Class Vincent Polanco is mourning the death of his father, gilbert, a san quentin prison guard, first admitted to the hospital in july, after contracting the coronavirus. Then on life support. Sergeant Gilbert Polanco died at Kaiser Santa Teresa at 5 00 sunday morning. Covid19 is a real thing. It takes peoples lives away, and my dad is one of those people, and he did not need to go at the age he was at. Reporter at 55 years old, vincents father gilbert, a san jose native, had wanted to become a prison guard after passing san quentin on a ferry ride in middle school. And he saw one of the guards there as a kid, and he waved at my dad, he literally waved at my dad, and he, like, theres all of these kids, too, but my dad knew that this man waved at him. Reporter after serving in the army and national guard, he worked at san quentin for 30 years. A crisis created after the Corrections Department brought in untested inmates from a prison in chino, where there had been an outbreak. Visible s
There is an onshore breeze, oakland airport, up to 18. Between the surface flow and west northwest areas and higher elevations, we get a little bit of a change here. The north bay temperatures, we look for 50s and 40s. Ellsberg is at 49. Can one is at 50. There are core readings today. Look for highs to be in the 60s and 70s, a little bit cooler and lynn. Highs today will come down a few degrees. It will be warmer on the weekend. Lets head over to sal. Lets see if anything new has popped up on the screen here, at 6 01 am. Is it still okay or is there something new . Everything is still okay. The traffic looks very good. We dont have a big backup at the bay bridge, which is where we look first. That is the first backup of the morning, usually. That matter th mateo bridge. We can show you the san mateo bridge looks very good. Traffic continues to look at all the way across. Lets go back to the headlines. Today is the day that the Trump Administration says a chinese consulate in texas wou
His miserable life in jail. Right now kpix at 7 00 and streaming bay area, the pandemic showing no signs of slowing down a california and a new record tonight for the deadliest day yet. Good evening, im Elizabeth Cook im ellen martin. Health officials reported 149 deaths in just 24 hours yesterday. That is up 23 from the previous high. California also saw more than 7000 new cases. For those who think that now people are getting it and no one is dying, that is very misleading. It is fundamentally untrue. Californias numbers are reporting, 7349 yesterday are testament to that point. Just how deadly and devastating this disease continues to be. San quentin state prison as one of the largest outbreaks in to take action. They want to see better conditions inside the prison and for more inmates to be released. This is not about oh, they did a crime, they are humans. You do not have the right to put lives in jeopardy. Nothing less than the worst Prison Health screwup in state history. People
Of this morning skies are nice and clear over berkeley, but if you head out towards the coast. There is a layer fog that you can make out right over San Francisco. That funny layer right up the coastline is going to help or coastal areas to stay nice and cool today in fact a little cooler than yesterday right up and down the pacific elsewhere, its just warmer weather ahead of us fog is going to strut right a stream over the bay a little bit later on like we saw yesterday youre likely to see a bit more of it in areas like san mateo its not going to last for long though for the rest of the bay area with skies really clearing out warming up pretty quickly this morning as for stormtracker 4 were nice and dry smooth drive into work if you have to do that this morning until you head to the coast where you may run into some coastal drizzle. 50s for current temperatures alongside the bay and up the coast. While 60s and even some 70s for inland valleys. Fairfield conquer double in livermore all
More about what happened. You can find the latest developments on our homepage of ktvu. Com. California could top 300,000 total cases when new numbers come out tomorrow. As of yesterday there were another 7000 new cases of the coronavirus statewide and 149 more people died. Thats the highest number yet. The death toll is more than 6700. In the bay area more than 32,000 cases have been reported. Thats an increase of about 1000. And 636 people have died, with 11 more deaths reported. Health Officials Say fraternities and sororities are to blame for a jump in the number of coronavirus cases at uc berkeley. The university is urging students to change their behavior, or plans to return to campus could change. Ktvus greatly joins us now. The parties have led to instances of secondary spreads and small household and gatherings. Reporter thats the biggest concern. The students would go to these parties, get infected with covid19 and spread it to their homes and communities. The university is s