News at 6. Now at 6 with the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus and mounting pressure to protect california inmates from covid19 governor Gavin Newsome announces thousands of inmates could soon be freed from prison. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman now with covid19 racing through the state prison system. Governor newsom is taking additional action to slow the virus is spread by thinning out the prison population through an Early Release program kron fours dan kerman is live for us now and dan as we understand it has many of these inmates almost a 1000 of them could be released by the end of august. Thats right 8,000 by the end of august so far the prison population has already been reduced by about 10,000 add another to that and thats going to happen in less than 2 months. Of the more than 2300 current state Prison Inmates that are positive with covid19. More than half are at san quentin with more than 30 inmate deaths state
Hardest hit. Now younger people are making up the larger number ofpeople falling ill. Since the beginning 65of july of the cases are between the ages of 18 and 49. Domingo. E by skype is dr. Thank you for joining us. Reporter thank you. The age of affection is dropping drastically. Why is this . Is it related to reopt ing . Tis a great question. We see the average age of earlier in the pandemic was 65 years old. Now some reports are as low as 35 years old. We have seen the shift, it has gone down word there are probably two ways to think about is. We ask older people tostay home. We said you are more at risk for this type of infection. What wreopen peopledid stay home. It was the younger people that went out. They probably did oftwo types things, they worked, that is what we asked them do. They also had a good two time. The reason why the younger people, they are the people we said you can go out and helpus to reopen the economy. That is why they are at risk now. Reporter you enforce t
In fact you can see just how it is kind of hazy and t uer 50 at today. Rest of us not as comfortable because of the lack of breezes. Well hit 80 to 90. And well talk about how long the warmth that is above average will last coming up in the accuweather 7 day forecast. The Trump Administration making a big push to get kids back in the classroom. We want to reopen the schools. Everybody wants it. The moms want it, the dads want it. President hosted a round table discussion on how to safely reopen schools rioo princ udent re inved to th meeting. One sophomore says that she is ready to return. Or he is. It really means a lot just to be able to get back out and if means a lot to our emotional and Mental Health to be out there with our friends because a lot of us dont have that opportunity. Education secretary betsy devos is echoing the president s comments and slamming Distance Learning plans. And now some bay area educators are pretty concerned about this. One of the main areas that we are
And you can see that the sun is up and were at 54. Most temperatures in the 50s this morning. There are a few 60s around oakland and the east bay valley, so a touch warmer there. 80s and 90s inland with strong sunshine. High burn factor today. Well follow back into the 70s at 7 00, but it wont be quite a quite as cool and refreshing because of the breezes not being around. Well talk about how long the heat will last coming up in the accuweather 7 day forecast. The Trump Administration is making a big push to get kids back into the classroom. We want to reopen the schools. Everybody wants it. The moms want it, the dads want it. President trump hosted a round table discussion on how to safely reopen schools yesterday. A petaluma private School Principal and student were invited. One sophomore says that he is a lot just tourn. Be able to get back out, means a lot to our emotional and Mental Health to be out there with our friends. And bets city y devos is ech the president s comments and
Of firefighters here responding to this fire. It seems as though they have it under control yet you could still smell a lot of the smoke that was moving through the area here right now on washington street between franklin and gough huge presence behind me here as you can see theyre still working on spring out any sort of hot spots that are in the area here. Water continues to out run down the street from one of the hillier parts of the city here in pacific firefighters have been sort of moving out of this area but as you can see from earlier before a lot of viewers have been sending us and video of a what broke out here i just a short while ago a lot of viewers giving us different perspectives of not only seeing the flames shooting up from a down below at the ground level but also a number of people that were also sharing some videos of the smoke. From buildings that were next from what we understand this a fire broke out in a garage area. Right now its not being reported that there w