Poke the bear. That mother lays it on the line for Governor Newsom. She says her son in san quentin deserves to be treated better. A covid19 outbreak at the prison is sending new fear through the loved ones of those incarcerated there. Good evening. Im kristen sze. Im larry beil. Lets get to the numbers. As of noon, 1,314 cases of covid19 at san kwenity. 629 just in the last 14 days and seven inmates have died from it. According to the Sacramento Bee the state Public Defenders Office wrote this to lawmakers and we quote, san quentins staff, especially medical staff, is simply drowning among the chaos. Underscoring the problem for san quentin and other prisons, today the World Health Organization acknowledging that the coronavirus may be airborne and people should avoid crowded places, close contact settings and confined and enclosed spaces with poor ventilation. Obviously thats not possible at san quentin. Reporter at san quentin prison, the lucky ones passed through gates, they return
Congressman john lewis it is just about 6 00 a. M. On sunday july 19th, good morning im devin fehely. Lets check out the weather with meteorologist darren peck. Another gloomy start it looks like . Im sure everybody remembers how saturday morning, was saturday looks the same as today. A couple of other views the scene from the roof of the bay bridge, that is an important one because it tells us these clouds have pretty much the entire bay, looking at the clouds until they burn out midmorning. Were not going to change things much at all, we range from 60 in most locations, santa rosa is 55. A couple of headlines, besides the gray start were going to e seeing hazy skies this afternoon mainly off to the east from a wildfire builder burning from the south. Were going to show you much more this hour. Cooler temperatures are coming back this week, but before we get to those cooler temperatures this week were going to repeat tomorrows, pretty much right on the mark for where we should be this
Are now seeing new cases rise. On a week to week basis and heres the map that we like to show you the gives you a snapshot of where the situation is right now in america, we have 8 states highlighted in red including california these are states where we seen new cases rise, 50 or more. There are 25 states that now have a 10 to 50 increase week over week and those are the areas that weve highlighted here in orange. In total, we have 3. 3 million infections and growing with more than a 135,000 deaths reported across the country gets a little floridas the worst of the worst of the outbreak there has now surpassed. New york ap as the covid hot spot for america in the bay area. More counties are going on the states watch list, new restrictions are in place in Sonoma County because they were added to the watch list because of a spike in infections infections. So starting today. There will be no more Indoor Dining at restaurants. And you cannot go inside bars there. This is for at least anoth
This weekend marks 50 years of pride in San Francisco, but coronavirus will change the way we celebrate them. Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 7. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on a saturday, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher we do want to start the hour with a check of weather before we get to the headlines and so lets say good morning to john trouble find out how foggy it is out there it was pretty dense when was late yeah i definitely does the wipers myself to that might have made all 3 of us very much so a foggy start to the morning, one of your worst visibility mornings at the so do watch your travel on bridges right now your view from alcatraz not showing you much, but that gray that is hanging out all across the bay area currently so as we make our way through the morning youre going to notice that fog will begin to lift right on top of that they did to bridge visibility is about to be improving. But as for the east bay hills and the coastline, its going
So, benicia bridge, carquinez bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge a little breezy this morning. Heres a look from sutro tower, sun rise this morning and the marine layer is a little more compressed than it was yesterday. Hopefully you get a little more sunshine if thats what you want. At the coast well hang out near 60 during your planner and 76 to 84 with that sunshine around the bay and inland. 82 to 91. Warm to hot at 4 00 and getting more comfortable at 7 00. 75 to 82. Im going to send it back to reggie now. Mike, thank you. President trump has signed a new ban on Foreign Workers here in the u. S. That ban includes a number of visas including the h1b visas used by Tech Companies. The Administration Says the ban will open up more than half a million jobs for americans out of work during the pandemic but others worry this will slow job creation in Silicon Valley. Amy hollyfield live in san mateo with reaction from tech leaders this morning. Amy . Not good. The ceo of this company here