Live news desk. Breaking news overnight, the west nile virus confirmed. The Santa Clara County district will now be spraying treatments in part of the area a later this week. The positive tests from mosquitoes in part of the zip code 95035. They are going to be spraying the area with chemicals from a truck starting late thursday night. The Vector Control district started to leave door hangers, notice if iing people of the planned treatment and giving notice on social media and county alert systems, and they said theres no need for people to relocate during the treatments, and they said its safe. The treatment has been approved by state and federal regulators, and obviously nothing that we want to be worrying about right now in the midst of the the two viruses ha similar symptoms as well. Back to you. Something else to Pay Attention to. Thank you, ann. The San Jose Council will be discussing their crowd control policy. Kiet do with more. Reporter its been a week and a half since the mas
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, parking lots finally reopened to help relieve some of the crunch at this popular bay beach, but youre still going to have to cop early to snag a spot. And bay area mayors make a plea to the state for more help housing the homeless. Why they say the pandemic has made the crises more urgent happen ever. The leaders in Santa Clara County calling out private health care system. How they ear being pushed to do more covid19 testing. Good evening. Im allen martin. And im Elizabeth Cook. We begin with kpix 5 len ramirez and the hospitals to do more coronavirus testing. Len . Reporter well, there was quite a ill little bit of back and forth between the county and some of the private providers today with the county saying that private hospitals need to do more to help the county reach its goals in terms of testing people for the coronavirus. But the hospitals are saying that the county is not doing enough Contact Tracing at this point to make t
Commands they were giving, i can tell you from what i see so far, it looks like the san jose officers were forming a skirmish line based on the size of the crowd. There probably having a particular area or ground theyre trying to cover or take back or at least move some of the demonstrators back to a certain position. Its coordinated and uniform. I thought they showed a lot of restraint and discipline, they are maintaining these lines of integrity. Office lay there are people there, i can see right now that are provocateurs and t ground and remaining professional. I see that there are people with smoke grenades and people throwing debris at the officers, so that is concerning, but the officers are following the direction of their commander, they have a plan. I dont know what the plan is but obviously theyre making sure that they protect life and property. There are a lot of things going on out there and a lot of people that could get hurt including officers so i think they are doing a
Freeway entrance 101 and they walked down the ramp where you can see the cars moving right now and they walked onto the freeway, it was cars going by at freeway speed. Slowly but surely, the driver saw what was happening and they slow down in the protesters took over the freeway and they stayed that way for over an hour. Traffic was backing up for miles back on highway 101. At some point, the Police Department from san jose came on scene with a show of force, they part their cars and dozens of these riot gear Police Officer started getting out, at that point, the freeway protesters started dispersing, they went up the ramp and there they stayed for another hour or so. There was some pushing and shoving going on, a lot of the protesters were in the faces of t the officers ut the officers showed tremendous restraint. They were pushing back but they werent beating down anybody which is a big difference that wouldve really incited the crowds. They were just kind of pushing them back and de
Rol til that point, but now down to about seventh from sixth street, thats where the crowd started getting more and more unruly and thats with a cup started getting into their scrimmage lines and trying to forcefully remove people, declaring this an Unlawful Assembly. In taking steps to disperse the crowd physically. It looks like we have another protester down on the ground being arrested. Len, im watching this just like everybody else at home e maybnot althat famiar saa cla street,proxity of city hall to Police Station. Reporter the Police Station is several blocks away from city hall in the Old City Hall was one block away from the Police Department but several years ago city hall was moved downtown, so its probably two miles across the downtown area from a Police Department to city hall, so this is nowhere near the Police Department at this point. Santa clara street is obviously a busy, busy venue at this point of the afternoon on any day and its effectively close right now. Report