Reporter and why jocelyn is holding on to hope that benefits are extended or she can get back to work. For my job to open, hopefully the coronavirus goes away. Waiting on that. Reporter edd says no matter what happens, 26 weeks of benefits are available and its in the process of hiring more than 5,000 people to help handle claims. In san jose, scott budman, nbc bay area news. Californias covid surge is not slowing down. Number numbers from the state are high, 9,700 cases since yesterday and another grim milestone today, 159 new deaths. Breaks yesterdays record of 157. Lets talk about the deaths. Over 8,000 people have died of coronavirus since the pandemic started. And as jessica mentioned comes after two backtoback record setting days. Daily new deaths in the state, series of peaks through march, april, and here in may. Then look when we get to july 8th. Thats when the spikes became higher. 149 people died of the virus on that day. Record high at that time. But take a look at this wee
Spreading. Here in the bay area the number of pos ive tests generally remains bel of 5 with the exception of marin county where cases have shot up due in part to an outbreak at san quentin prison. Joining me to discuss the prison situation is dr. Matthew willis joining from san rafael. Marin county is experiencing the largest covid spiking the bay area largely due to the outbreak at the prison. In what is done to manage that contagion . We have seen in the past few weses a remarkable incrin cases attributed to marin county because that facility is within our boundaries. There has been alcast 600 s now at that facility and about 600 if you include staff. Up until, for the first three months of our outbreak here in marin county we had a tol of 1000 cases. You can imagine almost 600 in two weeks drives those case rates up dramatically and has established us as havingthe highest incidence they wide. We are working with th California Department of corrections to offer consultation and techn
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Well drop down to 56 degrees and then start to warm up going throughout the day. In the south bay, our high temperatures headed into the upper 70s in downtown san jose. Ill talk more about that and the rest of the forecast. Vianey has a look at our morning commute. As i mentioned its only 4 30. There were a couple of overnight fender benders but not affecting anything now. Look at our Speed Sensors. We have a lot of green which means no major slow spots to report at this hour. Lets take a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. Now i am starting to notice some slowing. Its a little too early for those metering lights to be on, so ill check out the chp report and see whats going on. They may just have some delays or some maybe closed lanes as well. Let me check out what thats about. For now we have slowing at the bay bridge toll plaza. Ill let you know what thats about in a bit. Two days after the horrific shooting at the gilroy garlic festival the community is coming together. Last nig