Our state since the beginning of the pandemic. Thats 53 new deaths since yesterday. Today, though, California Health officials said that with modifications, nail salons will now be allowed to operate indoors regards of what county here in. We will be working with our counties and our local sector leaders around nail salons. Last month, hair salons and barbershops were given the approval to he reopennen indoors. Nail salons were not included, which outraged now is a long owners. This year this way for more businesses to reopen indoors. Maureen naylor live for us this afternoon with what can open up well, as always, depends on where you live. Alameda, riverside, san mateo, and solano counties all reaching the threshold. Reporter the state announced solano, alameda, and san mateo among five counties moving up a tier. In san mateo, that means church movie theaters can open indoors at 25 capacity. Indoor retail, dining, gyms and personal Care Services can also resume indoors with restrictions. San mateo countys manager saying we have precious few moments, but now business can get back to work. Counties can institute stricter guidelines than the state. So for now, gyms, Indoor Dining moveee theaters and playgrounds are among the sectors that remain closed. Santa clara is, infection and covid cases are going down there. Quickly things can change for the better and they can also change for the worst. Wednesday all schools can resume in Person Instruction in santa clara without a waiver, but most Public School districts have indicated they plan to continue with Distance Learning for now. If the numbers continue down this trend. Lower cases, lower infection rates, then it is possible for us to move into the next level, which is the orange level. San mateo, alameda, and solano now join santa clara, marin, san already in the red t only sonoma and contra costa counties remain in the most restrictive purple tier, but the last half hour, the Health Director for Contra Costa County said if the trends continue they expect to be moving into the red tier a week from today. All right, Maureen Naylor all righting live for us this afternoon. Thank you. As we mentioned, the number of deaths nationwide from the coronavirus has now topped 200,000. Thats more than 20 of the worlds covid19 deaths, and roughly equal to the population of little rock arkansas or salt lake city, utah, and more than 6. 8 million coronavirus cases here in the u. S. The nighted kingdom is imposing new coronavirus rules as new cases skyrocket in that country. New package of restrictions today, forcing bars clubs, and pubs to close at 10 00 p. M. The Prime Minister said covid 19 is likely to spread even faster as winter approaches. I wish i could reassure the house that the growing number of cases is near merely a function of more testing, but a rising proportion of the tests themselves are yielding a positive result. The new restrictions in the u. K. Come as italy add roughly 14 more coronavirus cases to its confirmed toll, Holding Steady in its daily increases. Another 14 people died in that country, bringing italys official death toll to more than 36,000, the high next europe after britain. And now the race for the house and the president ial electionle now six week away. Today National Voter registration day, aimed at making sure your vote counts on election day. In San Mateo County today, officials tested voting equipment ahead of the november 3rd election. The countys Registration Elections Division used some sample ballots to verify that votes are correctly tab lated and recorded. Meantime, the San Jose Sharks announcing today that the sap center in san jose will be used as an official dropoff location during the coming election. People can drop off their ballots there. And now we turn to the Supreme Court justice pick. Lauren blanchard said a key senator majority member has said he will vote for the president pick. Reporter senator mcconnell said the process is moving forward. When the nomination comes out of committee, then ill decide when and how to proceed. Reporter momentum building for a confirmation vote after utah senator mitt romney signaled tuesday he is on board with the Senate Moving Forward despite it being an election year. If a nominee actually reaches the floor, then i will vote based upon the qualifications of that nominee. Reporter democrats are accusing republicans of a double standard say Mitch Mcconnell justified blocking president obamas nominee in 2016 because it was an election year, yet republicans claim then it was different, because the house and senate were controlled by Different Party meanwhile, President Trump said he is narrowing his selection. I would say that im very close to making a decision in my own mind. Reporter fox confirming he met with judge Amy Comey Barrett monday, while other frontrunners are said to include judge lagoa from miami. Bead were saying that republicans should hold off until november. Were in the middle of an election, we should wait. Nesday and thursday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lye in repose at the Supreme Court. Friday she will lie in state at the u. S. Capitol. A scathing new report on university of california admissions system. A state auditor says that over the past six years, u. C. Admitted at least 64 students from families because of their wealthy connections. They say that campus staff designated 22 applicants as student athlete recruits because of donations or favors to