All the reaction this morning, senator cory booker joins us live. Under siege. California battling hundreds of wildfires, supercharged by nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in just 72 hours. Multiple fires now burning into each other. The firestorm on the move at this hour. Thousands fleeing. Some barely making it out. Raising the alarm. The startling new evidence, how children could carry high levels of coronavirus. Some significantly higher than hospitalized adults. This as teachers in hardhit florida are suing to stop inperson learning and the Largest School district in the nation, new york city, demanding schools to require testing. Putin critic poisoned . The most proud Opposition Leader to Vladimir Putin rushed to intensive care after falling sick on a plane in moscow. His plane made an Emergency Landing just hours after he had hot tea at the airport. Was poison mixed in his tea . Courtside confrontation. New body camera video shows the sheriffs deputy aggressively pushing raptors T
Long stretch of extreme heat for the bay area. We will see some of the hottest temperatures this season. Were looking at record highs. Looking at 108 in concord and 98 for san jose and 94 oakland. Here is that extended forecast, we are still going to stay hot as we look ahead to our weekend. Maybe a little cooler on sunday but still warm conditions. The pois th00e cio ght now. The outage 0 and is affecting parts of the civic center. They believe it may have been caused by scheduled maintenance and they hope to get the power back on within the hour. State officials have issued a flex alert for today hoping to prevent any problems with the power grid and asking everyone to conserve energy between 3 00 and 10 00 p. M. Lets go to the governor for an update on the coronavirus. Not as governor, but as a parent of four young children. We have different situations and different ages and different schools. We are having conversations which i know millions of americans and millions of california
We begin serious concerns about the quality of its covid19 testing data. Health officials there say a statewide glitch is causing massive under counting and is now affecting their ability to track the spread of the virus. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Chris wynne has our top story from san jose. Reporter tonight growing concerns after officials discovered a glitch with cal redie the covid19 reporting system. We are back to blind. We dont know how the epidemic is trending. Reporter a fraessment as she the data isouies on it to gde t reopening of econog businesses and schoo very anxio issue to get resolved. We expect all of these numbers are going to gohat extent we do. Reporter so far the governor hasnt said much about the problem. However, the states Top Health Official shared this during a recent briefing. There is a specific component that feeds information from labs to both the state system and local Public Health system that may be the place where data is getting stuck. R
Discussion entitled, historically speaking, Thurgood Marshall, a life in American History, an evening with spencer crew and paul finkle man. Before we begin, let me also welcome our audience whos streaming the discussion through the museums you stream channel. Our twitter handle this evening is historicallyspeaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast via cspan book tv and will be aired at a later date. Through dr. Crews compelling new biography introduces us to the constant battles of equality faced by africanamericans through a study of Thurgood Marshalls extraordinary courage and his believe in the power of the law to change society. Thurgood marshall, a life in American History, follows his career from his youth in baltimore, maryland, to his days as a Supreme Court justice. Thurgood marshalls inspiring story illustrates how pervasive is racism in American Society and reveals the difficulty of the struggles of africanamericans to make progress against it. Throu
Recent civil unrest that we saw in the streets of downtown san jose last month. Or the covid19 pandemic. We also heard from the mayor of san jose, who said back here live. The chief says he will stay on in his current role through december, which is when he expects his replacement to be named. Im chris nguyen, abc7 news. Okay, chris, thank you very much. Now to our efforts to build a better bay area. Education is a very important part of that and one oh of the topics well focus on tonight. Is the start of school is coming up quick. Two weeks for San Francisco. The bay areas Biggest School district. In the capital of silicon valley, thousands of low income students and families will soon have free access to the internet. Its part of an Innovative Partnership being launched between san jose and at t. Chris nguyen filed this story earlier. Reporter in the midst of the Coronavirus Crisis, bridging the Digital Divide is now more important than ever. We have heard too often of our children h