News stations. Youre watching kron 4 news at 9. A covid19 outbreak at San Quentin State Prison in marine county. We have 4 more inmates who died over the weekend, including convicted killer. Johnny avila junior, thank you for joining us said 9 oclock everybody Catherine Heenan will be here momentarily im grant lotus the cases are climbing at San Quentin State Prison with 94 new cases in just the past 2 weeks and right now 537 people on the prison have the virus. More than 1500 of them have recovered 19 of the inmates have died 10 of them or have been on death row. All of this according to the states online tracker of prison populations. The virus moving fast within the walls of the prison. It is not isolated to just inside kron fours michelle kingston explains there are more than 250 confirmed covid cases among Staff Members. Were told theyre all given an n 95 mask as they enter the prison and theyre being tested every 2 weeks she has said that she and the in his route. Just woken up a
Im Catherine Heenan Vicki Liviakis has the night off. The video shared on social Media Thursday shows the woman calling the Asian American worker a derogatory term upsetting other customers kron fours dan thorn talked to the man who shot the video. He joins us live in los altos tonight with more dan. Well Catherine Grant this man tells me that he was angry by what he was seeing and what he was hearing. This woman say to this post office worker. The woman was already out of line for yelling at this woman, but then she used to racial slurs and he and other customers in the post office jump to this workers defense. And a now viral video a racist outburst is caught on camera in los altos its like the 30 year the woman in the video during her angry rant pearls and antiasian slur at a post Office Employee. Wall i didnt think it would escalate swear was about moving to time but then. She was just she started cursing i was like ok here we go its not acceptable huyler brumfield is the man heard
Zimbabwes president defends the crackdown on protests against his government will be live in her. And in sports the l. A. Lakers have secured top spot in the n. B. A. s western conference for the 1st time in a decade but bron james his Team Clinching the number one seed with the win also did you. See. We begin this news hour with the continuing battle against the coronavirus countries around the globe are grappling with the surgeon cases the u. S. Remains the worlds epi center with at least 155000 people dead and of a 4700000 people infected and despite the ads President Donald Trump is insisting that schools reopen a call he once again made on twitter on tuesday but that push has attracted a lot of criticism teachers marched through new york on monday they are angry at a plan for mayor bill de blasio to open schools even with restrictions. Well democratic president ial hopeful joe biden has tweeted attacking trumps handling of the pandemic he said that at the beginning of july donald
Thousands in bangladesh wait for help in rising flood waters. And. And logging on to learn if you can afford it but most nigerian children are missing out to schools stay closed. Im joining us roscoe with a real Sport Major League Baseball games are cancelled after several players test positive for corona virus but the leagues commissioner is confident the season will not have to be cancelled. But start this news in malaysia where the former Prime Minister najib razak has been found guilty on 7 corruption charges the verdict comes from the 1st of 5 trials linked to the one n. D. P. Scandal launched the state fund when he was Prime Minister in 2009 the case centered on the transfer of new. 10000000. 00 into his personal accounts evidence in court showed a trail of money that paid for Home Renovations donations to Political Parties and a luxury watch for his wife hes been convicted of abuse of power criminal breach of trust and Money Laundering hes accused of stealing nearly 1000000000.
Very important from volunteers start rolling up their sleeves to the United States 1st large scale vaccine trial. Also ahead 3000000000 animals killed or displaced scientists give an alarming reassessment of australias devastating bushfires. Im johnny gosch roscoe with the sports 500 and up england cricket the surf boards joins an elite club with his latest test against the west indies. We begin this news in malaysia with the former Prime Minister najib razak has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption he wont go straight to jail though and says hes appealing this verdict is from the 1st of 5 trials not she was facing linked to the one n. D. P. Scandal he launched this state fund when he was Prime Minister in 2009 we are always positive we believe. You know innocence we believe that. We have a strong case. But of course we have to convince the judges and we would do our best. Chef we would continue to lead a team and he is very determined. To get the