well connected families. U. C. Berkeley admitted 42 based on their connections, not their qualifications. The chp asking for your help to solve a deadly shooting that happened along interstate 80. Coming up at 4 30 today, youll hear from grieving family members who are desperate for answers after a man was shot and killed while driving home from work. Plus dozens of major fires still burning around the state. Coming up, well talk live to cal fire about its plans to try and gain more control as hot temperatures are set to return to the forecast. Here at home, first day of fall, and hard to brian about the weather going on here. Good to moderate air quality and temperatures right about where they should be. A look at your Current Conditions and show you what you can expect for the rest of the week coming up. Puberty means personal space. So sports clothes sit around doing a little growing of their own. Ohhh. Ahhgh. So imagine how we cheered when we found tide pods sport. Finally something more powerful than the funk. Bye. I love you too he didnt say that. Tide sport removes even weekold sweat odor. If its got to be clean, its got to be tide. As we all know, its already been a very busy fire season, not just here in california, but firefighters are battling flames all across the west. Several of those western wildfires are recordbreakers. Dozens of wildfires scorching their way through dry land across the west. Thousands forced to evacuate. Some returned home to find nothing left. It was through here so fast. It was just unbelievable. When you see everybody else, my friends all losing some and i didnt lose anything, i said what the heck . Reporter fire of the averagest fires in california state history are burning. Dry vegetation fueling flare ups near mount wilson, endangering police, fire, tv, and radio transmission tires. That fire came over the hill so hard and fast that i turned around and i barely got my 8 dogs and my two parrots out, and the fire just you can see, everything is ash. 19,000 firefighters are spread across california. At least three have died. The latest, charles morton. A big bear hot shot taken at age 39, and the fire ignited by gender reveal party. Governor gavin newsom expects the number of damaged structures to rise. As people move back in, well determine the actual structure loss. Lets get an update with cal fires assistant deputy director. The bobcat fire that william was talking about has really taken off. What is making this fire so difficult for crews to get control of . Well, you add the fact that conditions are just so dry across california, especially down in los angeles county, and it just takes a little bit of wind. That wind then pushes the fires, and they grow incredibly rapidly. Now fortunate down in los angeles county, that fire is burning motherly away from some of the foothill communities along the 210 corridor, pasadena, for example, and burning further into the National Forest and up into the desert highlands. And so the fire, though, obviously just eating away at significant overgrown and dry vegetation, and really these weather conditions weve been experiencing across california that has been allow nothing just the bobcat fire, but so many others, even in northern california, to burn so rapidly. Yeah, that is good news there in southern california, daniel, though, that this fire has shifted directions, but is it still moving at a pretty significant pace . I mean, we were reporting today that that fire is now even bigger than the city of denver. Yeah, most of the growth of the bobcat fire reported by the Forest Service really occurred over the weekend, later part of last week. However, it is still continuing to grow. A number of our fires that were battling today with temperatures starting to heat back up, weve seen activity increase. The north complex in butte county in fire activity. In the forest and park area, also da despite were making good progress, you know, temperatures are still i should say weather conditions in total still working against us, even though its been a little cooler the last couple of weeks. Yeah, but as you mentioned, you know, weather conditions play such an Important Role here, daniel, and we are expected to get even hotter temperatures approaching the area this weekend. How will that help you in shifting, you know, your priorities and how you respond to these fires, given that hot temperatures are back in the forecast . Well, while the last week are so weve had more mild temperatures, which has really aided us in our efforts for our firefighters, good containment on a number of fires. The fires in the north bay and east bay, the complexes there, Holding Around 99 could be taken respond very close to full containment. But we and we could see some winds come this weekend. In cted a fire weather watch for this weekend for much of northern california, including the north bay mountains, the east bay hills and other parts of northern california, due to that combination, and so that could hamper our efforts on the exists fires, but it could also and will also increase the threat of a new fire sparking, and that new fire being able to burn very rapidly well be on high alert this weekend and will need the public to do their part in joining us to be fire safe. Daniel, before i let you go, its got to be so tough, whenever you are out there battling a number of major fires, and then you look at the forecast and see the conditions that are coming your way. How are