Class Vincent Polanco is mourning the death of his father, gilbert, a san quentin prison guard, first admitted to the hospital in july, after contracting the coronavirus. Then on life support. Sergeant Gilbert Polanco died at Kaiser Santa Teresa at 5 00 sunday morning. Covid19 is a real thing. It takes peoples lives away, and my dad is one of those people, and he did not need to go at the age he was at. Reporter at 55 years old, vincents father gilbert, a san jose native, had wanted to become a prison guard after passing san quentin on a ferry ride in middle school. And he saw one of the guards there as a kid, and he waved at my dad, he literally waved at my dad, and he, like, theres all of these kids, too, but my dad knew that this man waved at him. Reporter after serving in the army and national guard, he worked at san quentin for 30 years. A crisis created after the Corrections Department brought in untested inmates from a prison in chino, where there had been an outbreak. Visible s
Mornings. Fog will not be helping at all. It is disappearing rapidly but look at what is coming up from Southern California and Central California. Numerous lightning strikes showing up there. Some of this will work its way up towards santa clara valley, Santa Cruz Mountains over the course of the day. It will get warm to hot fast. There is no fog that will help us out here. 50s to 60s. Santa rosa made it to 49. Now 50. 64 already in livermore. There will be two moments of this moisture coming up. One will be tonight, tomorrow. Another one will be on sunday into monday. There is enough we have to mention for us temperatures slam dunk way above average for many here for the next four to five days. Over to sal now. See if there is anything new. Usual whether i usually by this time he focuses on the bridges. What would you like start with in. The bridges we do have the bridge clearing up from an earlier crash. I can show it to you now. It would be little better. You can still s little cro
Raoul is hi. Its been a long time. s been seven weeks since aaron decepi has seen his husband, raoul perra. Ive been carrying around his wedding ring, im going to give that back. Despite being healthy and young at 39, raoul was whisked into the icu for what became a hardfought battle with covid19. With pneumonia in both lungs, he would spend 30 days on a ventilator. The closer i get to this actually happening, the more real it becomes. I think that this whole experience has been so surreal, itsinee it. As cases continue to rise throhout theco t 200 deaths by the fall. Tonight we meet two fighters, neither elderly near infirmed, pushed to the brink by covid19. Their families forced to watch from afar. Its the longest five minutes ive ever had in my life. Reporter their journeys, reminders of how much we have to learn about this silent threat. And for some, leaving the hospital is just the beginning of a long road back. Whats keeping you up at night . The fear that my husband is not goin
But we need a way to stay cool the next several days. From noon tomorrow through 9 00 p. M. Sunday, an excessive heat watch. And here is a quick look at what to expect today and what you will notice the lack of clouds first of all from t at these temperatures, already 80 to 90 away from the coast at noon and mid to upper 80s to near 100 at 4 00 and still 70s and mainly 80s at 7 00. And temperatures wont cool off overnight. Ill explain why coming up. And developing news in berkeley, roads are still closed because of several water main breaks. Possible overpressurizing may have called 11 lines to street. Streets are still closed because of the damage. East bay has crews at several locations and has been making road repairs all night. So here is just a few of the trouble spots. There is closure at edward street and dwight way because of road damage. And in emeryville, several blocks of hollis street are shut down. And today a Court Hearing could lead to uber and lyft temporarily shutting
0 contained five another day of dangerous heat is on tap. Of flex alert is in effect. We are asked to conserve energy today and tomorrow. Mary has another check of the forecast in a couple of minutes. Back to fire watch, or keeping an eye on a wildfire burning in Santa Cruz County that has doubled in size. It broke out north of davenport and flames have gone through 120 acres and it is 20 contained. The river fire continues to burn in the hills of south of salina, at least six structures have been destroyed and 1500 others are being threatened. We are lucky that we have kept all the houses right here. My brother is across the canyon and it came through that brush yesterday. I have never seen anything like that. Cal fire says that area is not safe for people to come back to but they hope to have a timeline for returning in the next few hours. We have learned that hundreds of San Francisco School Bus Drivers are about to lose their jobs. Some after decades behind the wheel. The president