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Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 600AM 20240713

Some fog with 36 in napa and 41 by the delta. Much colder than we were yesterday especially in the north bay and were looking at not only the chilly afternoon today with the later sunrise and later sunset going for us. Well move into the 40s by 8 00 9 00 and with the clouds around, not a lot of warming out there today. Liz . Lisa, thank you. New details about the grand princess cruise ship off the california coast. Passengers were told late last night that they will be docking in oakland tomorrow. They were face told it will happen today. Mdia partner the east bay times reports the ship will dock in a terminal in outer harbor that is no longer in operation. Princess cruises sent out this tweet saying the logistics plan went into further review by the state and federal authorities and the ship will not berth in oakland sunday. It will now be monday, time to be determined. The ship has been circling off the coast with 21 confirmed coronavirus cases on board. We finally got our first view of it from shore, came close enough to be able to see it. The disembarking process will take several days, were told, and taking a look at the website marine traffic, it shows the location of the grand principle is circling off the coast, maybe 20 miles off the coast. Abc 7 News Reporter luz pena has more on what passengers who are on that ship have to say about the latest developments. Reporter the wait is over. Agreement has been reached to bring our ship into the port of oakland. Reporter 15 miles off the coast of pacifica, more than 3,500 people aboard the grand princess cruise ship are finally headed to land. The captain of the cruise ship confirmed that the 19 crew members and two passengers aboard the ship who tested positive for the coronavirus will disembark first. The people that have already tested positive will probably be the ones that will get off first. Anybody with medical issues. Anybody with medical issues. Reporter area residents marine and bill james are growing wary, along with thousands with the lack of information, stuck in their cabins, getting their food left at their door and having zero contact with Anyone Around them. During our call, a sign of hope, more supplies from another boat. We slowed down to almost a half a knot, and weve got to have, whatever the tug is that the miss tammy coming close to us. Let me go take a look. Reporter earlier in the day a passenger with a noncoronavirus medical emergency was transported by the u. S. Coast guard from the grand princess to San Francisco general hospital. As a growing concern of the virus crippled the ship, Vice President pence made this announcement. We reached an agreement with the cruise lin industry to further enhance entry and exit screening. Reporter thousands aboard finally have good news to look forward to. We will sleep well tonight. Reporter passengers who dont require acute medical help will go to a federal facility, we think california for testing and isolation. The crew members will be quarantined and treated aboard that ship. We had stay on top of this in the must room, luz pena, abc 7 news. Were learning the Northern California man who died last week was likely infected with coronavirus before he boarded the grand princess in San Francisco on february 11th. The chief medical officer of Carnival Cruises says the passenger sought medical treatment on the ship saying he had symptoms of a respiratory illness for about a week. The coronavirus has an incubation period of five to six days, so Officials Say it is likely the man was infected prior to boarding. 60yearold kari kolstoe is a cancer patient aboard the grand princess, she has stage our and is worried she wont make it home to start chemotherapy tomorrow. Gave me four radiation treatments and pain killer, and said go for two weeks, well get started when you get back on monday or tuesday, and so its still a worry that im not going to get back. I recently lost my dad, and i just believe hes up there going to fix this whole situation somehow, and im going to test negative and get to go home and get some treatment. Kolstoe who is from grond forks, north dakota, is with her husband, paul. Diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer 18 months ago, underwent chemo, and had her ovaries removed but the cancer returned and spread to her lower back. Our thoughts are with her. A former grand princess passengers in santa cruz countys first, is santa cruz countys first case of covid19. A test friday was confirmed yesterday morning. The passenger traveled on the cruise ship from february 11th to the 21st. Their name and hometown are not being released. Health officials are investigating any possible exposure with other residents. And new this morning, passengers on a carnival cries shup docked at the cruise terminal in the port of long beach. One passenger tested negative of the virus. The company says guests have been cleared to disembark now. The next Carnival Cruise to the mexicanry yes rah will operate as a sixday cruise, darting pod. San francisco has banned all nonessential group events in cityowned facilities for the net two weeks, that includes city hall, Moscone Center and its associated buildings like bill graham sufficientic a auditori auditorium. This comes as six more positive cases of the coronavirus are confirmed. All six are isolated at home in good condition. There are eight confirmed cases in the city but Officials Say they expect more. The virus is circulating in our community. We expect to get more confirmed cases. We have seen that in the state and