the Crews Holding up, and managing all of this, knowing that are coming back. Well, you have to remember, weve been battling some of these fires for well over a month, and so for many of our firefighters, they have been assigned to fires, and we move them from different parts of the state, fire to fire, but a significant amount of firefighters are still committed to these fires, and we are just now getting into really the peak of fire season. Today is the start of fall. While today were seeing little bit cooler temperatures and more seasonable temperatures, we cant let the temperatures fool people. It is absolutely the time of year when we experience our largest or most damaging wildfires, and as weve been talking about for really the past month, with conditions already being so explosive, its not a good sign of whats to come, as we move into the month of october, when weve seen other major fires like the Oakland Hills fire back in 1991. This is just a final period where we need everybody to be extra cautious and extra safe. Yeah, we certainly do, and boy, daniel, no, it is not a good sign at all by what were seeing right now. Think you again for taking the time to talk to us and bringing us the latest information. Appreciate it. Thanks. Around the bay area this afternoon, as were talking about, first day of fall, and temperatures responding nicely. 60s at the coast. 80s inland, as we also heard just moments ago, a heatup is on the way in the extended forecast. A live look here at sfo, where we have a bit of an onshore breeze. You can see that push on the southern end of your screen there, kind of blowing around just a little bit. The onshore breeze helping to keep our air quality in good category. From the north bay, the central bay, and south bay this afternoon, good air quality reported. Temperatures a little bit cooler in some areas today. In the north bay, down by 5 degrees, novato. East bay, down by 8 in concord. Here is a look at the temperatures outside right now. 64 at half moon bay. Upper 60s to upper 70s around the bay. 72 in oakland. In the north bay, a warm 85 over santa rosa. The onshore breeze through fairfield is sustained at 20 miles per hour. Novato reporting 21. So that nice onshore breeze will continue at least for the next couple of days and continue to bring us the good to moderate air quality. Here is a view of whats happening out there. The ridge of High Pressure just parked off our coastline. Not really allowed to strength machine the coming days. It has to do with the systems that are moving through the pacific northwest. And by wednesday morning, maybe even squeezing out a little bit of drizzle. Here ttle bit of rain. It will keep our temperatures flight check. By the weekend, though, notice things start to change. That ridge begins to strengthen, and our storm track begins to move farther to the north. We heard daniel mention a fire weather watch expected for the weekend. Ill have details on that fire weather watch and your temperatures for the next few days into the weekend coming up in just a little bit. Thank you, rosemary. In just one day, crews collected 120,000 pounds of trash, including hundreds of tires and even abandoned cars. Thats just some of what was found at this illegal dump site in san jose. Up next on the 4 00, the citys plan to make sure this site stays clean once everything is picked up. Also coming up tonight right here on ktvu, dont manipulation our prime time lineup, as a brandnew season of cosmos possible world begins. The twohour premier is tonight, followed by the 10 00 and 11 00 news. Plan cleanup efforts continued today at an Illegal Dumping site. Its a big and expensive project to clean this area of south san jose, but its necessary. The city hopes once this area is cleaned, it will stay that way. Piled across monterey road in south san jose sits tens of thousands of pound of trash. Its an Illegal Dumping site thats been a problem in the city for a while, but now they are splitting the 300,000 cost to clean up the area. Step someone to clear the mess. Step two is to maintain it to avoid it getting this bad again. Were looking at maybe exat can curtail the dumping that goes in on the middle of the night, and putting up new signs. Reporter crews collected 120,000 pounds of crash, including 300 tires and 25 abandoned cars. They expect to clean is 600,000 pounds of garbage within the next 10 days. This is going to be one of my Top Priorities of really changing how we view and how we care for monterey road, because it is the gateway to the city of san jose. Reporter at meeting today, the San Jose City council will consider reallocating 3 million of federal funding to clean up trash across san jose. The money is expected to be available within the next few weeks. If the city staff are doing everything they can with the current funding that they have, and so we recognize that they need more resources to get more hands on deck to really address this problem efficiently. He had just finished his shift at tesla and was headed home when he was shot and killed while driving long interstate 80. Up next, a devastated family wants answers. Plus the ceos of Major Airlines say their deadline for another round of stimulus is coming up next week, and they say that if federal help doesnt come through, then theyll have no choice but to lay off tens of thousands of employees. The family of a tesla worker shot and killed while driving on freeway in Solano County is now speaking out. Henry