The effect. The woman who shot video of the rope and posted it and her concerns on social media. I saw something swinging it caught my eye. It caught me off guard. Is this man told us the rope is part of a rigging used by him and his friends as a larger swing system and shared this video in action. Out of the dozens and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks use it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park. That we tried to create. He told us this small piece of rope in a tree is part of the same system. Still, for many people the image of anything that looks like a noose stirs up intense emotion. Even if it was supposed to be exercise rope. It is making us all unsafe. Its unfortunate that a genuine gesture of just wanted to create a good time, got misinterpreted into something heinous. Oakland police are investigating and assigned extra patrol to the lake. Adding we understand the historic and harmful
Employees. Abc7 News Reporter stephanie sierra is live breakin down the latest. As you just mentioned that figure, the governor mentioned 350,000 businesses across the state did receive a notice. The Public Health mandate must be enforced. How it will be enforced is still a question. What we do know is the state is not issuing a penalty for those who do not come my. Ahead of the Holiday Weekend, Governor News on the announced a new Public Awareness campaign hoping to encourage compliance. Focus on messages that we think hithome some criticize, its not enough to solve the problem. What do you suggest to those who say thats great but it is time to get tougher on imposing it. Explaining the state has threatened to pull support for counties. It is foggy what enforcement means. Were not going into everybodys backyard to enforce it. I encourage they will to do the right thing. Even Scientists Say encourage many isnt going to cut it. If we want to solve this, we need to enforce it. Dr. Wit wi
Unfortunately, over the last two or three weeks, things have gotten out of hand. I think we let our guard down. Reporter dr. Robert says the period after memorial day weekend was a turning point in that socalled california miracle. These are the charts that worry him. Abc7 news analyzed the numbers and found that six cabrera counties saw a spike in covid19 hospitalizations between may 22nd and june 29th. In the case of marin county, the hospitalization rate went from 1. 15 . In San Francisco, 4. 94 to 7 . If we continue to see some of the surges were seeing, there is no good reason to think we wont be packed with Covid Patients within two, three, four weeks. Reporter here are more troubling numbers. Total covid19 cases in the bay area on june 29th, almost 24,000. Thats a 74 increase from may 29th when we were at just over 13,000. At ucsf, there are currently 20 in patients. 11 are in icu. We are double where we were two or three weeks ago. Overnight, there were a bunch of people admitt
Abc 7 news anchor eric thomas tries out the one thing the barber could not do. The Santa Clara County Sheriffs Office right now is investigating threats again ofc face mounting pressure to relax restrictions related to covid19. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Well start off tonight with the pandemic pushback in san jose. Reporter as the architect of one of the first shelter in place orders in america, the Santa Clara County Health Officer has been criticized for taking a cautious approach to reopening the economy but now the Sheriffs Office is investigating a series of threats made against her in recent weeks. The county released a statement saying in part, we condemn any effort to harm or intimidate our public Health Officer, an individual who deserves our respect and appreciation for having the bravery to make the tough calls needed to protect the health and well being of all our residents including the most vulnerable members of our community. Cindy chavez president of th
Barbershops and hair salons to the regional variations starting today. Weve put those guidelines out. We put them up on our covid19. Va. Gov website, and those counties will begin to allow for those kinds of operations with meaningful modifications with the appropriate protective gear, particularly face covers that are so essential in that environment. Again, phase 4 is about concerts. Its about large festivals. Its about conventions. We are not there yet. Thats about fans in stadiums. We are not there yet. And the state will hold the line in terms of those larger venues. So thats still a ways down the road. Nail salons he says are still a work in progress. Shared th shared th shared th shared this antidote. A 6yearold, a 8yearold and a 10yearold barber that were not practicing physical distancing, that were considering the deep sanitation requirements, wearing face covers, nor was their subject. And i say subject because they had at me. It was a family effort to remove what was descri