Release program kron fours dan kerman joins us now live from San Francisco and dan as we understand it as many as 8,000 current inmates could be released by the end of august is that true. Thats right that is 1000 before the end of august now up to now weve seen about 10,000 inmates, according to state officials released this would be another 8,000 added to it and it would happen in less than 2 months. Of the more than 2300 current state Prison Inmates that are positive with covid19 more than half are at san quentin with more than 30 inmate deaths statewide so far the governor has announced plans to speed up the Early Release program and thin out the prison population. Under a new plan 8,000 debates could be eligible for release by the end of august with 4800 of those eligible before the end of this month and prison Officials Say no members of that group are violent or serious offenders are prisons are only supposed to hold 89,000 people. And they hold upwards of a 110,019 1000 people
News at 6. Now at 6 with the rapid spread of the deadly coronavirus and mounting pressure to protect california inmates from covid19 governor Gavin Newsome announces thousands of inmates could soon be freed from prison. Good evening. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im Justine Waldman now with covid19 racing through the state prison system. Governor newsom is taking additional action to slow the virus is spread by thinning out the prison population through an Early Release program kron fours dan kerman is live for us now and dan as we understand it has many of these inmates almost a 1000 of them could be released by the end of august. Thats right 8,000 by the end of august so far the prison population has already been reduced by about 10,000 add another to that and thats going to happen in less than 2 months. Of the more than 2300 current state Prison Inmates that are positive with covid19. More than half are at san quentin with more than 30 inmate deaths state
On the embarcadero about 2 miles away from where this fire is burning right now, San Francisco fire saying the flames are coming from a garage and i want to show you what crews are dealing with right now this is video just in to the kron 4 news room that a viewer posted on twitter you can see huge amounts of black smoke filling the sky and kron fours taylor sackey also nearby in the area and she shared this video on twitter as well we can see flames coming from behind those 2 victorian buildings and firefighters there on the stairs trying to lift that hose going into the back of the building actually gets stuck to sort of on the tire of the car thats parked there. The firefighter than us to go lifted up. Theyre trying to get the hose there into the back so they can get this fire out those orange flames, theyre very visible. In this video. Now there are no reports of any injuries at this time and we dont have any word right now on how this fire started i did hear from some kron 4 news v
Damaged because of this fire. Investigators are still determining where it broke out and how it broke out, several people are believed to be displaced tonight we still dont have those numbers and in terms of the amount of people but they will not be able to return to their homes. As firefighters are made on scene here if you take a look behind me. The firefighters had a number of ladders that were put up onto the roof areas of these apartment buildings that are really tightly knit together here on washington street. The flames were seen on top of the roof area also a lot of smoke that was seen by neighbors, but thankfully, no one was injured inside of these out in this again were still trying to learn how many people were there but a lot of people that saw the smoke say they were surprised and they were even more surprised once they saw the flames. Flames bursting up. It was quite spectacular and a tremendous outburst of black smoke. We have a smoke so from a distance or support a fire
Details straight ahead on the third hour of today in the bay as it continues right now. Good morning. Third hour because we get up pressing pause. The situation is bad in the bright and early or dark and health care crisis. Early, starting at 4 30 in the nearly three dozen states reporting new spikes in the past morning. 6 00 right now. Look at that, Smiling Faces all week. Around. Everybody happy its friday . The cdc warninthe true scope oh, yeah. Of the crisis may be drastically underestimated suggesting nearly friday, friday, bring it on. Im Marcus Washington for you this morning. 25 mmericans have covid. Mike is keeping an eye on that and a former Health Official says it may be too late. The time for prevention friday commute but we want to measures was a month ago. Talk about the friday forecast for you. Meteorologist kari hall has been tracking that and, kari, going to be warm moving into cooler now the wheels are coming off. The latest from across the temperatures this weekend.