lee joins us with more on the victim and why the chp is asking for the publics knelt the case. Reporter yeah, that tesla worker was just trying to get home, and instead he became the latest victim of a bay area shooting. Cameron simmons had just finished his first week as a tesla employee in fremont. He liked to see everybody happy, so he brought that in every room he entered. Reporter but tragedy struck as he drove home to west sacramento. Someone opened fire as he was driving his preliminary it voyager van. He lapsed into a lane on the freeway. Reporter the chp is investigating but has not released the name of a shooter or suspect vehicle. A motive is also unknown, adding to the familys grief. Not knowing this piece to this puzzle is agony. Reporter his family is also heartbroken that hell never see the life he helped create with his girlfriend. Expecting twins in november. This would be the first set of children for cameron, a boy and a girl. Its devastating. Theyll never know a wonderful father. Reporter Sheldon Simmons is devastated by the loss of a son and searching forrance herself in the latest deadly shooting a on bay area freeway. He was targeted by somebodies that watt just doing some senseless shooting, and he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Police say any tip no matter how small could lead to a break in the case, so they are asking anyone with any information to step forward. Back now the coronavirus. The pressure is mounting for lawmakers on capitol hill to resume stimulus talks. United airlines and its union are urging congress and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin the bargaining table. Without additional funding, united said 16,000 employees are in danger of losing their jobs next month. Earn airlines said it would have to lay off 20,000 employees and cut services significantly. The own just really on speaker pelosi. We encourage here to spend one off bills, perhaps airline funding or other elements we could work through the process to get to the american people. Now with the two sides far apart, theres no idea when a deal might be reached. The white house and Congress Also working to fund the government to try to keep it from shutting down in 8 days. Well, as we mentioned earlier in the 200,000 coronavirus related deaths here in the u. S. Thatsmore than any other nation in the world. And with no end in sight to this pandemic, the Trump Administration is promising that a vaccine is on the way. Reporter its a grim milestone nobody wanted to see. More than 200,000 coronavirus deaths in the u. S. , and the outbreak is still spreading. The infection rate is down, but deaths are up, about 770 everywhere day over the past week. President trump still insisting deaths and infections will fall dramatically when a vaccine vaccine is approved which he said could happen as early as november. Three vaccines are in the final stage of clinical trials. We are mass producing them in advance so they can be delivered immediately upon arrival. Reporter but contain system still a major issue, with the cdc under heavy criticism for removing an advisory that warned covid19 is error, and can be spread through tiny droplets that linker in the air for hours. The agency said it was a draft published by mistake, but statements the president is mixing politics with science. Great scientists there demoralized by the political overturning of recommendations to save lives. Reporter some models are predicting the number of deaths could double by the end of the year as winter approaches, and more schools and colleges reopen. In new york, the countrys Largest School district, welcomed back some students on monday, with most parents and teachers saying they trust the safety protocols. We thought it would be best for him to go back to school and socialize with other kids. This is important for the children and the city, so thats why were here. Reporter the city advised against doortodoor trickor treating this halloween to reduce the risk of infection, as well. Its california firefighters appreciation month. Up next, were going to chat with the president of the oakland Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation to learn how they are trying to help bring awareness to higher than average rates of cancer in the fire service. Good air quality and seasonal temperatures. I expect a near repeat for tomorrow. We do have a big heatium coming our way in the extended forecast. Details after the break. In just a few months, weve learned a lot more about the covid19 virus. Its real. And its dangerous. So, on behalf of all of us working on the front lines, please take it seriously. And while we dont yet have a cure or a vaccine, we do know how to keep you and your loved ones safe. