says on average they are conducting more than 100,000 tests a day. And with a number of testing going up the Positivity Rate is going down over the last 7 days even with the improving numbers, california still has a Positivity Rate of 2. 1 . The governor says the state is committed to increasing testing across california. We are of the firm opinion that that we are able to move forward to increase the availability and the timeliness of tests here in the state of california we will have more clarity and more insurance in our capacity to move more swiftly to that not only reopen different sectors of our economy more fully, but also reopen our in a more Sustainable Way as well. The governor says right now just shy of 70 of tests results are coming back within a 24 hour period with a substantial number coming back in 48 hours meanwhile for the more than 2 Million People out of work californians who have had to battle with the states antiquated system to get Unemployment Benefits there is some hopeful news tonight has really been a nightmare for a lot of people the governor confirming today that improvements are underway at the Employment Development department and the changes are designed to among other things. Read the backlog of applications. The downside the system will be available now for 2 weeks kron fours dan kerman is live. And the dea in San Francisco with details dan it cant get any worse. Thats what a lot of people have to apply for these benefits are saying and the governor says he knows theres a problem. He says its a 30 yearold system. The states across the country are having similar problems but california he says is aiming to fix it, especially with this backlog. Were going to get this right during an online News Conference monday governor newsome confirm changes are in the works at californias Employment Development department. A task force charged with reviewing the system found the edd has a backlog of nearly 600,000 californians whove applied for Unemployment Benefits more than 21 days ago, and yet their claims have not been processed. Theres also an estimated 1 million cases where individuals receive payments, but subsequently modified their claim and thus are awaiting resolution. The goal is selfevident to reduce that backlog. To do that the state will not accept any new applications for the next 2 weeks and during this socalled reset it will create a faster and better experience for those using the system. 40 of you i claimants were going into a manual process and by embracing this reset we are giving them a 90 chance Going Forward of having a much faster experience. This is about getting a check in their hand much faster all new applicants will have to wait 2 weeks to apply the governor says. This will not delay them in getting their check in terms of clearing up the backlog of existing u i applicants that will take some time. For the backlog that were experiencing right we predicts between now and the january will be completed. Now completed by the end of january that doesnt mean theyll hold backlog is going to be done on the end of january means that day by day by day they will be chipping away at that backlog here is the key not adding to it. The governor says hell hold his feet to the fire. He will be giving updates on just how well this reset and reconfiguration of the department goes live in San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Thanks dan happening tomorrow in the east bay, the Contra Costa County board of supervisors is expected to vote on whether to extend eviction protections for people struggling to pay rent because of the pandemic the countys current Eviction Moratorium is set to end september 30th. If supervisors vote to extend protections. It would be the 4th time they have done so since the pandemic started. Doctors are saying because of the pandemic this may be the most consequential year to get your flu shot thats because simultaneously being infected with covid19 and the flu without the flu vaccine could be deadly. Kron fours Haaziq Madyun has that story. Naco infection of flu and is concerning those in health care which is why were really emphasizing the need for. Flu vaccination because that is what we have now coming down with influenza in the midst of the covid19 pandemic could have dire consequences can be occur together. They certainly can occur together it can happen but Center Health Infectious Disease specialist doctor Anthony Kelly on says just how bad it will be for the person who comes down with both is yet to be seen we havent seen a case of flu and covid just yet but have seen many viruses that have occurred and on top of that they can end up with getting him back secondary bacterial infection which is. Really what were trying to avoid on top of the flu and covid infection. What i see are the patients that actually get influenza income into the intensive care unit. Doing very poorly Southern Health pulmonary Critical Care specialist doctor Vanessa Walker talks about the difference in patients suffering with the flu who have been vaccinated and those who have not so even if you do get the flu. With the vaccine that youre going to have a little bit better chance of not getting so severely sick and if you didnt get it all getting the flu vaccine at this time is imperative that lees reducing the duration of illness or the severity of illness will at least help us differentiate kluber says school didnt lose shots, i readily available check with your primary Health Care Provider or just walk into your neighborhood pharmacy. Zeke kron 4 news. Learning about a fire now on the peninsula that started less than an hour ago the Belmont Police department tweeted that there are evacuations issued for San Juan Canyon from east laurel creek road to simply on the boulevard. Theyre calling this the belmont canyon fire it started on al hombre boulevard 2900 block the Police Department tweeted it was a code red. Well keep you posted as we get more information but they they