The once hardest hit county in the bay area is noticing a worrisome rise in covid19 cases. The covid cases at san quinten prison continue to surge. How it happened and what it means for the marin county hospitals. The 49ers are now flying a black lives matter flag at levi stadium. Some say weve come a long way, others say its not good enough. Temperatures on the rise tomorrow. Ill show you who will feel the heat. Abc7 news at 11 00 starting right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. Tonight, the coronavirus outbreak at san quinten prison is showing no signs of slowing. Right now, more than 10 of the prison population is infected. Kate larson spoke with officials who say they warned this could happen. Kate . Reporter dan, ama, over the weekend, there were about 100 cases at the prison. Then yesterday, more than 300 covid cases. And now today, according to data on the cdc website, 407 inmates and 47 Staff Members are infected, bringing the case
Particularly as our local Hospital Systems are threatened by being overwhelmed. Reporter mark lavigne represents marin county. There are 4,000 staff and inmates at san quinten, and the covid outbreak will likely top 800 people. If the Corrections Department planned ahead of time, if they had listened to Public Health protocols, we wouldnt be in this situation. I am concerned that Health Professionals dont have Decision Making authority at cdcr. Those that do may have mad bad decisions. Prisons are a setup for outbreaks off the bat. You have large numbers of people, very close confine sent. Reporter dr. Matt will sis the Public County Health officer. As soon as the pandemic began, one of the first concerns was reaching out to san quinten. We were told very clearly that this is not part of our jurisdiction. Reporter according to the department of corrections, san quentin was virus free until late may. Willis says the surge started after inmates were transferred from chino to san quinten
Stadium. And the first night of her bay area concerts. Good evening. Im greg lee. And im Cristina Rendon taylor swift took the stage at 8 00. She still has about an hour left of her three hour 44 song set list swifties have been posting about their eras tour experience all day from special moments on stage to the long lines outside for official concert merchandise, social media is chronicling the whole thing. Zac sos has been at levis stadium all evening. Were having fun and enjoying it in the parking lot hes received some friendship bracelets. He was texting me about what a good time he has been having. As you see some of these photos, i mean, we saw these lines stretching all the way around levis for hours. Some people camping out early, early this morning because they wanted to be first in line. Right. And then even yesterday, we saw fans lining up to get their merchandise. So this is many fans have described it as a once in a lifetime event and many of them paying the price for tha
Their customary friendship bracelets. Im going to step right into the camera again real quick because i want you to know that i now am an official swiftie fan. It says im electric. Im feeling electric. Many of these young fans, the young fan that gave me this bracelet showing up, theyre showing up here with their swifty dads, those dads who really just want to make their daughters days. I spoke with one of them just a short while ago. Take a listen. First concert, very first concert. And she loves it. Good fourth grade present for her. Very excited. I love her like spirit. So loving and just fun and just encompass this. All the things i kind of think are just amazing for being a woman and being a girl. So those fans, some of the lucky ones, they actually bought their tickets way in advance that dad bought them on ticketmaster ahead of time, only paid around 300 a ticket, which still quite a bit, but not as much as people will have to shell out. Now on the ticket resellers, they are goi
Is on to keep fire debris out of the water in wine country. Ktvus tom vacar joins us from petaluma where a company is making a key element to keep those toxins out. Tom. In order to prevent wholesale contamination of the watershed you need do something very important, which is what this factory is doing. You need to manufacture tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dams, called wattles, in order to prevent the watershed from being grossly polluted. Pretty much everywhere you look in the burn areas, you will see barriers placed around storm drains. They keep toxins from washing into the drains. That blocks debris flow into the storm drains and creeks. We are also adding compost rolls to add additional filtering to reduce the potential. Reporter nobody is sure what and how many toxins are in the ash but some think its a lot. We are planning to do Water Quality sampling to determine whats running off into our creeks and waterways. Reporter they will be looking for toxic heavy