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Stay six feet apart. Do your best to stay out of crowded spaces. And get a flu shot, its even more important this year. We can do this. If we do it together. So are we. Prudential helps 1 in 7 americans with their financial needs. Thats over 25 Million People. With over 90 years of investment experience, our thousands of Financial Professionals can help with secure video chat or on the phone. Go to prudential. Com or talk to an advisor. Every tuesday here at ktvu fox 2, were continuing our giving drive to help bay area organizations who work hard to help others. And since september is california firefighters appreciation month, well, we would like to highlight the efforts of the oakland Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation. Joining us now is president and cofounder ryan men in aky. Thank you so much for being here. I know that cancer is a real concern for firefighters. Talk about the mission of your foundation. Hi, heather, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. The mission of our foundation, were in our third year as a nonprofit foundation. Myself and a partner started in the oakland fire department. We are wanting to raise awareness for all of firefighters, both current and retired, but to have a new way to pro moment early screening. Firefighters have a much higher risk than the general public and rarer forms and younger ages, because of the chemicals we are exposed to in firefighters. So we want to raise awareness, education, and early defense and or screening on an annual basis in the oakland fire department. What are the cancer rates right now, and are you seeing those numbers increase . Well, its always been very difficult to give an exact percentage of cancer rates, but firefighters are generally 10 to 20 higher than the general public, and now because of all of the wildland fires in the last three to four years, seems like they have increased much more. Our rates of exposure are increasing even more because of the amount of time spent on wildfire lines, a couple of weeks at a time, and if you can imagine on a normal structure fire, a normal environment, a city environment, you go to home or building fires on a regular basis, and youre wearing breathing protection, and youre still exposed to high levels. However, in wildland situations, youre exposed to potentially hundreds of home that have burned in a two, three, fourweek period, including dangerous and toxic materials that increase your exposure rates tremendously. Yeah, wildland fires a completely different situation. Ryan, when you take about your mission, what is it that you need right now, what is it that you needs the most to help you further that mission . Well, were always trying to stay on the cutting edge of new technology that comes out, and it seems as if there are things very close in the future that will be developed from science testing for early detection. However, were always looking for fundraising. We have wonderful support from our department and from our union. However, we are a nonprofit, so 100 having our proceeds come from donors. So whether it be big or small, personal or corporations, we need anything that we can get, because were constantly looking for new screening techniques, potential gear, masks, things that we can possibly provide for our firefighters. Not only testingwise, but things to help prevent us in the future from contracting cancer. So, ryan, youre message to people at home who might be watching this right now talk a little bit about what this used for, and just how important it is. Yeah, so for us its very important. This is an ongoing thing. This will not just be this year or the next couple of months. The goal of this is to not only annually what we have been doing through the last three years and some s bladder and colon cancer screening, but were also look fork new blood tests that are still close in the future are to developed and fda approved, approve so the many coming in from donees is extremely important in an ongoing basis. We are looking at increasing ultrasound techniques and firefighters, and at us have younger ages and rarer forms of cancers aside from the typical cancers we see in the public, because of the rare chemicals were exposed to on a regular basis during firefighters and overhaul procedures. So everything becomes important for us to have the ability to seek out new prevention measures and or screening techniques once they are developed. Yeah, so very important. Really appreciate thard work of you and all of the others in the fire department. Thank you for coming up on. If you would like to contribute to our give take drive to support the oakland Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation, just go to our website, ktvu. Com givingday. A new sign has gone up in front of an east bay fire station say thank you to the First Responders who work. There in this sign was put up earlier this morning in castro valley. The sign makers say they wanted to show appreciation gratitude for the work there with all of recent bay area wildfires. Ive seen our ouders have really come together, and also our community, and i do feel like because of covid, too, we have a lot more of a local movement, support for our law enforcement, our First Responders, and i wanted to do something just to thank them. Its simple, but i wanted to thank them for everything that theyve done. The firefighters at station 26 say they are extremely grateful for the appreciation from the community. And you can take a photo of your own sign, and then you can upload it to help us honor First Responders all this month. You do that by scanning the qr code on your screen right now, or you can head to our website, ktvu. Com signsof ktvu. Com signsofsupport. Outside our doors this afternoon, enjoy be weather for the first day of fall. Temperatures a little bit cooler in some spots. We have some good air quality out there. Giving you a look here at sfo, where weve got a little bit of cloud cover there on the back side, but mostly blue skies and temperatures feeling quite nice in most areas. Right now 65 degrees in san francisco. Low 70s in oakland. Lowtomid 80s for our inland areas. 