Near the beniciamartinez bridge. Forward progress has been stopped in that fire but some of these fires burning pretty close to home, so were going to keep an eye on that for you. But our big story to start the week and certainly this monday, joining us to talk about the latest covid trends in california and the bay area is ucsf epidemiologist george rutherford. Great to see you. How are you . Terrific, thank you. Nice to be back. Hope you had a good fourth of july, a safe one. Lets start with the covid picture. Governor newsom laid it out for us a few hours ago. It doesnt seem good but can you start with the bay area and then move on to the state and the nation, quick snapshot. Sure, theres been about 30,000 cases of covid reported in the nine county bay area including napa, sonoma and solano but 600 only, im each death, is not just a statistic but gives you an idea. In california, closer to 300,000 cases and 6,400 deaths and nationally, were at 2. 9 million cases and almost 130,000 d
Want to work on the engineering side of this issue. Judy all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by since our beginning, our people anas been their financial wellbein that mission gives us purpose d a way forward. Today a andlways. For 25 years, consumer cellulars goal has been to provide wireles service that helps people communicate and connect. We offer a variety of no contract plans. To learn more, visit consumercellcular. Tv. Johnson johnson. The john asked and james l night foundatn. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcastin and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy the u. S. Is now averaging s ughly 40,000 new confirmed covid19 infectich day. The caseload has more than doubled this least 10 states, mostly in the south and the west. Today, the nations Top Health Expert sounded nt warnings
In court we have late details. Good evening, everybody thanks for being with us tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus in for can way and im pam moore, a big day in San Francisco San Francisco as of today restaurants are allowed to resume Outdoor Dining a maximum of 6 people considered anyone table physical distancing guidelines will be enforced. And thats not all kron fours Justine Waldman joins us live from the newsroom with details just seen. This is enormous lets go out to eat grant says early this morning restaurants. In San Francisco been open now for Outdoor Dining and businesses and customers have been waiting for this for a long time San Francisco mayor london breed visited cafe envy of the bayview to bring attention to the fact that she moved the reopening time from monday to today. I tell you it feels really good too. It feels like we have been taking it for granted for many years and its wonderful. It is great to sit and chat have a wonderful mail. Outdoor dining reopening ght
News station. Youre watching kron 4 news at 10. Now at 10 nail salons among the businesses in california which could reopen next friday, the state issued new guidelines today which will allow more businesses to reopen with county approval. Thank you for joining us on this friday night im pam moore and im grant lotus in tonight for ken wayne under the new guidelines nail salons tattoo shops massage parlors. Well all be allowed to reopen on june 19th workers and customers will be required of course to wear face masks and limited services will be available the new guidelines come as the state reports a slight uptick in the 14 day average of covid19 cases. California currently has close to 142,000 cases overall and about 5,000 deaths. The state department of Public Health, however says hospitalization rates remained stable. And while california is coronavirus death toll stands at just under 5,000. Pro tracking infections predicts that number could hit 6,000 by july first and more than 8,00
It needs to be strong in these times. New york city mayor bill deblasio held a briefing on protests in the city. Live coverage. We are going to help make sure working people are safe because nothing is more important than protecting the safety and health for new yorkers. For every person coming back to work today, we will watch out for you. If you see something wrong, we want to make sure it is addressed immediately. Youre going to hear in a little bit from Small Business services commissioner. Hes going to talk about some of the measures that hes taken and get back and get back strong. We also know for the economy to restart people have to be able to get to those jobs and this crisis has made that harder in so many pay ways. So we have some announcements that i hope mr. Start to lighten the in your den and help new yorkers move around easier and easier, first of all. Ive announced 20 new miles of bus ways and bus lanes. 20 new miles. These 20 new miles of bus lanes and bus ways are go