Wednesday night im Jonathan Mccall as you just heard from governor Gavin Newsome california saw more than 12,000 new cases of covid19 in a 24 hour period. Its the highest number since the pandemic began. California now has more than 409,000 confirmed cases surpassing new york state for the most in all of the United States, new york state though still leads the country with 32,000 covid19 deaths, even though new york state has a population half of californians. Here in the bay area we saw more than a 1000 new cases of covid 1913 new deaths overnight. Tonight local leaders are continuing to call on the public to do their part to keep the virus from spreading. We need people to be responsible to keep their distance from others to avoid gatherings in to wash their hands. San Francisco Mayor london breed now urging folks to continue to Work Together to stop the spread of coronavirus today she announced new ways to make testing for the virus a priority for the city as kron fours michelle kin
Part of the city with the ability to do about 500 tests each day we can slow the spread of covid19. We have occur before. And we must do it again. Lives are at stake. The citys Public Health director grant colfax says its getting harder for people to book appointments and the turnaround times for test results continue to vary anywhere from 3 to 10 days in San Francisco, their goal is to conduct at least 1800 tests per day in the past week theyve exceeded that by averaging more than 3200 a day the new test sites in appointment slots will increase the amount of tests the city is currently averaging by about 45 but mayor breed says shes still upset by the amount of people in the city not taking this seriously im really disappointed because what youre doing when you gather with when youre not wearing your mask, youre making our recovery longer. Youre making it more difficult for people to send their kids back to school in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news here in the bay area we
75 years on from devastation the people of hiroshima mark the use of the First Nuclear bomb with silent prayers. And coming up this hour. Beavers are given the right to remain in england 15 family groups are given permisssion to stay, 400 years after the animals were hunted to extinction in the country. Hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Aid from around the world has started to arrive in lebanon after the devastating chemical explosion in the port area of beirut on tuesday. The death toll now stands at 137 people, but is expected to rise. More than 5000 people were injured in the explosion. The country is begining three days of National Mourning as a two week state of emergency is declared in the region. And as leaders from around the world pledge their support for the relief effort, the french president Emmanuel Macron is due to meet his lebanese counterpart this mornin
You guys are continuing to operate . Are you the owner . From first street to the Mayors Office inside city hall. I cant comment on that. Reporter and this one on baskin avenue. All three gyms caught with open doors, despite state and Santa Clara County orders to shut down. This fitness gym in bay area advertises on instagram. We also spotted clients indoors, which is not allowed by the state. We showed the video to county leaders. Certainly they are violating both orders. The majority of the people were not wearing masks. Were not practicing social distance. We see videos like that the people in the community will send us and as soon as we get one, we send it out, we sent investigators out. Reporter angela is a Deputy District Attorney in the county. She and her team have received more than 10,000 complaints about violators, both Business Owners and citizens. However, only 50 citations have been handed out so far. Most are headed out the first month of the shelterinplace order. We shi
Things as developing data of cases and criteria for lifting the stayathome order. [indiscernible] good afternoon. Thank you for being here with us this afternoon. Yourforward to taking questions once everybody has an opportunity to give an update. We are in the middle of a fight for our state. It is taking a tremendous cost. Us to pushg all of ourselves beyond what is comfortable. What is fair or sustainable for much longer we stay strong, stay in the fight we can see the finish line but the push to the end requires all of us to sprint. We are at her new the peak in mississippi. This is the most painful time this is the hardest time. It is the beginning of a turning point that we have not gotten past our peak pain yet. I pray every day for an end to this crisis and we are acting together to protect our people. We have been to other trials and overcome. We will come through this also. I know that what is being asked of use is not easy. It is not even close to being easy. We also notice