Stating aess owners for help. Today they sidestepped congress and signed an executive order mandating the check. Not having any calls for anything like that. Family in this bay area and across the country are desperate for unemployment help. President called for new benefits but it may not be a done deal. It could face legal challenges. With that, good evening. The economy is one of the key things were focus on as part of our efforts to build a better bay area for all of us during this pandemic. And it has been a tough month for the unemployed the 600 weekly unemployment benefit expired on july 31st. Ppp, which has helped Small Businesses meet their pay roll expires today. Trump signed his plan after talks fell apart this past week. Reporter President Trump blaming democrats after negotiations collapsed friday. Democrats are obstructing all of it. Therefore, im taking executive action. Weve had it. And restarting Unemployment Benefits and cutting the checks to 400. And extending evicti
Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc 7 news. Its been really hard, not having a job and not being able to provide for my son. Unemployment uncertainty for area, and across tdeerate for he congress, but now President Trump announcing his own plan for new benefits, but it may not be a done deal. Good morning, everyone. Its sunday, august 9th. Im liz kreutz. Thanks for joining us. Were breaking down where the Unemployment Benefits stand and President Trumps new executive order on evictions but first, as always, lets start with a quick look at the bay area folks with meteorologist Frances Dinglasan in for lisa argen. Good morning, frances. Good morning, liz, good morning, everyone. We have another gorgeous day in store for with us plent y of sunshine right now. Were dealing with fog thick in some spots. Heres live doppler 7 and the satellite radar image, low clouds along the coast spilling into the bay, Half Moon Bay the visibility is down to one mile becaus
Frances. We have lots of sunshine this morning, dealing with morning clouds and fog. Live doppler 7 you can see the coastal clouds as well but the fog is thick in Half Moon Bay, visibility is limited down to one mile, petaluma down to five miles. Our day planner toward the bay bridge sunrise at 6 20, temperatures and its going to get hot there this afternoon n the mid90s. We may even see tripledigit heat in a few spots around the bay, near 08 degrees and at the coast, still mild because of the sea breeze in the mid to upper 60s. Sun sets at 8 08, a few mainor changes in the sevenday forecast, ill tell you about that coming up. Breaking out of San Francisco this morning, a twoalarm fire is burning at a multiunit complex near dubas park. The Fire Department shared this photo of the building on the corner of waller and caramelitas street. The red cross will be called for residents who are displaced. No unchryes reported and we have calls to the department for details about what sparked th
Here are the latest numbers broken down by county. This week. There have been nearly 400 new cases about a 4 jump. Santa clara and alameda counties both have more than 2200 cases reported the complete list of local covid19 cases can be found at our website kron 4 dot com. Tonight only 3 bay area counties have entered phase 2 in reopening their economies thats napa solano and sonoma counties. Starting monday, San Francisco and san mateo counties will begin easing into phase 2 and today marin county announced it will also move into phase 2 on monday may 18th the details on what that means will be released tomorrow. Alameda contra costa and santa clara counties remain in phase, one as the bay area begins to slowly reopen Infectious Disease experts are warning the coronavirus is not gone and people should continue to practice a Public Health directives that got us to phase 2. Kron fours gayle ong joins us now live with that part of the story gayle. And medical experts are cautiously optimi
Sent 266000 pieces of protective equipment to china. But i wont get into details to and fro on the sunday times story more details will be not so really simple. Yes why not going to get into the u. K. To foreign help did issue a statement later that day and every some eyebrows because its actually sounded like downing street spin offering a play by play reporter at the sunday times because one particularly interesting tidbit states that the equipment they provided to china was not from the pandemic stockpile and that china has since reciprocated our donation many times over between april 2nd of april 15th we received over 12000000 pieces of p. P. In the u. K. From china p. V. Becoming increasingly crucial to the whole Coronavirus Response here may be we dont have the real figures here maybe 20000 have died from grown over it why the briefing from downing street which has been there over the past few weeks against. It is a coming from Dominic Cummings well it does kind of seem like advi