This years b. E. T. Awards show featured artists gathered. As well as a performance by First Lady Michelle Obama as she presented beyonce with a humanitarian award. Those are some of our top headlines on this monday, june 29th. Happy monday, everyone. We do begin this half hour with the devastating new numbers on the pandemic. More than 500,000 lives have been lost worldwide, and more than 125,000 of them in the u. S. Alone. Some areas that reopened are now backtracking. Beaches across south florida will be closed for the july fourth weekend. The pittsburgh area is the latest to shut down bars. Cases are on the rise across much of the country with only two states reporting a decline in new infections. Abcs zohreen shah has more. Reporter this weekend, 10 Million People infected and more than 500,000 worldwide who have lost their lives to the coronavirus. In the u. S. , seven states breaking records this weekend, including florida with nearly 9,000 new infections. Broward county and mia
One College Football player announcing he tested positive after attending a demonstration as covid cases continue to rise in at least 16 states, plus, what could be good news for parents, what dr. Anthony fauci is saying about reonindme deadly flash floods. It now threatens the gulf coast from florida and louisiana as a ready storm sweeps across the northeast. Winds gusting at over 90 mile an hour. Ginger tracking it all. Drew brees backlash. I will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of america. The nfl star under fire saying he still doesnt support taking a knee during the National Anthem. In the wake of George Floyds killing the top players and teammas lashinonia a. The nba bouncing back. Powers in and finishes. Our favorite players planning a big return to the court. What the league is doing to keep teams safe and how disney world may be making the magic happen. Good morning, america. Thank you for joining us again in this tumultuous time. Thousands
More than 150 firefighters mobilized to knock down the fouralarm fire. Right now were doing whats called a surround and drown. So were getting this from all sides. Its too dangerous for our members to be in there. Reporter the first moments of this firefight, chaotic. In this video, you can see firefighters spraying down one of their ladder trucks. They placed their truck in a position to save the warehouse to my right, and they did that amazingly and historically getting heat impingement and damage to that fire truck. Reporter one firefighter on scene was injured with a serious cut on his hand and was taken to a local hospital. Fire crews did not attack the flames from inside the warehouse because several walls collapsed. On the other side of the pier, crews mobilized a fire boat dousing the flames, keeping them away from a popular floating museum, the ss Jeremiah Obrien. You can see fire crews are still dumping lots of water here. Thats one of the walls that collapsed. Check out how
Her refusal caught the attention of many including protest organizers who we spoke to early. Harvey littleman says i almost prefer it because i want to know where you stand rather than your propaganda of kneeling. I would rather us be honest about whether youre on the side of the people or whether youre on the side of police. Now the mayor took to facebook to explain because of their faith she will never kneel to anyone but god. And in the crowd right now, we did notice mei. Were hoping to connect with her as the day goes. But in preparation for the day, fremont pd said its added staffing to its patrol division. We are still expecting the citywide curfew to go into effect attic 00 tonight through 5 30 tomorrow morning. They say this is to prevent large scale looting, though there has been no credible threat. We are live here at Fremont Police headquarters. Im amanda del castillo, abc7 news. Amanda, thank you for that update. Also happening now, cars honking as the caravan for justice i
Of californians and bay area residents were hoping to hear was Governor Newsom saying we may see some of those things opening in a few weeks, things previously labeled a stage three, i think. So how do you feel about that . Well, im hopeful, but i want to be clear that we are, although coordinating with the governors office, we have to use the data here locally in San Francisco to make a determination as to whether or not we can move in any of those phases. In fact, i did a talk with the doctor at the department of Public Health really explaining the five criteria were going to be looking at to determine what phase we can go in. Right now, effective today, were in 2a. This allows us to open nonessential businesses for retail and manufacturing and warehouses with our social distancing. But 2b is a part of allowing people to go into some of those retail locations, and were not there yet. Phase three is the hair salons and churches and other places. And everything that we do has is contro