Cases. Why we are now seeing nearly double the infections from our highest point back in april. Cancer fights. Word that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is undergoing treatment for what is her fifth bout with cancer in two decades. What shes saying aboutler future on the high court. And Capital Improvements as a nfl team searches for a new identity. We take you inside the rebranding process with a veteran in the field of sports rebranding. First, a look the todays eye opener, your world in 90 secon secon seconds. Be patient and wait, we do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now. Longtime congressman and civil rights icon john lewis has passed away. When people tell me not to change, i feel like saying come and walk in my shoes. I will show you. I will take you to those places. Reporter across the u. S. , covid cases continue to skyrocket. We feel cautiously optimistic. As bleak as it may sound right now that we are on the road to getting there under contro
Unified parcel tax or city college parcel tax. With the School District there is a Program Available for seniors to be exempted from paying that tax if you live in the property or if you own that property. It depends which ballot measure it is. We encourage seniors to reach out to make sure you apply if you are eligible. That can save you Something Like 2 to 300 annually if not more. That is meaningful for many individuals. I think that is it in terms of property taxes, how it would work in terms of covid19 and savings available. Individuals over 54 and people have asked if i am over 54 and want to keep the tax basis and consider moving out of San Francisco, what are the criteria . Shannon, this is a property tax question for me. I will share it quickly. This is a question about can i transfer protected base value to another county. There are two programs available. First is an intercounty program. People living in San Francisco. It is called prop 60. The way that would work is essenti
And 13 people have died in just the last week. The county was set to allow salons, barbershops, pools and Indoor Dining to take place in its next phase. In the south bay, some salon owners are demanding to know when Santa Clara County is planning to let them reopening. They say say their businesses are safer than a lot that are already open again. Chris nguyen has the story. At this point there is no reason for us to be closed. Reporter in san jose a small but united Group Running out of patience. Very frustrating because it is already at the end of june and weve been waiting since march 16th and still no date. Reporter employees from hair salons across Santa Clara County gathered outside the Public Health Department Monday afternoon expressing their frustration about not being allowed to reopen since the start of the covid19 pandemic. Were selfemployed and independent contractors and we work on what we built for ourselves and when that gets completely taken away, we were just left wit
Few 90s inland. Reggie . The coronavirus outbreak at san quentin is growing. More than 1,000 inmates and 100 Staff Members have tested positive. Of course, health in our various communities is something that abc7 is following closely as we look to build a better bay area. While this virus spreads within the prison. The outbreak is also concerning people who live in marin county because, of course, so many of the prison Staff Members also live there and shop there. Abc7 News Reporter Lauren Martinez is live in san quentin with more on this. Lauren . Reggie, the situation is getting so bad that there is a court order that all staff at california state prisons must be tested by next monday. Staff at san quentin must be tested by this thursday. Now, a federal court order sites staff as the main vector for spreading the virus in state prisons. A woman who wanted to only be identified as danny spoke to us by phone about her 29yearold son who is an inmate at san quentin and tested positive fo
Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right