Pam 8 00 only kron 4 hundreds of patients at Ucsf Medical Center could be at risk because the hospital did not clean certain medical devices properly. Kron 4 outside the hospital tonight with a letter that went out to patients affected. Reporter this letter offers nearly 500 patients free blood test for hepatitis b c and hiv because of their risk for possible exposure. Chief medical officer answering questions after 471 patients received letters like this one morning they might of been exposed to infection because of a misstep and the Committee Process of a particular medical device. Its called a consent patients bladder the manufacturer recommends three step cleaning process. First precluding with detergent second a brush of the inside of the lens of the scope third complete sterilization between january 21st of this year and june 26th the second step was completely skipped. Its in the recommended steps. Pigeon reporter received a letter last week. Miss discover the mistake dr. Adler
Burning in the same area could in the sense all the firefighters here to iraqi fire all had to do was move further south of the jerusalem fire when they just a matter of hours had 500 firefighters on the scene now 24 hours later they have more than a thousand firefighters on the scene. Another benefit is because these are right next to each other therell be one will burden to the other meaning it will burn a less fresh brush. At 6,000 a. The jerusalem fire has slowed progress but has yet to be contained. Less scary especially trend hose down and were for it as a call it was crazy only reporter burn but those acres since this morning started 5 00 this morning and today latency its past half. Burninga southeast direction away from bob dylan areas. Here and spruce grove road fires also burning to the north. We expect it will bump into the rocky fire burning. Hopefully burnout of fuel. Reporter and right now hundred under 50 homes affected none have faced any damage something homeowners cr
Broadcast center, this is abc7 news. Dangerous bay area heat. The sign says 103, but it was even hotter in someplaces as we hit record highs across the bay area. And smoky San Francisco skies as wildfires rage to the north. A thick cloud of haze that brings its own dangers. Good evening, everyone. This is a look from our emeryville camera where things are finally starting to cool off, and we have Team Coverage on the hot weather. Melanie woodrow is in the east bay tonight, but we start with meteorologist drew tuma and a look at live doppler 7hd. Incredible warmth felt on this sunday afternoon. 14 cities hit record highs. Napa, santa rosa, high of 104. Downtown San Francisco got to 90 on this afternoon, 92 in oakland and a warm 97 degrees in san jose which was a record high. There was a void of cloud cover and much of the western half of the u. S. High pressure is firmly this control over las vegas bringing us the heat and the stagnant air. That will be the pattern again for monday. It
Still out of control right now. It has already destroyed one building and the crews expect to battle the flames all night and into tomorrow. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. The fires burning near tesla road south of the altamont pass. We take a look. We start with katie who is live in livermore. Katie . Dan and ama, this fire has burned 2500 acres so far and it is expected to grow. It is a winddriven fire and it is very windy in this area, and there is plenty of this, tall, dry grass and that is fuel. If you look at this varied yow shot earlier video shot earlier, you can get a real feel for how large this fire is and how mass 7 the flames are. There are 250 firefighters on the job here and more on the way. And still this fire is only 5 contained at this hour. As bad as conditions are, only one home, one structure has been lost and it was an uninhabited home. Look at this video on the ground. We shot this just within the last hour. You can see the darkened hills dotted with
Again. So youre not looking at a bounce back. At least not in the early trade. After you have such rough seas like that its not unusual to see it the next morning. But right now at least it looks like the dow is indicated to open down another 77 points. Yesterday closing below 17,000 for the First Time Since october. The s p 500 is down another 8 points after closing down by 2 yesterday. Check this out, though, the dow negative on the year. S p is negative on the year as well. This is decline of 2 yesterday for the dow. 16990 is where it closed at the end. Its at risk of the annual winning streak for six years in a row. We should point out the five dow components hitting 52 week lows yesterday includes utx, conoco, exxon and Procter Gamble an intel. Japan was down by 3 as well. Shanghai composite down and hang seng composite down by 1. 5. Chinas august flash factor pmi. Thats a key Manufacturing Index. It dropped to a 77 month low. Do the math on that, thats more than six years. Domest