Rights. The u. S. Supreme court ruled today that a landmark civil rights law protects and transgender people from discrimination in employment. The court decided by a 63 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as title 7 that bars job discrimination because of one also applies to orientation or gender identity with more we go now to kron fours justine waltman shes live in our newsroom with details just team. Well this outcome is expected to have a big impact for the over 8 million lgbtq workers across the country and i want you to think about this way until todays ruling it was legal and more than half of the states to fire workers for being bisexual or transgender most states do not protect lgbtq people from workplace, discrimination this ruling is considered a defeat for the Trump Administration. The white house would argue that the Civil Rights Act did not extend to claims of gender identity and orientation, but the conservative court disagreed. Governor gavi
Said are infected. Dan kerman has the latest. The fact is the worst is yet to come for weeks now San Francisco city officials have warned the most vulnerable populations are most at risk for the coronavirus among them the homeless. Now an outbreak at the citys largest homeless shelter Multiservice Center self at 5th and bryant. We have identified. 70 people 68 members of the shelter as well as 2 Staff Members who have tested positive for covid19. Typically this place can house up to 340 people but efforts by the city to increase social distancing by spreading out shelter residents to other locations. Made it so as of thursday shelter Public Health director doctor grant colfax says the first 2 cases were confirmed sunday night. Those 2 were moved to hotels for isolation and then on wednesday all shelter guests were tested. Currently. My department is conducting a mass testing strategy at msc south. Testing all gassed and staff for covid19 whether they are showing symptoms are not. Again
That is mayor london breed talking about the fact there is an outbreak of the coronavirus in San Franciscos biggest homeless shelter. Hello everyone, im Catherine Heenan that shelter his own 5th and bryant to the south of market neighborhood, 68 a Homeless People to Staff Members as the mayor said dan kerman is life and has the latest on this stand. Well the real concern of course here is that they have been worrying about vulnerable populations and talking about it for weeks. And now it has hit this homeless shelter, the largest one in the city and many of those who have tested positive have Chronic Health conditions, none seriously ill at this point, but that is a major concern going forward. The fact is the worst is yet to come for weeks now San Francisco city officials have warned the most vulnerable populations are most at risk for the coronavirus among them the homeless. Now an outbreak at the citys largest homeless shelter Multiservice Center self at 5th and bryant. We have iden
God that its the right decision. I would say without question its the biggest decision ive ever had to make. President trump acknowledging the magnitude of the move is he looked at possibly reopening the country and the economy at the end of the month thanks for joining us tonight at 8 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the president also announced today that there will be another task force focused soley. On reopening the country. But the trump administrations top doctors are raising doubts about returning to normal too soon today, doctor Anthony Fauci said even when things start opening back up that does not mean the coronavirus is completely gone away. Dont let anyone get any force ideas that when we decide. At a proper time when were going to be relaxing some of the restrictions. Theres no doubt youre going to see cases i would be so surprised if we did not see cases. And doctor deborah birx says that the peak of the pandemic is still to come this is the United S
With us tonight at 10 im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis some positive news from the state Health Officials today. Showing declining trend lines of covid19 all across california. Governor newsome crediting that too well practice, social and physical distancing. But urging the state to continue its effort even with temptations like Easter Sunday this weekend. The future happens inside of us its decisions not. Conditions that will determine the fate and future of this your individual decisions. Tonight there are more than 21,000 cases in california and nearly 600 deaths here in the bay area we have more than 4600 confirmed cases in Santa Clara County continues to be the hardest hit locally with more than 1400 cases, theyre 47 people have died in that county, San Mateo County has 638 cases in 21 deaths, San Francisco county. Almost 800 cases and 13 deaths Contra Costa County has 511 cases and 9 deaths, 766 cases to go along with 20 deaths in alameda county. Meanwhile in the north bay ma