in our region, and so this is not unexpected. The city of San Francisco received 1,000 test kits for covid19. The Public Health department are ordering more and not worried about running out. Even with the growing number of coronavirus cases, warriors fans still showed up to chase center for last nights game against philadelphia. Abc 7 Newser Ansar Hassan has the story. Reporter despite the warnings to avoid large crowds im a huge fan. Reporter dub nation came out to support their team, although many are taking precautions. Ever since 1997, you know, Antoine Jamison and john starks. Reporter eugene ramos knows several people tested positive for the coronavirus in San Francisco. The threat isnt big enough to keep him home but hes being safe. I want to take precautions just in case. Im not fullon paranoid but why not . Its our first time here in the new arena. Reporter lily and her two sons were pumped for their first game at chase center. She knows the advisory is to stay away from big crowds but she says her family is well prepared. Youre always taking a risk if you go outside in crowds, but yeah, more than anything were not sick so hopefully nobody else around us is sick. Well wash our hands and well take good precautions. Reporter signs were posted at the entrances to chase center advising people who are feeling sick to stay out. Inside, fewer fans than usual, coach kerr says a doctor spoke to the team about covid19. Its a concern, but were doing our job to come in and get ready for the game and play the game and the league will tell us what would be next. Reporter the nba is proposing to ban fans from games as the threat of the coronavirus grows. A proposal that isnt popular with many fans. If you want to be safe, stay home, watch the games at your house, but nba should not put a blockade or keep fans away from watching the games. Reporter in San Francisco, ansar hassan, abc 7 news. In the south bay, the San Jose Sharks also played as scheduled. They lost in overtime to the ottawa senators. On friday, Santa Clara County Public Health officials called for measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, including canceling large gatherings. The sharks said their planned weekend games would go on as scheduled. The team hosts the colorado of alarge tonight at s. A. P. Center. Oak Grove High School in san jose is undergoing a deep cleaning because a student had contact with a Family Member who has the coronavirus. The student has not exhibited any symptoms but has been quarantined and will be tested. Weekend activities at oak grove were either canceled or moved to another site. Santa clara county reported eight more cases of coronavirus for a total of 32 in the county, including a person who lives in gilroy. On thursday, gilroy firefighters responded to a call for a person with chest pain. That person was taken to kaiser in san jose and later confirmed to have coronavirus. Officials say the firefighters who had contact with that person are symptom free so far. And people in San Francisco got free tulips yesterday, but festivities were scaled back because of the coronavirus. Abc 7 news was in union square for flower bowl day, originally a garden was supposed to be set up so people could pick their own flowers but this year, volunteers handed out bouquets instead. And despite warnings about avoiding large crowds, plenty of people showed up for the White Elephant sale in oakland. The Oakland Museum womens board holds this event every year. The board says its the biggest rummage sale in Northern California and also runs today from 10 00 to 4 00. And we will have much more coronavirus coverage throughout the newscast this morning so stick with us here. Go to abc7news. Com coronavirus, where we have an entire page dedicated to related stories and information that you need to know about the illness. Well keep you updated over the next hour. Lisa, we were talking about the light possible showers were going to be seeing. Still a little unsettled the nix few days. It means a lot of cloud cover for most of you. Emeryville right now temperatures are in the upper 40s here and across the bay. So looking at the 30s up in the north bay, a colder start for them. Partly cloudy skies out there and we could see a few showers over the next couple of days, but consider yourself lucky if you get any sprinkles at all. Well warm up and feel springlike again. Thanks, lisa. Back on the campaign trail the next round of the primaries joe biden and Bernie Sanders are focusing on and why Tulsi Gabbert says they should make sure shes included in the next debate, plus an endorsement from kamala harris. And rocking the casa. Rick bring field helps. Doesnt mean you got to spend a lot because dennys brought back the super slamâ„¢. With eggs, hash browns, bacon, sausage and pancakes. All for just 6. 99. The 6. 