Here in california . For the first time today we heard San Francisco city leaders admit that is plausible. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Abc 7 News Reporter is breaking down the latest numbers just coming in you to. A pretty jarring warning. We know cases are skyrocketing here in Southern California but to hear dr. Grant colfax admit we could reach a new york level crisis by late summer early fall is a real wakeup call. In San Francisco more than 5500 covid cases have been diagnosed. Today we learned whats being done to expand Testing Capacity. Wereng mak three marexpa. Reporter in an effort to curb covid testing backlogs across the city mayor london breed announced three main additions including 400 new testing slots at the embarcadero test site, two new mobile pop up testing sites one of which starts this week, and a third test site launching in august in the Southeast Side of the city. All of this will increase the citys Testing Capacity by 45 . Crucial help but getting te
In the wilderness for 40 hours, a hiker documents his wild ordeal. The new research on people who spend too much time on social media. What it really says about your personality. And from a new warning about a nationwide beer shortage to Martha Stewart like weve never seen her before, all the trending stories for your thursday morning. Good thursday morning, everyone. Dr. Anthony fauci says it is clear we are not winning the battle against covid19. Hes been called to testify next week on capitol hill about the response to this pandemic, and breaking overnight, word from washington that a cafeteria worker on the white house campus has now tested positive. Coronavirus deaths are on the rise in 28 states with record numbers in the south. There is some good news. The percentage of positive test results is leveling off or decrs. The mato of thisaggeri. W di virus. 12 of them in the same month. But we begin our coverage with the breaking news overnight from washington. This morning, a corona
Congressman John Robert Lewis at the age of 80. He passed from pancreatic cancer. Long receipt man lewis helped organize the 1963 march on washington and the 1965 Voting Rights match in selma, alabama. He was six main organizers including Martin Luther king junior of the washington march where he gave a speech at the lincoln memorial. Congressman louis often spoke of the importance of getting into good trouble. He represented georgia in the house of representatives from 1987 until his passing. Johnathan capeheart asked representative lewis what he would say to people who feel as though they have already been giving it their all but nothing changes. Lewis answered, you must be able and prepared to give until you cannot give anymore. We must use our time and space on this planet we call earth, to leave it better than we found it and now that need is greater than ever before. He will truly be missed. The San Francisco Unified School District is offering support to teach students from dist
Evaluation and realtime feedback, so thank you. Go ahead, Vice President lopez. President sanchez, i really appreciate your patience and your comments. In regards to these comments, im happy to hear that theres no restriction as far as the number that the state is requiring us to teach to be all online. Im looking forward to hearing what that looks like, but im also looking forward to hearing what the e. L. D. Or anything along those requirements are, given what we are required to teach right now, and how thats connected to the assembly bills. Its clear that we have to teach e. L. D. , that there has to be instruct specific to certain groups. I dont recall any specific minutes or hours requirement, so that can be a point of clarification. Every now and again, we check in with some friends and Capital Advisors for more guidance, so i can ask that question. But e. L. D. As called out is specifically not an option. So that would be included in the minutes that theyre required to learn . I
People confirmed to have covid19. Additionally, private hospitals must provide testing to a symptomatic workers in jobs with risk of exposure. The delays in testing cannot continue. They must step up to do their part. The main message is that we need everyone to do their part. We have to get this virus under control right now. We dont be have months. We barely have weeks. Every decision you make affects everyone around you. If you choose not to wear a mask when you go out, you are delaying reopening further. If you are going to a barbecue and acting irresponsibly you are preventing children from being able to return to school, forcing parents to stay home from work or miss shifts at the job because you are not taking basic steps. Most importantly, you are endangering peoples lives. We want to move with reopening. We know we are going to be living with covid19 for the next 12 to 18 months. What we all do matters. How we all respond responsibly makes a difference. We have proven that tim