Milestone, 6. 8 million cases, 200,000 atsorth world wnd the combined. U. S. , about onefourth to one fifth of the worlds number of cases. Although we do have a big popul population but overrepresents in the number of cases. So we want to explore what is happening there and we have a doctor with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security who will be us or we had him, lost him, getting him back. We want to talk about flu season coming up, a lot of doctors fear the twindemic. We want to check in with dr. Alok patel who talked about the importance of the flu shot. Lets get right to dr. Patel because i got my flu shot yesterday, right . I posted about it on social media and i was flabbergasted at some of the responses i got. And ight, w t dress th i not controversial that i got a flu shot and i got some really earnest responses, dr. Patel, from people who were spreading myths about the flu shot and i just want to clear this up with you today. So one of the first myths that som
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Saying if the infection rate in new york state remained low and statewide give or take, it is low, hovering around the 1 mark the schools could open. Governor cuomo previously said if it stayed below 5 they could open if it were to spike up to 9 they would then close down so this is in line with that, what the governor is saying today. The most important part of all of this is what the local jurisdictions decide to do, and the way it played out in new york is that the local superintendents of School Districts around the state submitted their plan by last friday. Now, some didnt get a plan in at all but most did, and most of those superintendents submitted a plan that had some blended approach, meaning that even if School Districts be open to in person learning, students would not be going backtoschool five days a week, in some districts they would, but in most they would not. It be one or two or three days a week, some rotating system that allows the schools to have a smaller presence
90s inland, upper 70s low 80s right along the bay. James. All right john thank you to 8 oclock lets get to that breaking news this morning. 3 deputies were shot and a gunman killed is a shootout in Contra Costa County near brentwood. It happened around well after an 11 hour standoff with a gunman. This was in the Quiet Community of nights and heres a map showing you where it occurred it was on green acres lane right off highway 4 and lone tree way. Lets go to conference reyna harvey shes at the Sheriffs Office all morning giving us the very latest arena. Yeah, were still waiting for an update on the condition of those deputies what we know 3 of the deputies were shot, 2 of them had to be rushed to a hospital this is all during a call out for Domestic Violence dispute, were going to show you that scene from yesterday in a standoff that lasted nearly all day. You can see this is on the 1700 block of green acres lane and nights 10 when a man barricaded himself inside a home with a woman n
That woman able to xscape now that evening the gunman came out of the house and fired a shotgun at members of the swat team, you know that 3 of them were hit, we know that 2 of them in the hospital, the deputies returned fire they hit and killed that man. Now 2 of the deputies like i mentioned were still waiting to hear word on their status after being taken to the hospital and since this was a deputy involved shooting there are multiple agencies that are still investigating this for now reporting here in Contra Costa County Reyna Harvey Kron 4 news. All right, thank you very much random. 6 o one right now and get a look at the weather and get ready for the heat. John yeah, it is going to be a hot weekend even hotter than weve been so far this week temperatures only climbing in the days ahead of us today other than yesterday tomorrow little hotter than today. And then sunday even hotter, yeah, a little bit of fog heading out into the bay right now from suture tower can see the bay righ