Urging caution. Unfortunately it was positive. Im one of the contact tracers from the county. Reporter jill is a covid detective with a deft touch. Did you have any symptoms yourself . Not really. Reporter informing people they have covid, quizzing them on their contacts and finding out what they need to stay isolated. When she started this work in june she was swamped. There was such a backlog. Since then we have sort of gradually caught up with everything. So yeah, it was really bad. August has been a much better month for us. We have seen reduction by half an hour case counts. Reductions in deaths, fewer outbreaks. Reporter july to august, a turnaround in marin, curving covid spread at san quentin prison in outbreaks among nursing homes. Positivity rates are dropping, but this morning against complacency. We are still vulnerable to losing the gains weve achieved if we relax too quickly. We have seen that happen already, that happened in the month of june. Lets take that as a lesson
Ash was falling like snow in especially the mountainious foothill communities that are outside of the city of fresno some spots. Check out this car in all nut creek. It was a similar story in Pleasant Hill where this car in clovis. Some of those communities. Firefighters are working hard hood was covered with ash, to keep the fires out of those along with a couch in the towns. We know it will take a long time and a lot of hard work to backyard of one persons home. Get all of these fires under those eerie orange skies that greeted the bay caught control. We appreciate the latest information. Thank you, daniel, for taking the time. Many by surprise. Thanks. President trump interviewed Cristina Rendon has more. By Journalist Bob Woodward for his new book. Welcome to my backyard here hear some of the audio in Pleasant Hill. Recordings where the president our Patio Furniture covered in admits he knew the coronavirus park. I do this to show how thick was deadlier than the flu and that were s
Reporter pg e recently began cutting power in the him bulbly Climate Exchange sierra and some parts of the real. In turn, the president focused his attention on forest bay area. Management. President trump stopping in california for a briefing on the utility has installed the massive and Deadly Wildfires burning in the state. Additional sexualizers on its blanketing much of the west distribute lines. They also have 30 more health coast in smoke. When you have years of dried comers and two airplanes with leaves on the ground, it just sets it up. Its really a fuel for a fire. Infrared cameras to expect so they have to do something lines. The idea is that each year about it. Reporter the president these Public Safety power shutoffs will become smaller and that they will not last as long. Repeated his charge about reporter pg e has pledged 35 a he next five years as part of a recent Forest Management. It was Mcclellan Air force base bankruptcy. Pg e must meet strict safety where they met.
Been destroyed or damaged. Firefighters are also making progress on the czu lightning complex fire burning in the santa cruz mountain. It is burned 80,000 acres in santa cruz and san mateo counties, but is now 19 contained. The fire has destroyed 538 homes and other structures, mostly in Santa Cruz County. The good news is there are no new evacuation warnings or orders. The gains made in containing the czu complex have officials feeling optimistic that they will be able to allow more people to return to their properties as early as next week. Jesse gary has details on that. He joins us live this afternoon from downtown felton. Reporter good afternoon. With containment growing by about 5 every couple of days, officials are now working to take the teeth out of this fire by burning potential fuel before it can go up in flames. Although it does make people nervous, introducing fire to the environment, especially from the outside, but you have the best people available doing that job. Repor
San Francisco Muni is free today to help get people to contained. Whether relief centers. Attractions including near woods, alcatraz and fort point are all closed today due to the poor air quality. The fire has now damaged or destroyed at least 2000 homes and buildings and is what are the effects of this threatening about 4000 more. Poor air quality on our health . Today governor newsome toward the massive fire area around orville as a break in the weather and the slight dr. Stephanie christiansen possibility of some rain joins us live this afternoon. Provided a small measure of she is an assistant professor hope for people in that region. Of medicine at ucsf. Tom vacar joining us with more on what the governor sought to day and what he had to say. The dr. Thank you for being here. We are going on nearly 4 weeks in a row of these conditions. It was a very somber gavin what are the dangers of the extended exposure to this newsom. Wildfire smoke . I think especially for people with preex