Right think of they were smart enough to close the perimeters two parked cars and just limit the areas of which solicitors can sell their wares. Reporter embarcadero and lakeshore the intersection of crowd control and virus control. The city ambassadors personally addressing safety concerns. We have free masks available through the city of oakland. Were out here giving anybody masks, making sure they are social distancing, everything, staying healthy. Reporter the citys name for the strategy is give the lake a break, and it will continue for the foreseeable future. I think everyone in oakland wants everyone to be able to enjoy the lake, enjoy the beautiful weather, and hopefully not get sick in the process. Reporter in oakland, wilson walker, kpix 5. Lets take a live look at outside. Beautiful day across the area, with some areas hitting triple digits. All those pretty pictures some oakland today. Oakland kind of got off the hook as for the heat with concern. Look at the map over my sh
Crisis, marin county is now asking Governor Newsom to put an Incident Commander in charge. We need to have someone thats able to make good decisions to protect the health and safety of the prison population and make sure there isnt a capacity issue in the local hospitals. Were working, you know, actively to take a regional approach to this. You know, this is a State Facility that happens to be in one county. Reporter the county Health Officer says everyone understands that marin needs help, so the state is drawing up a plan on how to spread the very sick to hospitals around the bay area. So theres an allocation regionally that ensures that people are gereity distrite frusion th Assembly Member mark levine was asking about outbreak plans here two months ago. I asked cdcr and san quentin to develop a Site Specific plan back in april. In may, they declined to do so. But now what were seeing if the transfer of inmates is that they had no plan at all. Written or unwritten. We need someone i
Absolutely spread into the community at large. Reporter out of the 8000 prisoners statewide, only a couple hundred are expected to be released here from san quentin. There is support for this, obviously as we just saw but what more can you tell us that the timing of the releases . Reporter we are hearing that 3500 prisoners are expected to be released by the end of this month and it will continue until august and possibly go into september. Thank you. California experienced its deadliest week of the pandemic yet averaging more than 80 deaths per day and that is the average. Nearly 7800 new confirmed cases yesterday and yesterday 140 new debts. The test Positivity Rate is up to 7. 4. Los angeles county remains a hotspot for the most new cases. Right now Oakland Unified School district officials are holding a Virtual Meeting to discuss plans for the start of the school year next month and the meeting is just getting underway and the first day of instruction is set for august 10 and distr
They are joyful they never thought they would see this day, and so they looking for a brighter future. Reporter long frustrated by the disaster on the street, tenderloin housing director randy shaw is bullish on the settlement. It requires 70 percent of the 10th in the city to be removed by july 20. The 30 percent remaining must eventually be removed as well. It shouldnt take a lawsuit for the city to do its job. And if this means we get more urgency and people get off the streets, then we address the unconscionable situation in the tenderloin right now. I think it can be a good thing. Rertdirict supervisor matt haney has mixed feelings. He is worried that only 30 percent of those on the streets are eligible for hotel rooms now held by the city. Right now they are still relying on the same criteria for who gets to come inside. You have to be over 60 years old, or have an underlying medical condition. That leaves out thousands of people. Our primary frustration is that the plan was deve
Armed officers walk into the restaurant. And im getting questions, whats going on. Are you guying having to get shut down. And i was just as confused as them. In the middle of our rush, to be basically strongarmed into saying you guys gotta shut down tomorrow or everybody is getting fined. Theres a big issue with that. And mostly the confusion. In a statement abc told us edges did not issue any cite eggs or fines but advised businesses not to reopen today except as a takeout operation. Local leaders say they were completely left in the dark. Now theyre demand something clarity. They had no idea. Including the county council. Had no idea of the enforcement that was going through. And in fact, its customary of any outside policing agency, when they go into a station to notify their jurisdiction. Also the sheriff of the county was not notified. They risk losing state funds if they fail to enforce elth orders this Holiday Weekend. And more developing news, this time out of san quentin, ano