Abby a east bay and this compressed ma lean lair looking to burn back to the coast allowing for a warmup around the bay and inland. Low to mid 90s inland. By 4 00 still some 80s around the bay. Cool, winds pretty gusty at the coast with 60s there and if the warmup lingers into the second half well talk about in a few minutes. Liz. Lisa. Thank you. California has passed the half million mark in coronavirus cases. More than 8,000 reported in just the last day and this morning an east bay doctor is not holding back. Forcefully saying it is time to take the virus more seriously. Our rights to not wear a mask. That [ bleep ] is gonna kill us. Nationwide, july was the worst month so far in the pandemic. Nbc News Reporter indicate lars has more on that doctors outrage. Grocery clerk should not to fight a grown man to wear a mask. That is not their job. Our rights are going to kill us. Reporter dr. Desmond carson was deadly serious at a contracost county press conference about the pandemic. We need the National Guard to come out to tell these fools who dont wear to wear a mask, that you are going wear the mask or you are going to go home. Reporter there are now two and a half times the number of people hospitalized in the county compared to the beginning of the year. Dr. Jake mcdowell treats sick and dying every day at a hospital in stockton. I would encourage people to use a mask. Reporter but what about bringing in the National Guard to enforce it . I wouldnt be thatstream. Reporter another idea is a Youth Ambassador Program for 1525yearolds here in costa county. I wouldnt. I wouldnt even waste my time. Reporter even though it is advice some teens could clearly use. This 15yearold resident is not so sure the strategy will stick. Lot of youngsters like me, lot of dont watch the news and all that. Dont look at our case and all that how it is inclining. Lot of people just kind of forgot about it. Indicate lars, nbc 7 news. A new video share shows several bus loads of people dropped off at biju park witho masks. No one social distancing. Reporter no regard for residents. Thats how South Lake Tahoe neighbors are characterizing the behavior of this crowd captured on sunday. From my Vantage Point it only seemed about maybe 40 or 50 pstill a lot. But as we got closer and after the video, i saw three full buses and i would estimate about 180 people. Reporter separately and standing much closer, recorded this sea of kids. No social distancing in sight. There was too many of them not wearing masks, taking the proper precautions to safely do whatever they were doing. Reporter says he spoke with Group Members and learned this was a church event. Around. I asked where they were from. The girls talked and responded they were from redwood city. Reporter we reached out. Redwood city says it is conducting additional targeted outreach to help stop the spread of covered. Saying in part we continue to urge the community to remain vigilant against the deadly virus by following all social distancing and Health Safety precautions. Abc7 is working to independently confirm where the group came from and why they were in south lake. We dont really care what kind of event it was. It was irresponsible. Reporter Communications Director says the city was only made aware of the crowds once video was posted to social media. He says during the a Global Pandemic everyone plays a part, including acting responsibly and also reporting violations. For the most part its worked here but not everyone is following the rules and we saw that. Reporter he says the city recently launched volunteer effort to hand out masks and educate locals and visitors. Amanda del castillo abc7 news. Health officials are confirming the first covidrelated death of a teenager in california. The persons name and age are not we leased but they got treatment at valley Childrens Hospital i madeira. Health officials add the patient had Underlying Health conditions and felt as alameda koempbt koet majority of cases are under the age 50 and many of them teens. It is something something that can effect younger adults and young people. They can pass it on and bring it home to families and households. Alameda is also reporting the highest number of hospitalizations since the pandemic began with more than 200 people. And right now hospitals only have 2530 of icu beds available. We know how this virus as well as disproportionately targeting latino communities and this mornings new word and the mission had not enough tests to go around. Mission local reports the site ran out of tests three hours early the first day and five ar. Gany workers who wanted to get tested could not. San Francisco Data shows latinos account for nearly half of the cities confirmed cases with 49. 