Plus, tonight, medical experts weigh in as some bay area parents push for a return to inperson classes. The illness needing hospitalization does occur in children. And how Santa Clara County plans to home 20,000 Homeless People in five years. Good evening. I am elizabeth cook. I am ken bastida. Tomorrow, extreme heat is fueling wildfires near los angeles and concerns about Power Outages up here. We have Team Coverage, first our chief meteorologist paul heggen. Temperatures into the 90s. Some spots cracking triple digits this afternoon. 12 to 15 degrees above normal for this time of year. It will be build closer and closer to us through the weekend and next week. Every day wont be identical. There will be ups and downs. Tomorrow is the hottest day we will see. We will threaten record high temperatures across the bay area. All these locations within a degree or two of the record highs for august 14. It is still going to be hot into the weekend. I will track the ups and down coming up in
11,000 prisoners early and now it is considering another 6500 inmates for Early Release. And that has victims and their advocates up in arms tonight. Kron fours dan kerman joins us now live with details on this story good evening. Dan. Good evening just in were looking here at the latest from the California Department of corrections more than 8500 cases of covid19 so far at least 4 dozen deaths as a result of trying to get this under control. But how theyre doing it has victims families crime fall. Its like losing my brother all over again he loves talking about the Early Release of the woman convicted of the 1998 murder of her brother john originally sentenced to 84 years to life to Rebiya Williams was just freed last week under californias covid19 Early Release program after serving just a quarter of that time he was only 23 at the time so she she was in jail. Less time than he was alive. And. That is appalling to me so far more than 11,000 inmates have been released early to curb th
Reporter the superintendent says with the new cases they will reevaluate whether to start school on august 10th, and if they cancel inperson classes. Some students and parents say instead of the current format of online ngday,sh all that stufi reing ol are will online why would we put our kids back in school . Reporter the school board will meet soon to talk about how they will move forward, and allen they have to make a decision quick because august 10th is coming up. It is coming up quickly and da lin you said the other students in the pod havent shown symptoms but have they been tested . Reporter the superintendent says theyre not sure if they notified all the students and parents. They are asking the families to get advice from their doubt theres. They are not demanding the students get a test because they know there is a shortage of the tests. Yeah but they are watching him closely, da lin thanks so much. The west coast Conference Announcing today it will delay the start of all fa
Call 1. 877. Only. Att a thief busts through a window like this, and then steals thousands of dollars worth of laptops and tablets from this catholic school. At least 31 costco employees test positive for covid19. Public Health Leaders across the south bay address whether its safe for you to shop. In the midst of major covid surge, San Francisco has readied this new care facility in the c. A warmup ahead. Ai. This is abc 7 news. Oures ng rord at several south bay costco locations. More than 30 employees have tested positive. Take a look. This shows the four warehouses with socalled clusters in santa clara county. You see Mountain View, sunnyvale, and gilroy. Tonight word from the Public Health department about the outbreak. Here is amanda del castill. Clusters reported at four costco locations across santa clara county. Public Health Officials defining a cluster with three or more cases of covid19 reported over a twoweek period. As of thursday, the combined number of positive cases was
The way we get these reported, if youre a worker there, you get tested on your own for the most part. You then report your positive case to your employer who then reports to us. Reporter covid19 testing officer dr. Marty fensterschibe says by thursday, the Mountain View reported four positive cases. The sunnyvale location on lauren station road reported 13. In san jose, on center road, there were eight cases of covid19 there. And gilroy on camino arroyo, six employees tested positive for the virus. Investigations by the county found infected employees likely caught the virus outside the workplace. The official investigation shows that most likely was not inside the store, but were still investigating these and well have a final determination later on. Despite the clusters, he says investigations show these locations are meeting county Health Standards and will not need to close. Fensterschibe says customers can continue shopping, urging them to do so safely. We want to make sure that p