About 30 minutes ago with the phone fighter fire. They plan to tourists and Fire Departments and then eventually make their way to the San Francisco Coroners Office in the meantime, this is what we know right now. Of this. Jason cortez was at a training facility. Over on 19th and fulsome. All of a sudden there was some kind of accident he was rushed to the hospital where a spokesperson for the spokesperson for the Department Said that he died of his injuries. They are not elaborating right now on all that happened. Now protests have been with the Department Since 2007 he was a firefighter and paramedic he was stationed in the tenderloin Officials Say that he was a friend and all an advocate for Public Safety he has a husband he has 2 children. He was also the son of a retired San Francisco firefighter. Here is a Department Spokesperson with more. Very trying time as jason was well liked department. Jason is not only a. A fellow firefighter paramedics hes a friend. All out of kits publi
Back on march, 1620 20 the bay area was the first region in the country to issue a shelterinplace order in response to the covid19 pandemic. But this is written. A 100 years from now everybody is going to remember that day that the that the 6 perry counties plus the city of berkeley lock things down it stopped. Literally thousands of deaths, although california is trending in the right direction for slowing the spread of the coronavirus doctor George Rutherford professor of epidemiology at the university of california San Francisco says now is not the time to stop being vigilant. I mean you can catch yourself on the back a little bit. I mean we clearly did a great job in march and april and into may. Little away from us in june as you know he is referring to the pandemic surging in the wake of the memorial day weekend. He cautions the return of that behavior could prompt another surge over the next 6 months which has some major holidays. We have a very clear example of how we can mess
Reporter the county is performing contact tracing. The story i was looking for is that so far to our understanding, theres no hospitalizations, so far people are doing well. Reporter the past chiefment services, she said outbreaks in childcare facilities are expected. Its not surprising to me. Is likely people are coming in close contact, you younger age groups in general. Its hard for them to socially distance. Reporter she said children are successfully able to fight covid19, they are more likely to pass it on to others and be sidelined. They are doing okay with it but they can transmit it to grandma and grandpa. Reporter like Sonoma County, many are pushing for reopening schools. Reporter we have not hurt k 6 in person education. Reporter Sonoma County is in a purple tear for reopening, the lowest category. Heres a look at the numbia health department, 16,000 children under the age of five have current contracted the coronavirus. That is only 2. 2 of the total number of cases. That
Meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is here to time out when it could get smoky again in the bay area this weekend. Thanks for joining us at 5 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis we start tonight in the north bay where the Sonoma County Health Officer says there has been a widespread outbreak of the coronavirus at 13 preschool and Child Care Centers all told 62 people have been infected that includes 25 kids, 27 of their family members and 10 workers at the various preschools none has needed hospitalization and the affected preschools and Childcare Centers have not been named. Doctor sundaram massey says the source of at least 30 infections appears to be one child. The startling announcement comes as were also learning one of the largest districts in Sonoma County will be practicing distance learning. For the rest of the year. Santa rosa city schools voted unanimously to keep kids out of the classroom. Citing the county status in the most restrictive tier of the states reop
Found out and what happens now and it started with stay at home orders before developing into a masked man days and a lot more today marks 6 months in San Francisco shut down everything we are taking a look back at the covid timeline. Good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore, thank you for joining us tonight on kron 4 news at 8 and we begin tonight with the disturbing details of a doctor accused of doing something to his patient that is called of the trail while she was looking to get pregnant. All of our memory and all of the memories that we have yet to make our forever tainted. 40 years after becoming a mother a liver more woman is now suing her former fertility doctor for allegedly using his own words from to impregnate her not once but twice her attorneys says that she was quote medically rate and has filed a federal civil lawsuit against that doctor kron fours michelle kingston explains how the family made this discovery. It all started with a dna test kit. Im angry. Im hurt.