Hop Health Officer abruptly resigned. I try not to have personnel conversations in public. I dont know that it serves the larger good. At the end of the day, he buck stops with me. Im accountable. Reporter the governor saying testing is one of the governments top priorities, and said there are encouraging signs that the number of coronavirus cases is slowing from the rapid increases we saw in july. Encouraging signs, but not the kind of stability and long term decline that we ultimately need to get to where everybody wants to go. For now, dr. Erica pan, previouslyiously alameda countys top Health Officer is the states top Health Officer. In San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. In washington, President Trumps Coronavirus Briefing was interrupted this afternoon by secret Service Agent who asked the president to leave the room. The briefing had just gotten started when the agent came in and spoke to the president who quickly followed him out of the room. We later learned ther
Russia is the first country to register our coronavirus vaccine. Many are skeptical before phase 3 trials. They normally last for months and involve thousands of people. Moderna just started phase 3 trials last week. It will involve 30,000 adults at 89 clinical locations around the country. President trump was escorted from a meeting. Theres a Financial Relief bill. A busy 24 hours in washington dc. Briefing after a man threatened to shoot agents outside the white house gates. He rented them and pulled something from his clothing in the shooter stands. He was shot and taken to the hospital. He was found to be unarmed. It is scary that people shovel he tore the president. Reporter the president resumed briefing the press about relief bill talks. The president is willing to meet with Democratic Leaders at the white house or on capitol hill. Congress waits to pass something, this growing uncertainty for americans struggling to pay bills, and businesses trying to dig out from months of shu
Shares in Germanys Thyssenkrupp surge after theyre set to buy them. They go wild for hasboros purchase of pep pa pig at a huge premium. And g7 leaders prepare to meet in france with the summit unlikely to end with a formal communique for the first time in its 44 year history fed chair Jerome Powell is set to address the group at jackson hole later on today. The fomc minutes released this week showed members remained divided over a decision to lower rates by a quarter percentage point but policy makers agreed that the move should not be seen as a signal that rates are on a preset course. Now this morning in europe were seeing stocks move higher as investors await this key speech from the Federal Reserve chairman at jackson hole we have the ftse 100 up 0. 6 the dax up a third of a percentage point and the cac and the italian index also moving higher and in italy were all watching Political Developments there. The president has given the Political Parties until tuesday to try to get toget
Before 5 p. M. Instead of Tuesday Morning at 5 a. M, which is excellent for the commute, caltrans says crews worked nonstop since the westbound lanes shut down at 9 p. M. Thursday. A big resurfacing project that stretched some three miles. Thats awesome. Theyre working. Theyre kicking butt. Jessica rays of vallejo was happy to hear about the early opening. She says her husband was caught in the detour delays all weekend. I think hes been like at least 20 minutes late to work each day. Other drivers were also relieved that the drive will be shorter and smoother for yeah, i am living in vallejo. My company is in benicia. Normally it takes 15 minutes when you use the highway, but last time i spent two hours along with repaving and landscaping, caltrans was also able to repair the lights that had been out due to a fire three years ago. Our Electrical Maintenance teams went in and they literally went to every single light bulb on that bridge and replaced the fixtures, the beautiful lights r
rob live the prosecutions closing arguments took all day and will continue tomorrow. The defensewill be next. Steven clark expects the jury will need plenty of time to consider the evidence as a group before reaching a verdict. If convicted, Garcia Torres faces the death penalty. Live in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news vicki sierra lamars family and their supporters have waited five years for some sort of closure. grant Catherine Heenan is here to take us through the case from the beginning. catherine its been a long, slow search for justice. With no body ever found, investigators had to rely on forensic evidence to link the defendant to sierra lamars disappearance. Natearly morning on a lonely rural road in morgan hillthis is where sierra lamar disappeared on march 16th, 2012 she was headed for the School Bus Stop just a few minutes walk from her home. That evening her mother got an automated call from the school that her daughter was absent. Marlene lamar insists her daughter is no