Appear today on capitol hill. This is to contain the brush fire offfreeway. Suddenly in a matter of two this is in bel air. Days San Francisco restaurants you may be familiar with that can reopen for outdoor dining. Area. Its the opposite side of the the surprise announcement that freeway as the getty center, at has some chefs pulling out all the stops not to mention some least 50 acres burned since special recipes. The third hour of today in the bay continues right now. Midnight. No homes evacuated. Firefighters have now stopped the fires progress. And a good wednesday morning this is the third fire in that to you. Thanks for starting your morning same area over the past two right here with us. Im marcus washington. Years. The likely democratic and im laura garcia. Good to see you, everybody. Good to be back. President ial nominee joe biden will continue his conversation on Racial Injustice today. Warmer temperatures. Hes holding a virtual town hall better find a cool place to eat tod
Wednesday is over 5,300. While its a slight dip, it is the second highest daily total for the state since the pandemic began. Governor newsom began his press Conference Today reinforcing a family message. Were still in the first wave of this pandemic. We are not in the second ve. A wave that is clearly growing. 56,000 new covid cases reported in california in just the past two weeks. And in the last two weeks, a 32 spike in new hospitalizations. Lets break it all down. More than 5,000 cases reported on monday. Jumping to more than 7100 on tuesday. Dipping to 5,300 on wednesday. What exactly is causing the increase . Yes. The cases have gone way up. But a lot of those are outbreaks and some of it is just more efficient case finding. This is the ucsf leading epidemiologist. He explains the latest spikes indicate cases identified within the last five days. So these are from reason exposures, maybe as reason as last weekend. These are not part of the protests. I can tell you that. And thes
Washington, d. C. Where the city has renamed part of a street that leads to the white house black lives matter plaza. Organizers painted those words in huge yellow letters on the pavement. Also this morning, welcome economic news. 2. 5 million americans went back to work in the month of may and the unemployment fell. It did not rise. Unemployment fell. Lets turn to business and tech reporter scott mcgrew. Scott, you were astonished at these numbers, so much so, you said they were blockbusters, is that right . Reporter thats right, i may have thrown a banana bananase as well. Good morning, chris. Weve seen such bad indications leading up to today. President trump held a press conference in the rose garden this morning. Who can blame him, this is something to celebrate across all parties. The president does not get jobs numbers early, he has no influence over this, its from the bureau of labor statistics. Apparently he was watching cnbc with the rest of us as those numbers came out. And
Force and antibias policies to develop a comprehensive policing plan. It is a critical step to build trust. Reporter trust that has been long eroded. We will be focusing on training, policy and transparency. In line with National Standards and best practices and current and emerging resources. He shot Sean Monterrosa outside of this walgreens store. Police said it 18 year veteran fire to a police car window after mistaking a 15 inch hammer in his sweater for a gun. His family said he was kneeling and surrendering. But he was in a Half Kneeling position as if he was getting ready to shoot. The chief said he welcomed the review and said in part, the biggest steps are ahead of us and i welcome all voices to the table. It absolutely needs to reform. It is the worst department in the area for how it abuses the citizenry. A civil rights attorney whose office represents Sean Monterrosas family has sued Vallejo Police many times. From my point of view its about time. Hopefully it will save liv
Apart or they must have some plexiglass between them. Provide hand sanitizers and employees and customers need to wear face coverings. No preset table settings. No table linens will be there waiting for you. They must be transported in a sealed bag. Also get ready to see disposable menus and that is also going to be new and that will see when we are allowed to eat out. We dont know when that will be. Local officials have not said yet when this will take place in the bay area. Reporting live in walnut creek, abc7 news. Thank you, amy. Oakland has joined l. A. And San Francisco in passing an emergency sick leave policy and heres more of what were learning. East bay times reporting that the City Council Unanimously approved the legislation yesterday. It requires employers with more than 500 employees to provide 80 hours of paid sick time off for front line workers, if they are exposed to covid19. The measure also applies to workers not classified as fulltime employees such as uber and lyf