From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. Now a night of San Francisco firefighter is in Critical Condition tonight after a major accident. This is video here of the scene where it happened courtesy of the citizen app. Officials say a firefighter standing near a hose line was hih and dropped to the ground hitting his head and muni bus was involved fire crews, were responding to an electrical fire near market and spear this afternoon when that accident took place good evening, everybody, thanks sure being here 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis that firefighter is recovering tonight at San Francisco General Hospital. And thats where we find kron fours Jonathan Mccall his life for us with the latest on the investigation and what could have happened to this firefighter jonathan s. Grant vicki so many questions still unanswered tonight. But we do know that firefighter matthew van a sixyear veteran of the San Francisco Fire Department remains here at zuckerber
7 . Californias benchmark is 8 . Governor newsom is set to give an update today on the states response to the pandemic. Last week he announced that the state is withholding money from cities that defy Health Orders would i allowi by allowing all businesses to reopen. You can watch the update live at noon right here on action 7, on the free abc 7 news app and also on abc7news. Com. Three Bay Area College football plays, two from cal, one from stanford, joined other pac12 student athletes threatening to boycott the coming season. These 13 players are demanding greater protections against studentathletes, and ending racial injustice. The group also believes that coaches, the pac12s commissioner and School Leaders should take voluntary pay cuts. Another demand calls to stanford to use endowment money to fund 11 sports due to be cut and this is according to the players tribune. Make sure that you are paying for your parking in san jose and l san jose will not Issue Citations with time limts
And figure out what we could do better because we dont want to remain on the this watch list forever. Reporter in san mateo, nbc bay area. Lets take a closer look at that uptick in cases and hospitalizations in spate county that is chart shows the number new cases each day. Look at how the numbers were in april, may and june, pretty low. And then a big jump in july and then when we get to the last three days, numbers close to 90. Those were three days of the cases over 90 of new cases each day, enough to trigger the watch list. Now, lets look at hospitalizations. This graph just shows the past few weeks. You could see on the 17th, a jump from the 30s to the 60s and then steady but again just last few days the number has gone up into the 70s, over the weekend, july 25th, San Mateo County has three days to lower the numbers to avoid further shut downs. They got tested so where the results. Were learning several people in the bay area just learned their s samples were lost. Jodi hernandez
By streaming it on kpix. Com and other digital devices. And as the plans change leading up to the fall term. You can keep tabs on your Bay Area School district by going to kpix. Com back to school. 000 died from the coronavirus in the u. S. Thats the highest death toll in the world by far. California is one of 21 states designated by the White House Coronavirus task force as the red zone because of high coronavirus counts. The Task Force Says five more states could bed added soon. Could be added soon. Its recommended they adopt universal mask wearing and shut down bars. Florida surpassed its previous high of 186 set just 24go schools to open next month. In alabama, the governor extended the state order requiring masks in public for another month. President trump talked coronavirus, energy, and Campaign Today on his visit to texas. A newly released poll shows hes taking a hit politically over his handling of the pandemic. As skylar henry reports, his democratic rival is looking to take
And even spreading inland in spots although clear skies in concord this morning. So mid to upper 50s to low 60s as we head through the day, 64 in San Francisco and 71 in oakland and 82 in san jose and 91 for concord. So cooler at the coast and mild around the bay and heating up inland. Well talk more about the warm up in store for us for the rest of the week coming up. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we have some breaking news right now. An earthquake in Southern California was a 4. 2 magnitude that hit at 4 30 this morning. It was inbetween san fernando throughout the area. Lot of people of course in bed at that point. So we dont have any word of any injuries or any damage. Dont expect anything significant. Again, from that 4. 2. Also following this breaking r ltiple people were shot. This is in the southern part of the city. Now police have not been able to confirm anything to us yet. But we see a very heavy Police Presence there and several people being taken away in an a