Million the death toll. More than 150,000 here in california Officials Say the first child has died from the coronavirus as the death toll in our state tops 9,000. Good evening, everybody, thank you for joining us tonight, im grant lotus california reporting 96 new deaths from covid today in more than 8,000 new cases while those numbers show a slight improvement in the states fight against the virus. There is still undoubtedly a long battle ahead the state department of Public Health says a teenager in the Central Valley has died from the coronavirus the child reportedly had other Underlying Health issues but no other details are being released tonight. This is the first time in california. That covid has claimed the life of a child. Across the country there are now more than 4 and a half million confirmed cases and more than 153,000 people have died. The cdc has upped its projection. Its now predicting the death toll, well top 230,000 by november. California, florida and texas now hav
Closed but in the stopped peopl. Places like lake merritt are to blame for the spike in covid cases and that has the city repeating a line weve heard time and time again, give the lake a break. We have more on what oakland is doing this weekend to stop the clusters. Reporter Health Officials here in oakland say even if youre socializing outside but not careful, you, too, could catch covid19. The county is seeing a surge in covid19 cases and Health Officials say social gatherings are to blame. Whether it is happening in backyards or in parks like lake merritt. Music, food and sun are the staples of any summer and you find it at oakland lake merritt in the middle of a pandemic. Today we watched as vendors set up tents along lake shore avenue to sell food, drinks, clothing and even jars of honey. The unregulated vendors are all illegal. It is crescendoing, it is not dropping. As the virus is worth, were getting more people at the lake. Reporter the city of oakland is once again urging peo
Right now on kpix5 and streaming on the bay area looking live from the tower camera at the bay bridge on this monday morning, good morning to you. It is monday, july 6. Im lynn keys. Cope hope you had a wonderful weekend. Lets get a check of the forecast with mary lee. Good morning. We are looking for changes today and the daytime highs about 5 to 10 degrees cooler compared to over the weekend. Here is a live look at a Treasure Island camera. Were in the 50s to low 60s at this hour and mainly clear skies heading through the afternoon looking at 87 in concord, 88 in fairfield, 80 in san jose and around the bay, 79 in oakland, 66 in San Francisco and cool along the coast in the low 60s this afternoon. With that stronger on shore flow, well cool it down and talk about what to expect for the rest of the week coming up. Im at the live news desk and i want to check in on this fire burning east of gilroy that started yesterday. This is the new time lapse video we got in from the National Weat
Over San Francisco wheretempera Governor Newsom instituted a and this unexpectedly slow similar mask requirement for stretch because of a crash south california youll recall just last week. Into the upper 50s and low 60s since moving to los angeles, 101 at san jose. Here. Then as you make your way we have chp and we have fire the former duke and duchess of inland, were talking about 90s departments there because of a sussex are trying to do crash blocking your slow lane today. Something good for the community once again another day with southbound, northbound is there. Those wide range in and theyre spending some of pr temperatures. Detracted by the activity and but we do have a cool down in the forecast for our valleys jammed from 680 up to oakland that have had a hot week. Road. Back to you. All right, thank you very more on that coming up in a few minutes. Much. Meghan markle spent tuesday with but as we check in with mike, 6 08 right now. Coming up next on today in the how is it lo
Lower 60s. Also, the drought update came out this morning. Usually during the summertime were not looking at a lot of changes here. Were still looking at extreme Drought Conditions for far he was in a confrontation with another employee last night just northern california. Here in the bay area we are in a before 10 00. Severe drought. This manna 34yearold man from now, when we talk about Drought Conditions, we look at the fact antioch was trying to steal that our vegetation is very dry, steaks from behind the butcher and we are also going to have shop. Another employee confronted the the potential of some more of that hot weather over the next man. They got into a fistfight. According to the employee i couple of days. You add in dry vegetation and a spoke with this morning, the shoplifter collapsed and stopped high wind and that means fire danger for the bay area. Breathing during that fight. As we go into the weekend, even hes under the impression it as our temperatures drop, were mig