3 large wildfires burning in the bay area and the good news is crews are making headway. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken wayne and im pam moore at this hour cal fire says the scu lightning complex fire in parts of the east bay and the south bay is 35 contained with more than 369,000 acres burned the lnu lightning complex fire in the north bay is now 35 contained with more than 369,000 acres burned and the czu august lightning complex fire in san mateo and santa cruz counties is now 24 contained with more than 81,000 acres burned you see where that fire is burning on this map in the Santa Cruz Mountains and into San Mateo County. So far. The fires have destroyed more than 700 structures and majority of those. Our homes are still several mandatory Evacuation Orders in effect tonight. But the good news is those orders have been lifted for the you see santa cruz campus which was threatened at the southern edge of this fire tonight kron fours gayle ong live for us in Santa Cruz County
Store you can see this here but this is not the only business that was damaged overnight you can see here also several buildings were vandalized including cars along with the Alameda County courthouse being set on fire now according to Police Numerous fires were set dozens of windows are broken out in multiple businesses were vandalized nearly 600 people took to the streets to demand justice for blake. And Police Accountability along with fundamental change nationwide now bp also says protesters temporarily shut down traffic on the 5. 80 freeway along with a bar in downtown and to close their 19th street station as city Police Tweeted photos of numerous fires that were set in the downtown area now its really important to note that the protests started peacefully but things escalated as the night went on. Pd says no officers were injured in any of this we also reached out to them to see they have an update on any of the protesters as well any of their injuries. They say several arrests
March and early april. How is it in london and the United Kingdom . Is the same tension there . Francine attention remains around the world but i think if politiciandoner, a in the u. K. , france, and spain, look at states that reopened may be more quickly than others, maybe without the same precautions than others, to try to give you a sense of what you should be doing. In london, if you look at our rate of infection, still below 1. Boris johnson this week said bars could reopen july 4. We will see as the number of cases around the world increase, exactly if consumers will go out and spend like the Prime Minister has asked them to. Return one has done the to sport like english premier football. It has been extraordinary. Their distinctive from the disaster that is american sports. Speaking of that, jason kelly in february began a project in speaking to the basketball star lebron james. Little did mr. Kelly know that this would be an extraordinary moment for bloomberg and also the spea
Day. He said he expects the testing will increase to 25,000 per day very shortly. We have more on the covenants announcement today. Reporter today in an hour plus News Conference very much lacking in specifics, the governor laid out scenarios to reopen in california and vowed he will not be pressure into premature anything. Politics will not drive our decisionmaking, political pressure will not drive our decisionmaking. The science, the data, Public Health will drive our decision making. Reporter the governor says theres been a lot of progress on testing and tracking therapeutic medicines, vulnerable populations, homeless, healthcare surge capacity, appropriate personnel and personal protective gear. The state held officers showed a very encouraging sign. Smacked the total number of hospitalizations from covid19 and the total of number of admissions and icus from covid 19 have remained stable. Reporter a specific as newsom would get on anything was suggesting, not approving, reopening
Up to now californias out of work independent contractors and those who are self employed have seen no financial help come their way that was all set to change today when they could begin applying for a pandemic unemployment assistance. Unfortunately, californias Employment Development department, the website has not really been up to the task and kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco with more details on this story. Dan. Well this is the edd web site right here and this is where those folks the people who are contractors who are self employed. This is the first chance they get to go online apply for some cash which they have not seen in 4, 5, 6, weeks because of these shelterinplace orders. The problem is this website is in keeping up with the demand. After weeks of waiting tuesday marked today, californias edd website was ready for out of work Business Owners independent contractors, self employed workers freelancers and give workers. To apply for pandemic unemplo