6 . And in the north bay Sonoma County says it is offering Antibody Testing to school employees, teachers, assistants, principals, administrative staff and custodians all eligible to take the test. Antibody test category determine whether you had covid19 in the past and now have the antibodies to fight the virus. Although the county says a positive test is not necessarily prove immunity. And every bay area county is now on the states watch list. San mateo is the newest addition. Indoor gyms and salons expect they have to shut down today. And tracking every county to see whether its made the watch list and how long its been there. You can check out this interactive map on answer 7 news com. Abc abc7news. Com. This video has gone viral. Luis pena spoke to neighbors who are calling this a racist attack. If you want to do this in some other neighborhood, fine. This is my house. This is a heated altercation between two neighbors that has now gone reporter she says she was trying to figure out who had been erasing the word black from her black lives matter chalk sign. If you disagree, thats fine. But dont damage what was written on a sidewalk in front of someone elses home. All you have to do is just keep walking. Reporter her Video Surveillance caught her neighbor pouring water on her signs. I was upset because it wasnt the first time it happened. Reporter she wanted to teach her 3yearold daughter about the movement and says she wasnt ant phagof anticipating for anyone in her neighborhood to retaliate against them. R exth like this. Reporter explained the reasoning behind his actions. I was only pouring across the black becausie i believe all lives matter. I dont care what nationality, sexual orientation, any of that. Were all human beings. Reporter as to others calling him racist . No i am not a racist. And the only reason i did that was because i thought someone was tag his house because racist thoughts. Reporter the altercation has now been viewed more than 40,000 times. And now other neighbors are also writing black lives matter on their sidewalk across this neighborhood. In concord, luis pena, abc7a, a7 news. Hakeem Browns Office was vandalized by a racial slur. Police are investigating as a hate crime. And borown is asking the community to join him this morning at 10 00 to show vallejo is is a place of understanding and not hate. And when it comes to social injustice and racial equality. Go to abc7news. Com take action to find a list of local resources. Mayor breed is proposing a budget cut to the San FranciscoPolice Department and sheriffs office. Redirected from Law Enforcement o addressing disparitiesn black community. That includes things like housing, Workforce Development and education. I want black boys growing up today to thrive. Because we chose to change how this city and how this country treats our young black men. Not as a statistic or an inevitable tragedy but as an important part of our cities future. Chief Williams Scott said in a statement while the cuts are significant they are cuts we can absorb and will not diminish our ability to provide essential services. We keep saying it. Lisa. But august 1st. Here we are. Already. Yeah thats right. Another flip of the calendar. And weve got a warmup in store for the first weekend of august. 90s return to the inland valleys. From the east bay hills camera. Sunshine in the cities of concord, livermore well into the 60s. Foggy still at the coast and it will get gusty. Accuweather 7 day forecast is next. Lisa thank you. A onetwo punch as the east coast braces for a hurricane expected near florida this weekend. It is hard to e hi. Whats on your mind . In. Can you help keep these guys protected online . Easy. Connect to the xfi gateway. 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Here is a live look from our Golden Gate Bridge camera. 61 degrees right now in San Francisco and clearly quite foggy and hayes out there this morninzy out there this morning. Developing news this morning. Florida facing a double threat right in the middle of a deadly pandemic. Hurricane e over night. Reporter overnight slamming the caribbean and moving towards the east coast of the u. S. Battering the bahamas, packing powerful winds over 80 miles per hour. Heavy wind and dangerous storm surge. In puerto rico, isais damaging homes and knocking out power for thousands. Leaving neighborhoods across the lined under water. Flash floods and mud slides through the streets. The National Guard saving children, including this newborn caught in the floodwaters. In the Dominican Republic turning deadly. Hurricane gaining strength and taking aim at the epicenter for coronavirus cases, florida. They just signed an executive order to declare state of emergency in every coastal county of floridas east coast. Reporter residents racing to prepare by stocking up and boarding up. Americans up and down the east coast preparing for isais in the midst of a Global Pandemic. North carolina declaring a state of emergency, propertying evacuations. But most shelters remaining closed due to the virus. And the storm also forcing coronavirus test sites to close down. Our sites because they are outdoors with tent. You know, if it were to get 40,ish 50 miles an hour winds, it would just collapse. Reporter abc7 news. And closely following developing news out of Southern California this morning. Brand new updates in the fastmoving brush fire thats forced about a thousand people to evacuate homes in riverside county. Hours ago. Cal fire says the apple fire in Cherry Valley is now burning nearly 2,000 acres with zero containment. Flames burning dangerously close to homes and one home has been destroyed. