Approve this unemployment payment. Because congress has the power of the purse, the unemployment payment would be 400 which is 200 less than what americans were getting before the july 31st deadline which might be short of what people really need right now and 100 of that payment states would be required to cough up. The request might be an unfair request considering that states have desperately needed funding as they prepare for School Reopenings and having to pay for the medical response to coronavirus among other things kron 4 political analyst michael yaki says the president s actions today were essentially a way to play on peoples emotions. I think that the American People are going to be asking themselves and this is a president who Still Believes that the coronavirus is just going to disappear magically. How sincere is e the fact that his chief of staff was to really represent him in the negotiations and apparently couldnt deliver on any of the items that the president said. Is
The pandemic it is really crippling San Franciscos Tourism Industry theres a new forecast from the San Francisco travel association. They expect to see a loss of nearly 11 billion dollars over the next 2 years. Kron fours Maureen Kelly has the story. San franciscos legendary palace hotel established in 1875. Now has its entrance blocked off by planters and plywood temporarily closed because of coronavirus along with 52 other hotels in the city. So San Franciscos most popular tourist destinations like chinatown nearly deserted with shops and restaurants dated shot. This is going to be a year unlike any that weve experienced a pretty much in the history of tourism in San Francisco of last year was our 10th year in a row a record breaking numbers and this year, its just all collapsed the president and ceo of San Francisco travel has the grim Economic Outlook in 2019 the city saw more than 26 million visitors this year its projected we will get less than 13 million est 53 drop and thats go
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
Skies as severe storms rolled through the bay area a lot of folks getting an Early Morning wakeup call. This is one of the many videos flooding our newsroom from you or kron 4 viewers, thank you so much for all of it. You can see more pictures and videos on our website thats kron 4 dot com if you have something called the shows hey guess what we want to see it as well all you have to do go to the website click on the the reported tab which is under the about us tab right there on our home screen. And we could be seeing more lightning strikes into tomorrow, the National Weather service is extending the red flag warning until monday morning at 11 00am and but to the bay area of course is under this warning with a red flag warning comes an increased risk of wildfires that could start near where that dry hits. And those lightning strikes the spark a number of fires across the area in Santa Clara County the marsh fire which is a total of 3 fires has burned more than 850 acres. Back away shu
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