Number 600 for willie mays. Lon simmons the voice behind some of the most iconic sports moments in bay area history passed away today at the age of 916789 good evening, everyone im katie marzullo. Broadcast hall of Famer Lon Simmons was part of the original San Francisco giants announcing team. He went on to call games for the as and the 49 erls. Tiffany wilson begins our team cover live from at t park with reaction to his death. Reporter fans remember lon simmons as the sound track to summer nights. Even when they werent at the ballpark they say he made them feel part of the game. Simmons career in the giants broadcast booth spanned five decades. He started with russ ej hodge he is in 1958 when the giants moved to San Francisco. Today the booth is named in their honor. Simmons is remembered for his enthusiasm, his incredible sports knowledge and his booming baritone voice. He shared shows skills across the bay calling games for oakland as for 15 years and spent 26 seasons announcing f
Sports community lost a true gentleman this morning when hall of fame broadcaster lon simmons peacefully passed away. You dont hear voices like that no more. Sad to say. The guys that commentate on the games now aday, they dont have that i dont know, that pizazz. You know i know hes up there in the great giants broadcasting booth up in the sky watching down on all the future giants games. Reporter simss on was inducked into the National Baseball hall of fame in 2004. At the time he was very bashful about receiving the honor. He coined the home run catch phrase, tell it goodbye. Fans say they will have a very tough time telling him goodbye. Lon simmons again was 91. Live outside at t park. Tiffany wilson, abc7 news. Tive neshek thank you. Were joined earlier by shoe now to weigh in on this as well. You have a twofold perspective. He was calling games when you were a 49er and later he game friends. He was a bay area eyeson demonstrate the booth. The hall of famer was the original voice o
Transported from sierra leon where they contracted ebola to the u. S. In isolation aboard a privately chartered medevac. The patient is a health care worker. They were volunteering at an ebola treatment unit in west africa where they came in contact with the virus. This is the second ebola patient treated here at nih. The first was nurse nina pham. She contracted the virus at a dallas hospital while treating Thomas Duncan a liberian man who fell ill shortly after coming to the u. S. Pham was successfully treated, and released and she is now ebolafree. Nih has a highly specialized contagious disease unit designed to handle diseases like ebola one of a handful of such facilities in the country. Hospital officials are not releasing a lot of information about this patient. We dont know their gender for example, or their age. We are being told that right now they are being evaluated by that special team that handles potentially deadly infection diseases. Back to you. Well follow the story a
Missouri and what police say was the targeted attack. The News Conference expected to begin any minute now that could give us an update on the search for the gunman. Its all ahead on mornings on 2. We are live in sunnyvale, where a very active manhunt is underway for some carjacking suspects. These are live pictures of the scene right now. Ktvu fox 2s janine de la vega is there. Coming up in minute, she will tell us where police are con are concentrating their search. Welcome back to mornings on 2. Its thursday, march 12th. Im tori campbell. Good morning. Im dave clark. Lets talk about your weather and traffic. Steve is off today but were lucky to have mark tamayo here. Today were talking about dense fog. Watch out for a big dropoff off of visibilities. As far as the rain chances, we had the rain showers yesterday. Not the case for today. Watch out for lower clouds. Especially up in the north bay, novato, santa rosa, napa, dense fog reports up there. Here is a look at current numbers.
Repeating this lie, that the increase in cases is due only to an increase in testing. His own task force contradicts that. There is no question that the more testing you get, the more you will uncover, but we do believe this is a real increase in cases because the percent positivities are going up. Percent positivities. Thats the percent of people whose tests are coming back positive that means the infection is spreading. Its in the data. Today, the president goes to a celebration at mt. Rushmore. Thousands are expected to attend. No masks required and crucially, no social distancing required. That disconnect and his push to reopen, theyre not new, but he isnt pushing to reopen too early. But isnt pushing to reopen too early, how we got here. It would be nice to be able to open with a big bang and open up our country. I want to get it open as soon as we can. We have to get or country opened. We cant the country wont take it. The people want to get back. They want our country opened. I