Warning of a second wave of coronavirus and this comes as all 50 states are starting to move back to prepandemic life. Jobina fortson is at the live desk with details on this. Jobina . Thank you, kumasi. Dr. Redfield is saying it is very likely there will be a second wave of the coronavirus. He is pointing to the cooling temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere and the spike in cases there. Hes not ruling out a second lockdown either. He does say the cdc is committed to using the time that we have right now to get the nation as overprepared as possible. Dr. Anthony fauci is encouraging americans to take precautions. As you open up, even under normal circumstances in the best of circumstances, you are going to see infections. The critical issue for a successful opening is how effectively you address those blips. A big part of fighting covid19 are antibody tests to protect consumers the fda has come up with a list of 27 tests that it views as problematic and they have that posted on their
George floyd. Here is an update from emoryville. Reporter it was a day of looting here in elf ryville. This best buy was hit up quite badly. Looters broke open that metal gate. Were talking about hundreds of looters going in and running out whitmer chan guys, expensive items like tvs, cell phones and laptops. It took a little while for the Sheriffs Department and Police Department to gather enough officers to come in and push them out, but once they were pushed out of best buy, they went to home depot, ulta, they went to ashley Home Furnishing store and once the deputies went there, they went and vandalized stores and loots some of the stores there. When the officers got there, they went across the street to another shopping center, ross, marshal, sprint, joseph a. Bank and all of those stores were vandalized. People were running out with merchandise with products. They were running out with boxes and boxes of liquor, alcohol and wine. It was a freeforall. It was every time the cops ch
County will join the rest of the bay area on friday as the bay area begins the next step there are still more than 11,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 390 deaths here are the latest numbers broken down by county, sam, a tail San Francisco, marin sonoma and napa counties have all reported new cases today, but no new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours. For a complete list of local covid19 cases head over to our website kron 4 dot com at least for now most bay area jurisdictions will follow the same guidelines in terms of slowly winding down the stay at home orders and reopening the economy the last area holdout on opening the door to face to Santa Clara County. But word on that changed today kron fours justine waltman live in our newsroom right now with more just a. While panels of the countys move forward Santa Clara County Health Officials said that there were no plans to ease restrictions but that changed today. And it will now allow Small Retail Stores to offer Curbsid
Part of californias phase 2 those decisions and announcements have led to a little bit of confusion and some frustration by this time next week just about all the bay area counties could move into phase 2 of reopening sonoma napa and solano counties are already in phase 2 on monday, the 18th San Francisco marin and san mateo counties will join in phase 2. And today we learned alameda and contra costa counties are in the process of deciding when phase 2 will start Alameda County says it anticipates moving into earlystage to next week. Contra costa county will decide on monday so while San Francisco marin and san mateo counties are starting face to monday for now contra costa and alameda counties are holding back. Health officers and both of those counties say they will likely reopen early next week but they have not set a date just yet kron fours michelle kingston has more. Its pretty difficult to her side story as early as her theres no sidewalk jim and sandy rowdy on a small yarn shop
Very popular spot for wineries and restaurants and she has more for a scale. Sonoma county not met all criteria to move past the states, not timeline but county leaders here they believe the science proves otherwise. 18 counties in california got the green light from governor Gavin Newsome to further ease covid19 restrictions Sonoma County is hoping to make that list the criteria is not the ballot by a u. S. Scientist or a doctor in the cdc. Developed by the state according to the governor to of the criteria to pass the states timeline must have no deaths from covid19 in 2 weeks and just one new case per 10,000 people for 2 weeks while the county has not met those criteria. They believe a request to further relax restrictions is reasonable because sonoma counties infection rate remains low youve been so conservative. In terms of our approach and keeping sheltering in place and froing down or businesses and then we very few infections because of that last week phase 2 of the states guid