Major breakthrough. Good evening. Im julie haener working from home tonight. Im a frank somerville. Researchers at Oxford University have been testing the drug and they say that if the steroid had been used from the beginning of the pandemic, probably thousands of lives could have been saved. 10 months is a smith has talked with medical experts today and the drug is widely available and not that expensive. Yes, frank in fact i did speak to a stanford doctor on the front lines of the pandemic who is cautiously optimistic but says she would like to see the data behind todays findings before putting the steroid to use. At Stanford University doctors in the intensive care unit treating the sickest covid19 patients are taking a closer look at the drug dexamethasone to help improve patients chances of survival. Dr. Leandra rogers specializes in pulmonary and critical care. One of the most important things about the study is it seems to help very sick patients with covid19. Reporter on tuesda
Caught on camera, the terrifying moment a bookcase falls on two children. Theyre okay, but this morning the powerful message from their mother. Plus, the surprising study revealing the car company that now ranks last in quality. And blazing the trail, meet the all women crew of this big city fire station. Good thursday morning to you, everyone. Thank you for joining us. The cdc is now predicting the u. S. Will see 150,000 deaths from the coronavirus by the middle of next month. In terms of new cases of the virus, were back to where we were in april with nearly 35,000 infections each day. The big concern right now is in arizona, texas, florida and california. Breaking overnight, weve learned that dozens of secret Service Officers and agents are now in selfquarantine after President Trumps rally saturday night in tulsa. Two of their colleagues have reportedly tested positive. The Trump Campaign did not comment overnight. Meanwhile on wall street, stocks falling overnight after the dow lo
California late friday. A Community Policing with african little bit of patchy fog. American business owners. Not much there. That the summer temperatures to 60. This is an opportunity to discuss the court roles and responsibility that law san jose at 60 degrees. Under mostly clear skies. A enforcement in specific terms hint of some fog. Today the has in relation to the public hottest day for many inland it safety. And begin to unpack the opportunity to look at public fog wont help anybody away from the coast. Tomorrow will. Safety more holistically and begin to focus on a social mild for the coast and hot inland with a little bit of service, a health mindset. Patchy fog out there. About seven degrees warmer than 24 hours ago. Livermore 7. We are on the the governor says california is already working on Police Reform and last year they way. Cooler weather not far away. Sometimes in june its a long way away. Not this time. Passed laws to limit the use of force while adding more police b
We head throughout the day, helping to heat us up. In the 50s and 60s. Mild start to the day, and we will head through the afternoon, and mid70s in San Francisco. Low 80s in oakland. Mid80s for fremont. 90 for san jose. Mid90s for concord, livermore, and santa rosa, and later this afternoon, big changes ahead, a cooldown on the way. Changes coming up in a few minutes. Im anne makovec and we are continuing to follow the breaking news out of vallejo. Several people were shot late last night and injured. We dont know the extent of the injuries right now. New video from the scene, happening around 0p. , and po i , anthere appeared to i be a party, between amelia and wendy street, Vallejo Police are confirming right now, theres been multiple gun shot victims in north vallejo, and they said Additional Details will be provided as they become available. Witnesses at the scene telling us at least four people were seen being taken from the seen to area hospitals, and at least one of them was a c
Portapotty. 10250 people. Well, we know homes. I think theres 3 on either side put up with hand washing stations all the challenges that people are sharing bathrooms. The first choice being hotel rooms for the homeless. The city was supposed to secure nearly 8,000 rooms. But so far only 1300 unhoused people were moved into hotel rooms and harveys as part of a statewide program to shelter vulnerable Human Services agency is responsible for this. If a long time to bring Hotels Online to negotiate contracts. Theyre having some. Against areas around staffing, although all of the hotels and ive been at ive been. Find was staffing maybe even over staff. So you know theyve had a lot of reasons a lot of excuses sometimes a new excuse every week San Francisco supervisor matt haney says. The city needs to move faster with getting people into hotel rooms well, the safe sleeping areas provide food and health services, he says they could actually be costing the city more than the preferred option o