Wednesday night im Jonathan Mccall as you just heard from governor Gavin Newsome california saw more than 12,000 new cases of covid19 in a 24 hour period. Its the highest number since the pandemic began. California now has more than 409,000 confirmed cases surpassing new york state for the most in all of the United States, new york state though still leads the country with 32,000 covid19 deaths, even though new york state has a population half of californians. Here in the bay area we saw more than a 1000 new cases of covid 1913 new deaths overnight. Tonight local leaders are continuing to call on the public to do their part to keep the virus from spreading. We need people to be responsible to keep their distance from others to avoid gatherings in to wash their hands. San Francisco Mayor london breed now urging folks to continue to Work Together to stop the spread of coronavirus today she announced new ways to make testing for the virus a priority for the city as kron fours michelle kin
The country. And now hospitals in the state say they are preparing to expand the number of available beds for covid19 patients as the surge in patients continues to grow kron fours reyna harvey is live now she is a live report with more on this rain. Marty good morning at a major concern for a lot of these hospitals now is running out of beds along with protective equipment for staffers to use now weve seen a surge in cases like you mentioned we a top new york a stark number for california and so now hospitals are looking at the data and typically when you see a rise in cases you also see an increase in hospitalized station rate so thats what hospitals are racing for right now, and its not just about the ppe its not just about the bad. They also are seen a decline or a shortage of trained qualified nurses that are able to help along with testing material so its a lot of concerns that they have. Now beds are used for other injured or sick patients, the size those who have the virus. Hos
Here it is the totality of issues. And Nothing Happened in the last week that was just that we came to a conclusion. We approached the mayor, she agreed to join with us and the timing is what it is that it says among the totality of issues with chief kirkpatrick decision to not follow the Police Commissions recommendation to fire the officers involved in the march 20 18 shooting death of joshua pollack. The federal monitor overseeing the Police Department made that same recommendation. Yes in that particular case. She that the direction of her own supervisor, the monitor. He nor did we think that was a good decision she says and a chief kirkpatrick 3 year 10 yearold pd also took a step back in terms of compliance with mandated Court Ordered reforms so as you may know the chief when she first came on board were down to 2. Items in monitors reports and we have been taken out of compliance in 6 additional so now we are at 8 we want to get out of it. But the point is is that were moving in
And continued to have their heads buried in their cell phone for some news of the robbery will change that. Sot 138 from no one grant the antioch bridge is still closed. Has been for much of the day after a bigrig crash. Problem started just after ten this morning. Two semitrucks crashed on the Sacramento County side of the bridge. One of the drivers had to be flown to a hospital with severe burns. You can see the aftermath of the crash with both trucks on the shoulder of the road. Its not clear when the bridge will reopen. catherine a toddler in the east bay is expected to make a full recovery after nearly drowning. It happened last night at a home in concord. Police say a 20monthold boy fell into a hot tub. Family members quickly rescued him and performed cpr until an ambulance arrived. The little boy was taken to the hospital where hes in stable condition. catherine happening now. The search continues for a missing 5yearold boy in southern california. Wh ose father has been arrested
catherine an audit of the university of california system has resulted in a troubling accusation against its administrators that they hid lots of money from the public. Californias auditor says top administrators hid 175Million Dollars from thepublic and lawmakers in a secret reserve fund. And they did it, according to the report, even while raising tuition and asking thestate for more money. The scathing report was released today. Saying that uc president Janet Napolitanos office created the undisclosed budget over four years so the money could be spent with little or no oversight. Napolitano denies the claim. She argues the true amount of money in reserve is 38 million. And says thats a modest amount to stash away for unexpected expenses. Meantime, lt. Governor gavid newsom whos also a u. C. Regent is angry aboutthe revelation. He says its outrageous to force tuition hikes on students while hiding secret funds. He wants recent tuition hikes to be reconsidered. grant the director of a