just said a little while ago they are slowing the progress and that the fires been quote consolidated so that should indicate that they are making some some Good Progress and working to contain this again well keep you posted. In the south bay an illegal dump site the size of a football field is being cleaned up in san jose where the action is part of a renewed effort to clean up what amounts to an explosion of illegal dump sites across the city for trumps lot about has more on that plan hes live in san jose rob latino. All right greg. Well, im here on a moderate road a little bit north of Bailey Avenue where crews have tackling this a illegal dump site here between the Union Pacific tracks in monterey road. Its a quarter of a mile long you may recall last week we told you that the city said that it had struck a deal with the various stakeholders it promised residents after many many complaints that it would get cleaned up by the end of the month will today they came out here and made good on that promise lets take a look. The city of san jose, the Union Pacific and open Space Authority are jointly cleaning up piles of trash construction waste. Furniture appliances and other garbage that was threatening to spill over into the roadway and Railroad Tracks long southbound moderate road. This and many other illegal dump sites around town are partly the result of covid cleaning says district 2 city councilman Sergio Jimenez folks that are maybe doing d i y work at their homes taken offense is. You know throwing away old couches. They saw this what it looked like effectively a dumping ground so people would come out and actually get rid of things and throw them out here on the side of the road 6 months ago, there was a small homeless camp here a few people dropped off food and blankets for the campers who were indeed trespassing. Then the donations of lumber concrete another construction debris started happening after dark. Salvaging batteries and other recyclables to help finance her move to another camp. It was me a couple yearold. They do show a they get back to you. The people just dont break this road wherever and then they take off and you cant you know anything about the time the number of homeless here have increased vehicles tires paint another talk 6 arrived. There was a fire neighbors demanded action now the city council will this week consider a tripling of the budget to tackle other dump sites around town and step up enforcement before those many small downsides turn into larger ones like this its happening all across the city and so. Our efforts really are how do we bring forward the resources so our teams at the city along with other folks in jurisdictions can team up together and really bring the property up resources to address this issue thats happening all over the city. And give you just an idea of some of the stuff theyre pulling out of this site below me just a number of a toxic material or Hazardous Materials are several gas cans here some propane canisters fired sting wishers. Fire couple of 5 gallon cans of something theres an acetylene torch over there there believed to be 200 of Illegal Dumping hot spots as the city is calling them all over town hopefully that 3 Million Dollars if approved would go a long way to getting rid of at least some of them. Live in south san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news all right rob, thank you for that report and coming up injuries plaguing the fortyniners many of their star players going down sports director jason dumas us well have the latest on the severity of the injuries next also the republican rush to name a replacement for Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg has been compared. To a speeding train the bay area congressman who is calling his gop colleagues ruthless plus it was a rough day on wall street, our financial expert rob black joins us with his take this to me feels like were retesting a bear market which would be normal and healthy. Our economy cant be that strong weve got roughly 10 unemployment. So this feels pretty normal. A little mass. Turned to republicans. Investigation for laundering money through criminal institution that of 2 trillion dollars. China its hosting to be a long haul it out. So that negovan is mounting. Were one back. Like going down would be the people who lost jobs and still have really been made whole not work or if you doubt how to extend Unemployment Insurance were more of a cake shaped. I hope mister kudlow is right but i think thats optimistic thinking and it may be partisan. Thank you to my foot. So lets talk about those who are worried about how to invest moving forward short term long term people who are in the market for a while and those who are going to need their money say in the next year. What do commending. Weve been through a coronavirus chicken flu, bird flow. Mad cow disease more one more work to push for one bush fort nuclear strikes nagasaki rational will get through this very confident that. I think now is the time just have a good list of stocks you should find one rebounds cation. Capitalism still alive and well well be live well and biden were under trump. Short term, but i think market got ahead of themselves this summer. I think we should be further down but im ok with it if youre in retirement thats a whole different conversation. But i feel were doing well and again were more positive news on vaccines treatments from being at all time highs are at alltime highs to 3 weeks but it does feel dramatic right now because you they are different died unfortunately little bit too early to not politicize or death and celebrate a life. Now its coms carrie control court on either side. Rob black crow force financial expert, good to see rob thanks for your insight tonight. Thanks rob. Other news now san jose and San Francisco saw the biggest jump in terms of home prices of any major u. S. Cities in August Zillow also saying the san jose metro area there the typical home value last month was more than one 0. 