United states have broken totals and as far as cases or deaths in this past week in florida its governor rick des santa is a heavy strong as strong supporter and he has been praised by the president even now for his response to the pandemic florida was one of the 1st states to reopen and now critics are seeing whats happening with these numbers resurging and saying that that move was prioritizing the economy over peoples lives and this similar story repeated across the country much of the south now including the state of texas where along its border with mexico were seeing dire situation with hospitals begging for more supplies the military responding there with their resources and refrigerated morgues parked behind those hospitals the same scenes we have seen in new york not so long ago unfortunately repeated now in new hot spots across the u. S. The u. K. Is reimposing a 14 day quarantine on travelers returning from spain infections there have tripled in the past 2 reeks with emergin
Attorney general defends the white houses heavy handed response to months of anti racism protests plus. Im way in bangkok where i will tell you about the link between the Energy Drink Company red ball and the death of a policeman and why the attorney general in chief of police had been summoned to parliament. Welcome to the program the battle to contain the coronavirus pandemic is putting pressure on nations as they seek to find a balance between Public Health and saving a colonies after months of lockdown in chile the country has begun lifting restrictions in parts of the capital but some medical experts say the government is not following recommendations from the World Health Organization or latin america editor Lucien Newman has more. Free at last from monday to friday residents of 7 affluent neighborhoods are finally free to leave their homes to take their children out and to get exercise and nobody is happier than the elderly after 4 months they are now allowed out for an hour 3 t
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
Transparent. An intentional way including stop. Students community and board and put the Districts Police department is separate from opd according to the district the unit consists of more than 100 sworn personnel in school site officers who oversee the schools and neighborhoods across the city of oakland in the wake of the killing of george floyd districts across the country are calling for Police Free Schools wednesday afternoon activists, students and parents held a press conference calling for change we are clear action. You know the point ust board of educators only introduced the legislation in their virtual noodle this is a way to re imagine. How we educate children without harming them with Constant Contact with police and this isnt to say that our Police Officers and usc are bad people. So the board of educators daybell vote on this new legislation on june 24th on the other hand, the of the labor at 4 o ust Police Department made a Public Comment in tonights meeting. Telling