84 in livermore. 85 over areas of santa rosa reported. Going back to the pacific satellite view, you can see we have High Pressure off our coastline, but the dominant weather feature is to the north of us. Were continuing to get that good air quality brought on by the onshore breeze, and its helping to keep our teams right about where they should be. Going tuesday night into wednesday, that onshore breeze tends to keep the smoke away. You can see how the smoke is pushed to the east and the northeast. That is going to remain in place for at least the next few days. Then we begin to see changes by the weekend. Air quality expected for tomorrow to remain good. Most areas will be below that 50 index mark there. So a pleasant pattern in place for the first few days of fall, and then as we get into the first weekend of fall, things really start to change. Not only do our temperatures soar, but heightened fire danger expected to return to the bay area with a bit of an offshore breeze. So very dry and hot in time for the weekend. A fire weather watch right now in place for our north bay hills, east bay hills, and our inland east bay for very dry, gusty conditions. Brute now the time frame is saturday morning to monday morning, as we get closer, well continue to finetune this. Tomorrow morning, we start out with partly cloudy sky was patchy fog. Temperatures in the low 50s low 60s. 51 to start your morning in santa rosa. And for the inner heat bay, 64 expected over antioch. Afternoon highs for tomorrow within a few degrees of average. 70 in san francisco. Mid70s in oakland. Upper 70s in san jose. Hopefully youre enjoying the weather out there. Shear better look at some of those numbers. 66 for pass if a tomorrow. 79 near redwood city and for the energy east bay, 86 expected in concord. The extend folk shows you changes start friday. We notice just a minor bump in the numbers, but by the weekend, a big jump on saturday. Sunday looks like it will be the hottest day. Mid70 those upper 70s for our coastline. Upper 80s to near 90 degrees for our inland area also round the bay, and far inland will go midtoupper 90s on sunday, again with the fire weather watch in play for parts of the bay area. Back to you. Thank you, rosemary. Michelob ultrais offering adventure lovers the opportunity of a lifetime. The beer maker is looking for a ceo to hire. That would be a chief exploration officer. This person would tour the country for six months, visiting National Parks and capturing nature, all while representing michelob up extra gold. Ultragold. They also get to bring friend along for the ride. Sounds like fun. Californias deadliest spring in decades . Well, that is the claim from a recent study that tried to figure out just how many additional deaths the state had during the first few month of the covid19 outbreak. Were going to talk with a doctor about the deaths and the impact on certain populations. And coming up tonight at 5 00, see how social media is doing its part to get people to cast ballots on this National Voter registration day. California just went true its deadliest spring in years. The report found 125,000 californians died between march and july of this year. That number was up 13 from the average number of deaths over that same fivemonth period during the previous three years. The study found in excess of 14,200 deaths, with just over 9,000 have officially been attributed to covid19, leaving about 5,000 other deaths unaccounted for. For more on this, were joined by a bay area internal medicine specialist. Good to have you on, doctor. Tell us how we might be able to explain these excess deaths, and hough many of them do you think ulbe linked to covid 19 . Well, this is a very interesting study that recently was publish expected how do you explain this well, we had a massive shortage of testing and didnt have a Clear Strategy on when to administer these tests, unfortunately. We also saw there was a big inadequacy of access to healthcare, and also Healthcare Providers for lowincome communities. Yeah, there was, you know, obviously many of these excess deaths were concentrate aid month communities of color, the africanamerican community, asian americans, and latinos hit especially hard. Why do you think these particular populations were affected so much more . Was it a lack of access to care, or were some of these patients maybe less likely to be included in the cases and covid deaths . Thats very good insight from your part, alexander. Historically, their Health Practices have not been as robust. Secondly black and latinos are dispoe portion atly affected by underlying conditions, and puts them at a greater risk of complication from covid. Reporter when clinics shut down, they lost that monitoring possibility, and so thats probably something that also contributed to these numbers. All right. So broadly speaking, what is the takeaway from a study like this . How do you use this information if youre in the Public Health world to try to shift the response moving forward to the coronavirus . Well, we have to Pay Attention to these numbers, because it exposes areas of improvement in our healthcare system, and also exposes shortcomings that we have. So we need to because every sin equally as important and valuable, and as we see disproportionate populations being affected web need to make sure that i have all of the resources to effectively take care of their health and have access to it. Its very important. As you know, well