2 Million Dollars up 2 month over month. And a whopping 10 increase yearoveryear in the San Francisco metro market typical home value in august was just over 1. 1 million up almost a percentage point month over month and almost 3 Percentage Points up year over year. Meanwhile rental prices in the bay area continue to tumble with the typical one bedroom. Place in san jose dropping almost 4 from last year to now about 3200 a month. Big story as far as the 49 ers won their first game of the season sunday, but after the game, nobody was talking about the actual wind like a mash toward the talking points after the game. Half a dozen injuries and something really star sports director jason dumas joining us now to. Break it all down and touch on the raiders debut in jason. Yeah guys this is a classic case of winning the battle but likely losing the war they got the win they needed but the injuries could possibly derail a season with very high hopes as we all know it all started with this play right here Quinnen Williams falls on Jimmy Garoppolos right ankle he actually finished the half and played really well he went 14 for 16 131 yards and 2 touchdown passes. But the ankle got worse as the game went on in shanahan kept him in the locker room and the 2nd half he wasnt even on the bench later in the 1st quarter came nick bosa he likely tore his left acl will be gone for the season and 2 plays later fellow he lineman solomon thomas went down with a knee injury also looks like an acl Kyle Shanahan doesnt know for sure the severity of all of these injuries, but we do know. Nick bosa tore the acl and he will not play for the rest of the season. We do have a lot of good players t. Players of people know about who i think can still get better and how something theres a lot of people that people dont know about on this opens up opportunities for get better so yeah, you lose a great guy like that. Its tough. But look at our rooms and stuff and know that so that a lot of guys out there are no play good football and give us a chance to win every game that we show up for. And the new era for the Oakland Raiders officially begins today with the Oakland Raiders im sorry the Las Vegas Raiders thats pretty ironic. Given the story im reading right now they will open up their 2 billion dollars stadium on monday night football for the whole world to see too bad. No fans will be there but its been a few years in the making big game just kicked off we will have highlights. Later tonight and clearly got to still wear thing to say the las vegas but hey its happening in its kicking off right now on and well have all those highlights as the game progresses back to you. Still cant believe its real i thank you jason, it doesnt seem right does it know it got outside you can tell us see oaklond there and on the right is this is a live look from our camera on sutro tower a little hazy but pretty nice day in the bay and lets check in with our alltime raiders fan. Our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow has the first day of fall for i love he is in the air this the last full day of summer not a bad day how about that looking out toward the golden gate bridge. You got some blue skies out there little hazy in spots and were still seeing some of the smoke from that offshore wind over the weekend. The now. Begin to see more of a sea breeze kicking and that will be the case over the next few days well see more of that breeze developing out there looking from the Berkeley Hills you can see that haze out over the bay but mostly clear skies at this time, the winds have been kicking up a little stronger today, 20 Miles Per Hour into fairfield 23 at sfo 15 even in the san jose but everybody start to see more that westerly component to the wind is that offshore wind has moved out through here get replaced by that onshore breeze, another front is approaching the coastline. Look at that kind of a ragtag system not much energy with it. But again and weve got another one right behind that thats going to kind of ramp up the wind so tomorrow morning. Were waking up to a couple patches of fog early on 50s and 60s then mostly sunny by noon or in the 60s and the 70s by the afternoon should be a beautiful start to fall. Weve got some 70s 80s around most the bexar back to you thank you lauren still ahead a walnut creek family who lost their son in a Police Shooting now seeking to help others who are struggling with Mental Health hole was killed by Walnut Creek Police back in 2019 officers say that whole ran towards Officers Holding an eye or pry bar and would not respond when they told him to stop alls family says he posed no threat to the officers and suffered from Mental Health issues, something they say they had talked with the Oakland Police of with the walnut creek Police Department about before. Ill show them every day every like john versus saying it wasnt a criminal. It was beautiful person who. Who did the right things. But he was in a Mental Health crisis and a Mental Health crisis should be a death sentence and thats exactly what happened for miles. We have created a foundation and we create a foundation right after pretty much 3 months after miles was shot. Because we know that. We want to make change we want to protect families from this ever happening again. The city of walnut creek has budgeted 100,000 for Mental Health and crisis intervention training for the Police Department there. Up next the rush to replace Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, the bay area congressman calling the gop ruthless for moving so quickly. And a new film on netflix causing controversy and cancellations why critics are saying cue to use sexualizes young girls and should be removed. And more than 80 schools in San Francisco are waiting to hear back from the department of health about whether or not theyll be able to reopen inside well visit a Catholic School and see the
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