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Happening today is back to business as normal forn the south bay. Fairs start back up again for buss and trains. The fares were paused for more than four months with the stayathome orders and they have made safety improvements. Flex glass partitions between passengers and bus drivers, so frontdoor boarding can resume. They recommend downloading the ease fair app or a clipper card to pay. Issue may be most medial for cal train. The train system one step closer to be shut down for good. The chronicle reports against the sales tax measure to likely fund and save cal train carrying just 5 of normal passengers. Boards need to vote by friday to get the proposal in front of november voters. Covid19 asymptomatic or mild symptoms making it hard to pinpoint the origin. A new testing kit can track whether it is present on surfaces. We dig into the pros and cons. Reporter lab tick in additions working inside San Francisco bays Biotech Company are working around the clock to process surface detecting kits to detect the presence of covid19. It is not a human diagnostic test. It just indicates whether or not you have people that are carrying the virus indoors. Reporter each kit comes with between 10 to 25 swabs. You take each swab, brush the top of any surface and send the samples back. We process every sample and assess whether or not the virus that causes covid19 is present in the sample and then you can have a comprehensive view of where in your building sarscov2 was present. What is the turnaround time. 48 hours once the kit gets back to the head waters. Reporter according to their data, 2050 of samples taken in various retail shops and Grocery Stores across the bay area have tested positive for the virus. We all spend more than 90 of our lives indoors. So we need to understand if without even knowing it were transmitting the virus. Reporter a professor of medicine at stanford who specializes in Testing Research is skeptical of this strategy. The potential downwards is that it could give people or companies sort of a false sense of security. There are still people coming in and out of the building that are shedding virus, whether they are symptomatic or not. Dr. Wins low also pointed out the Science Behind environmental surface testing for covid19 is not valid yet. We know that even directly testing human beings has a false negative rate. So the sensitivity of testing environmental surfaces has to be much must have lower. Reporter while the false negative rate could be lower, surface test category still be valuable. Just proceed carefully with the negative test. In San Francisco, stephanie sierra, abc7 news. Fascinating. Happening now a event to get parents and families extra help for back to somebody school season. The samaritan house is handing out backpacks full of School Supplies. Just standard at the San Mateo Event Center at 9 00 until 1 00 as a much needed boost for those who know School Shopping is even harder this year. And lisa, i told you i was at the store yesterday and saw the long line of School Supplies and i thought, it is already that time . How are we there already . I know. Next couple weeks for the kids here. And yeah. Going toot another month getting to the second half of the year. Right . Good news because 2020 hasnt been that kind to us. Good morning everyone. As we look at live doppler 7. This picture showing you the fog working back towards the coast, burning off but we still have some here in the east bay. Also down around hayward. And fremont. Evaporating quickly today as drier air works in from the upper elevations bringing relative humidity down as temperatures really heat up as we get into our east bay valleys. Want to get you up to date on the hurricane but first you can see all that fog here. So it is really not going anywhere, the fog. It will be back and in fact it will deepen and bring cooler weather for the week ahead. Check out the bahamas, where the hurricane has moved over northern andros island. Drier area moving in. We have some wind shear but it is going to merge into the warmer waters right here so once again well still be looking at the impacts along the east coast of florida, as well as the kairnls. So todaycarolinas. So today you are going to be looking at storage surge over five feet in florida and alsora. Possible flooding and tornados. And here is a look at the outer bands already affecting miami. You can see how ragged it got, the hurricane as it moved over the bahamas. But this very warm sea surfac temperature allowing it to hold together as a category 1 as it skims florida. Here is a look at a sunny san jose. 56 in the city. 67 in mountain view. Good morning to gilroy, mid 60s and look at that. No wind from the roof camera. 59 in santa rosa. Upper 60s. Lighter winds by the delta, mid60s in inland valleys and in in the 40s earl your kbu already two to five degrees warmer than yesterday and finally another view of san jose where you can see looks pretty hazy at the surface there. But good ri limited fog. A cooler weather pattern right Center Tuesday and wednesday. Speaking of tuesday. Numbers dropping a good 10 degrees from where coolest day. Maybe some upper70s in our inland valleys. The breeze picks up and low clouds and fog should give us drizzle by tuesday and wednesday. Thursday numbers will be comfortable but as we get into the afternoon today it is going to get warm to hot, anywhere from from concord to antioch with numbers low to mid90s. 80 in fremont. 83 in san jose. Four degrees warmer than yesterday. Santa rosa hasnt been too hot this summer but today around 90. So warmup for you. 83 in san rafael. The accuweather 7 day forecast will keep it relatively quiet the next several days with heat inland and those northerly wins. Watch out for those for sure. Overall though with the waefrt looks like still the troughs are hanging out to the north and bringing temperatures that could be a lot warmer but really have not been for the summer. All right. Sounds good, lisa. Thank you. Appreciate it. Just ahead changes coming to facebook this weekend. Well have details on the new feature that you will notice started tod