Another troubling day for the state with more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, the Positivity Rate is jumping and checkout hospitalizations, they are of 81 . We show you why the state believes the search right now could be the worst one yet. Reporter generally speaking counties are doing a lot better than the rest of the state, hospitals in Northern California are not experiencing that crisis level where there are not enough icu beds but we dont know when that surge will and thats why Health Officials are still concerned and preparing for the worst. Hospitalizations have spiked by more than 81 over the last 14 days. My parents definitely have a high risk so i would be terrified and scared if they got sick. I talked to Hospital System leaders many times per day to hear how things are going on the ground. Reporter the numbers arent as bad in the bay area compared to counties like los angeles where even Outdoor Dining has been shut down. For example there are 53 patients in intensive ca
The state forcing 2 counties back into the red tonight and new rollbacks, right now in San Francisco even though it is still in the yellow tier. Were live in San Francisco with this big setback. Reporter the restrictions were state imposed and self imposed as the virus continues to rage around the country. California and the bay area are no longer immune to the rising tide of coronavirus cases across the country, the county moved from the states orange deer to the more restrictive red tear, the new tier means reduced capacity for Indoor Dining and churches, worrying some business owners. The landlord is helping us as much as we differed or later we still have to pay for it. Reporter the Public Health officer begged people to stop gathering. Even if we have not seen them for a wildest because they are close to us personally does not mean that they have lower risk of passing it on to you or having it come from you to them. Reporter while San Francisco has not officially sloped on the ind
Time ever, in a use of force case in San Francisco, a former Police Officer faces homicide charges, for a Deadly Police shooting more than three years ago. Good evening. Joe was in the city with the decision that the das office is calling his stork. Reporter they made the announcement this morning that a former Police Officer now faces criminal charges for shooting a man in the line of duty. As far as we are aware, this is the first ever time that the San Francisco District Attorneys Office has filed homicide charges against a Law Enforcement officer for a homicide while on duty. Reporter the officer, chris samayoa. He was in the front passenger seat of a patrol car, body camera video shows and firing through the window, shattering the glass, and fatally wounding he was immediately fired, now, three years later the da is charging the officer with several crimes, including voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, assault by the executive officer, and negligent discharge of a fi
They are everywhere but it would not want to see more coming to pleasanton. Plus a new plan to go back to school. We are live with the new timeline for one of the biggest bay area counties. Is adding extra room for gambling the right way to increase revenue . The moral dilemma tonight over one south bay ballot measure. That neglect, Domestic Violence that results. It is going to add millions of dollars to our city budget. Right now on the kpix 5 news at 7 00, streaming on cbsn bay area, a plan tonight to move dozens of Homeless People from oakland to downtown pleasanton. Some neighbors and county officials are saying, not so fast. Good evening. Im ken bastida. And im kate cook. Reporter City Council Members in oakland want to use some open space at the Alameda County fairgrounds for an organized encampment but as you can imagine, the idea is not definitely getting some pushback. Take a quick drive along the side streets near interstate 80 and oak street and there is obviously a problem
Thai im Judy Woodruff im thrilled to be joining these three amazing others today. You see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book our man Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American Century and Susan Glasser and peter baker his book is out this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of james a. Baker to third. Two brilliant books about too complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer holbrooke a democrat a Foreign Service officer a student of foreign policy. Their lives took very different trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Picking up on that this is a man with great vision and it was there before he came to washington. It was. He was a family feud aristocracy. He was expected to great things. He had a very dominating father who imparted on him the legacy of his family or the bakers