know, doctor, you know, today we hit this milestone here in the u. S. With 200,000 deaths recorded from the coronavirus here. If you sort of take this study from Kaiser Health thats done in california and ex. A late that out across the country that makes you think that in all likelihood, there are a lot more people who have died from coronavirus than we know about. Unfortunately thats very true, alexander, and were going to find out more and more as we get farther and farther apart, you know, from this virus at some point. But thats, you know, its something, unfortunately, that is something that we expect, just because of what we just talked about, the access to healthcare, and we just need to work on it, and work on it very aggressively. My last question, doctor, is that in these patients who may have died from complications of covid19 at the time, but maybe they werent tested, or they werent officially, you know, part of the covid19 counts, theres no way to go back and try to determine if somebodys death was, in fact, linked to coronavirus. Right. Its very hard to tell, alexander, if they didnt seek help initially, theres way we can include them in the tally. All right. We have to leave it right there. The discussion is a very important one, as we hit this grim milestone. Appreciate your time and insight, doctor, thank you for coming on. Thanks, alexander. Beta makes landfall with Tropical Storm winds, and heavy rain. We have the latest coming up from texas. The race is on to try to rescue hundreds of whales in tasmania. More than 250 are stranded there on sandbars. A team of marine biologists is in a race against time to try to save as many whales as possible, but it is very complicated and is expected to take several days. Now first, rescuers will try to refloat some of the whales to find out how they behave when they are float big themselves once again. If that doesnt work, the team will have to try to figure out a different strategy. Triage is going to be quite important here. We have animals spread over a large area in a really challenging location. So were going to basically take the animals with the best chance to start with, and the ones that were able to deal with. Its unclear exactly what drew the animals to shore, but its not an uncommon event. Pilot whales are very social creatures, so when one of them strays off course, the whole group often follows. Heavy rains are flooding parts of the texas coast right now as Tropical Storm beta makes landfall. That area recovering from a busy hurricane season. Case Casey Stegall with more now from galveston. Reporter beta drenches the texas coast, packing winds of 40 miles per hour. Some cars were submerged, some roads made impassable. This side, and, of f a hill course, its flooded into our rv park over there. Reporter beta made landfall late monday night as a Tropical Storm and moved slowly at just 3 miles per hour, allowing for heavy rain to fall along the upper texas coast. Nearly 11 Million People were under flash flood watches ahead of betas arrival, and parts of galveston have already received up to a foot of rain. A Tropical Storm is just that, but stilt has dangerous conditions and you never know when thing cans change. Reporter beta is expected to turn right and head northeast to louisiana by the middle of the week. Parts of arkansas and mississippi could see flash flooding as the storm moves further inland. Many of these areas are now facing additional cleanup, as they are still in recovery from a busy hurricane season. Theres no way that we could clean up all of the debris left over from hurricane laura in less than 30 days. Its just not humanly possible. Reporter perez the 23rd named storm so far this year, and there are still two months left in this very active hurricane season. Thats the latest from galveston, texas, Casey Stegall, fox news. Moving in the right direction. More bay area counties today are placed into the states less restrictive tier on the coronavirus monitoring system. But that doesnt necessarily mean more reopenings. Good evening, everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. Three bay area counties moved from the purple to the red tier today. Maureen naylor joins us now with more. Maureen . Well, julie and frank, todays announcement means the majority of the bay area is now in the less restrictive red tier. However, when you look at what is reopening, that can be confusing, because its still on a county by county basis. Alameda, river errside, san mateo, solano counties, all reaching the threshold. Reporter five counties were moved up in the states fourtier system. In San Mateo County, that means churches and movie theaters 25 indoor retail and dining, gyms and personal Care Services, can also resume indoors with restrictions. San mateo countys manager saying we have precious few moments to celebrate if these unprecedented times, but this is something we should all be happy about now that so many of our businesses can reopen, and so many of you can get back to work. However, in alameda county, the shift from purple to red tier is a different story. The Public Health department announced at this time there is no change to permanent or prohibited activities in alameda county. Counties can institute stricter guidelines than the state. So for now, gyms, Indoor Dining movie theaters and playgrounds are among the sectors that remain closed. Santa clara county is reaching the twoweek thresh told me the red tier, where health