Shut down now and start over. Help is on the way to stressed out workers on the front lines of this pandemic. Free Mental Health counseling available to them. In San Francisco, this school was vandalized overnight. Turning hate into an opportunity for unity. Referring today, warmer for the weekend. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Tonight the numbers tell the story of the coronavirus pandemic. Cases rising in 40 states. 17 ds by augus. Ing thereould in califni for the second day in a row, we reported a record daily number of deaths. Today it was 159, two more than yesterday with more than 8,000 deaths total. The state has more than 435,000 cases and a test positivity average of 7. 9 . Now some Health Experts and Decision Makers say the only way out of this is to shut down again and start over. Abc 7 News Reporter has the story. Reporter more than 150 Health Experts across the u. S. Say it is time to hit t
Say it is time to hit the reset button. They have signed an open letter to lawmakers. I believe everybody that signed that endorses it and sees this crisis for what it is, a crisis. Thats not gotten any better. Its only gotten worse. Reporter the message, shut it down and start over. The warning, if you dont take these actions, the consequences will be measured in widespread suffering and death. He says america struggle to contain the virus is evident on the world stage. We have seen many countries act swiftly and efficiently to quash the pandemic, and theyre reopening and theyre doing fine. We didnt. Reporter a proposal was introduced to require residents to once again shelter in place, doing so until the rate of positive tests over two weeks dips below 2 . Our objective is to kill this virus. A shelter in place is the medicine we need to take. Reporter san jose, named one of 12 cities being tracked by the feds as covid19 cases rise. County executive addressing what it would take to s
And necessary companion to keys and not its opposite and we must do all that we can to resist these deadly creep urgent measures must be taken by parliament and un bodies to present prevent further and deadly detail your is shown by the thing the protection of human rights and in global peace and security at keast our 102 countries have active stocks of military drones 35 of them post says the most deadliest of all trolls 20 armed nonstate actors or so of access to 2 armed drones drawn some becoming stealthy or speedier smaller more lethal and can. Buried today by teams located south of kilometers away and in my opinion and their opinion of all the experts i have consulted over the last 6 months these is bringing the world to a critical point in regulating the use of armed drones and the use of force to who arent drones theyre poorly farish and the expanding technology called powers are essentially unregulated and they have come to symbolize an increasing disregard by state and armed g
In san jose has apparently ended peacefully. Kron 4 Sarah Stinson live at the scene shes been there for hours she has the latest for us sara. Marty im live on center road where those swat teams were position for 7 hours in a standoff with several people who took over a home and held a family hostage can tell you that this ended peacefully. They fully you know theyre still on scene right now investigating, but it at least has ended with the standoff has ended as well take a look at video its dark in the video because thats how long this went on for we know for we know for sure that at least 3 people have been taken into custody at a home on the 14 4200 block of center road. Swat teams and police have been here since 1238 this morning, someone called 911 reporting several people broke into a home and assaulted a family then taking that family as hostages when the police arrived, and when they did arrive on scene they put up a perimeter around the entire area shutting intersections making
We are grateful to all of you for being here and for valuing the past, present and future of thoughtful reading and writing. The story that history can teach us a lot about how to live in the present and plan for the future. And perhaps no error in our history is more instructive to us right now than 1981 contagion ravage the world shuttering schools, closing businesses, and killing hundreds of thousands. Here to talk with us about what became as known as 102 years ago is the spanish flu is Kathryn Arnold who poured over years of eyewitness accounts from eyewitnesses in the early beginning at places like a military base in kansas to its number of prominent american writers like John Steinbeck and kathryn and portauprince she read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology shes the author of several books about the history of london and she was published by Simon Schuster in 2015 shes joining us today from the uk, welcome. Welcome thank you for being