Arraignment this week. Shes facing charges of allegedly luring young girls for sex. In pit lane, eight cars crashed as they came in to fuel up during nascars brickyard race. One crew member suffered a leg injury. The race was delayed about 10 minutes. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, july 6th. We do say good morning on this day after the Holiday Weekend. We do begin this half hour with the growing struggle to curb the coronavirus spreading across the country at an alarming rate. As infections surge from coast to coast, large crowds turned out to celebrate the fourth of july weekend with many people failing to wear a mask or keep their distance. And there are new figures on just how much people of color are disproportionately impacted by the virus. The New York Times reports that black and latino americans are three times more likely to be infected than their white counterparts, and nearly twice as likely to die. Abcs alex presha has more. Reporter as several states are
A San Francisco company is helping hundreds of thousands of families across california, including the bay area with a tool to protect themselves on the Coronavirus Fight kron fours Jonathan Mccall has details. It was back to school tuesday for students in pittsburgh. For the first time in months they return to campus but only to pick up the items left behind in their classrooms. But they do drive away with more than just pens and paper 2000 families also took home digital thermometers. District Officials Say the small devices will provide a big boost for families in the Coronavirus Fight these are really amazing thermometers they provide helpful tips. For our families and theres an app can next to the phone. To provide tons of information back to the families of these 2000 thermometers are just a fraction of the 400,000 being donated to School Districts across the golden state. For free. All courtesy of San Francisco based can to help the thermometer is especially in these very challen
Rosa this morning. As we head to the day we will see partly sunny skies. Mainly dry conditions for today but still below average for 60 in San Francisco 63 for concord. I will have more for what you can expect in your neighborhood. Lets check in with gianna for a look at traffic. Limited visibility, so, be careful if you plan on taking any freeways and or in the rth bay,we are dealing with some fog as well. That will affect your drive as well as 29 through napa, definitely could be busy through that area and as for Public Transit, both bart and muni are making more changes, due to the covid19 panama. The changes will come into a starting today and tomorrow. Jackson, fulton, 10,000, 20 when he is and 31, balboa line. The changes will be in effect. The changes coming in two waves starting today, we will have more information on the second wave of Service Coming up tomorrow. You can always find all of that information on our website at kpix. Com. Meanwhile, muni says five of employees hav
Guys. And thank you for being on top of this. No ones called our family, and my grandmother is going to be 85 years old. Something like this we should have been made aware of right away. It is a trying time right now because my grandmother is up in age. She doing well. She doesnt have a fever. Just the regular aches and pains a normal 85 would have. I have reached out to this facility to get more information. They have not returned my calls. The Health Department is only giving out the numbers here. The Health Department has notices up on the doors as well only allowing certain visitors. Now as to the time frame on when these patients had covid19, that is unclear this evening. I did talk with the Maintenance Worker here who didnt have any details about what happened, only saying that he has been wearing gloves and also a mask. It is important to note that we have been Wearing Masks out here as well, but have taken those off for this report. Well continue to follow this story and have n
Coronavirus. An east bay lab is playing a Critical Role in getting thousands more coronavirus tests to the public. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro live in pleasanton with the new developments. We could all use a little encouraging news, and you have some for us. Reporter absolutely. Boy, can we use some promising news, terry. Youre absolutely right. Im here at roche labs in pleasanton. Not only did this company develop a new coronavirus test, but it can deliver results in just 3 1 2 hours. This is the first commercially available coronavirus test to receive emergency authorization from the fda. Those tests can be run on roches fully automated machines, which are already installed in hospitals and labs across the u. S. And around the world. And those tests are headed to bay area and state labs right now. We already have 400,000 tests available. Weve started already to ship over the weekend and through the next few days to these laboratories, and then over the course of the coming weeks, we