99 super slamâ„¢ is back see you at dennys welcome back. A celebration of life was held for nasa mathematician and pioneer katherine johnson. Her funeral was at the Convocation Center in virginia, she died more than a week ago at the age of 101. Johnsons precisely calculated trajectories put the first man into orbit for the u. S. In 1962 and first man on the moon in 1969, did all this being one of three dozen africanamerican women working for nasa at the time. Johnson helped inspire the 2017 oscar nominated film hidden figures. Your voice, your endorsing former Vice President joe biden. I believe in joe. I really believe in him and ive known him for a long time. One of the things that we need right now is we need a leader who really does care about the people and who can therefore unify the people and i believe joe can do that. Senator harris posted the video to twitter. She dropped out of the president ial race late last year. Biden at the top told reporters hed consider as a potential running mate. Senator harris will join biden in detroit tomorrow night for a joint rally on the eve of the allimportant michigan primary. Biden and senator Bernie Sanders are battling it out. Concentrating on midwestern states with primaries this tuesday. The only woman remaining Tulsi Gabbert says shes staying in the race. Yuni han reports a rule changed by the dnc will prevent her from participating in the next debate. Reporter with the next round of primaries set for this coming tuesday, the Democratic Candidates and surrogates are out on the campaign trail this weekend. He thinks hes going to win reelection by dividing us up. We are going to beat him because were bringing our people together. Reporter vermont senator focusing on the midwest speaking to supporters in michigan. All over this country, people are asking themselves which candidate can best defeat trump. I have zero doubt in my mind that together, we are the campaign that could beat trump. Reporter the traditional battleground state has the most delegates up for grabs on tuesday when voters in six states head to the polls. Senator Amy Klobuchar is also in michigan lending her voice to former Vice President s joe bidens campaign. She dropped out of the race before super tuesday and then endorsed him. We are going to build a beautiful blue wall of democratic votes around the midwest and we are going to make donald trump pay for it. Reporter former secretary of state john kerry also campaigning for the former Vice President. This man smiling at you from both sides, i know him well. He has the ability to get this done. Hes going to be the next president of the united states. Reporter biden continues to ride the momentum after winning ten states on super tuesday. His Campaign Raising 22 million since tuesday. Senator sanders likes to say hell need a record turnout to defeat donald trump. Hes right. And were the campaign thats going to do that record turnout. Reporter hes also racked up endorsements from eight of his former rivals. Last female candidate in the race, hawaii representative Tulsi Gabbert says shes staying in the race despite no viable path to victory. A rule change by the Democratic National committee will exclude her from the next debate in phoenix march 15th. Shes calling on the two frontrunners to stand up for whats right and help her get on the stage. Yuni han, abc news, new york. Coming up on this week abc news chief anchor George Stephanopolous talks with senator Bernie Sanders ahead of the next contest in the primary race, watch that full interview on this week at 8 00 on abc 7. We have an update on the can collector who was attacked in San Franciscos bay view neighborhood. The Community Youth center of San Francisco shared this picture with us here of organizers meeting with the victim. They say a go fund me drive to help him and his family has raised nearly 70,000. Two suspects were arrested in the case, one of them is not being charged for now but will be placed in a Restorative Justice program. And abc 7 news is committed to building a better bay area. One of the issues that were focusing on is housing. There is an effort to speed up the construction of Affordable Housing in california. State senator scott weiner introduced a bill to ease zoning restrictions, clear the way for nonprofit hospitals and faith institutions to build Affordable Housing units on their property. Weiner has tried three times to pass legislation to create more housing in california. Safety is a part of building a better bay area. In marin county, a measure that would provide millions of dollars every year for wildfire prevention is narrowly passing. Measure c needed a twothirds majority since it is a tax, currently getting just over 68 . There are still several thousand votes that need to be counted. The registrar of voters says it could be two weeks before there is a final tally. We want to hear your ideas about building a better bay area. Share them by joining our better Bay Area Group on facebook. In the east bay, abc 7 news anchor dan ashley rock the casa Charity Center was held in wall net creek last night. 8675309 8675309 the Foundation Raises money for children in need. Rickspringfield headlined last nights show, the foundation expected to raise tens of thousands of dollars last night to Fund Programs that help children in the community. For more information go to rockthecasa. Org. Fun might all around. Wish you could have joined, lisa but we were probably going to bed early because of the time change. Thats right, liz. Feeling it right now. Good morning, everyone. Live doppler 7 you can see activity well to the south of us. We have another system thats going to drop south of the bay area, bringing better chances of rain to san jose. They picked up over a quarter of an inch yesterday and the rest of us less than that. Still was pretty good to see the rain out there. There is that next system and its going to keep the shower chances going. For points south of san jose tomorrow into tuesday. It is 47 in oakland. 36 in novato. 33 santa rosa. So a cold start out there with a little bit of fog from petaluma to santa rosa. The cooler air mass in place after the passage of yesterdays cold front and with that about twomile visibility santa rosa, a quarter mile in petaluma. Here is the airport, san jose cloudy and cool today. A chance of showers through tuesday but its going to be well south of San Francisco and looking at a sunny and warmer m

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