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Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 400PM 20240712

Piggy bank to fund the president s unemployment plan. He said it would cost the state roughly 700 million per week. Heres Melanie Woodrow with more. Reporter for unemployed california residents, an additional 600 per week of Unemployment Benefits expired at the end of july. President trump signed an executive order that would give 400 a week in enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits through the end of december. Now the governor says california wont be able to contribute the states required 25 . Stlz is no money sitting in the piggy bank of the previous c. A. R. E. S. Act to be reprioritized or reconstituted for this purpose. Simply does not exist. Reporter he said ste as lge as califorurn gove to fron those eporte goverr d whealifornians who need that money will get it. Meantime, 3 4 of renters have fallen behind on their rent, with the majority being in the latin x community. Dr. Mark elly provided an update on the failure. 295,000 backlogged records were processed over the weekend. The cases are now ready and available to local entities to be processed. Making sure the positives are really positive, the negatives are really negative. Reporter the cases will be reported by the state once finalized in the next 48 to 72 hours. The governor said the trendlines continue to look favorable, while he focused his comments on unemployment and evictions, journalists listening in focused their questions on the states data system failure, and dr. Sonia angels resignation over the weekend. The one thing i wont do as a human being is get into detailed te her for onversaon her leadership and stewardship. Melanie woodrow, abc7 news. Now, california is clearing its backlog of 300,000 covid19 tests that were caused by the technical problem melanie just mentioned. We are seeing a rise in cases. R today, new cases. Thats 1,000 more than the sevenday average. The state has confirmed 66 additional deaths from the coronavirus. About 5600 people are hospitalized. Thats below the twoweek average of 6300. The sevenday Positivity Rate is at 5. 8 , the states benchmark is 8 . Coronavirus cases in the bay area have almost doubled in the last month. The bay area and extended counties had just over 32,000 cases this time in july. Now theres nearly 64,000 cases. The biggest jump was seen in alameda county, which saw nearly 6,000 new cases in the last month. While deaths did not double, there was a significant increase. Almost 300 covid related deaths were reported between july and now. With that as backdrop, this was the first day of school for students in oakland. And it began with mixed reviews and without an agreement between the School District and the Teachers Union how Distance Learning should proceed. Leeann melendez takes a look at what worked and what could improve. It was a mild disaster. Reporter oakland parent Reginald Mosley said his three children had a hard time connecting to zoon because of connectivity problems. Eventually two of them. None of the chrome books worked on my wifi. It could be because i had so many other things on the wifi, i just didnt have the band width. So i was trying to shut everything off. Reporter he is a h2 studenut onl showed uittas tang attenddance w, the better dewhnohed. These so when trying to do attendance, youre like, where is the a for absent . Where is the p for present . Reporter she worked from home, but teachers have the option to work on site in their classrooms. The principal described the first day of classes for one kindergarten teacher. Had a really structured morgue for her kids to get to meet each other, get to meet other and build some of the routines. In a similar way we would do in the first day of school, but doing it virtually. Reporter even though classes started today, the district has yet to agree on how many hours of live instruction will be finally delivered. Negotiations started late on july 6. Bottom line is, were hoping to have our teachers in front of our students a little bit more in the live education that our kids need. Reporter the union is also asking for more flexibility for teachers with children at home who are also learning online. Everyone in my household needs to be online at 9 00 a. M. , according to our schedules this year. Which means im going to have to assist my 9 00yearold, get online, help her while im also teaching. Reporter both sides are now hoping to finalize an agreement by early this week. Leeann melendez, abc7 news. Santa clara county is taking action to help ease the Digital Divide as students prepare to start the year online. Today, supervisors announced 7 million in funding. The money will help at least 15,000 students. The move comes after the city of san jose announced a partnership with at t to install 11,000 highend hot spots within the city. The College Football season could be completely postponed as soon as tomorrow because of the coronavirus. This is a really complicated situation and involves the health and safety of players and billions, yes, billions of dollars. The bigtime programs like alabama, they make over 100 million a year on football. That money supports all the other sports at the school. So the ripple effects are major if games are not played this fall. Alabama is a member of the southeast conference. The s. E. C. Really wants to play for obvious reasons. The pac 12 and big 10 are leaning heavily towards not playing or pushing football to the spring. Lets bring in Chris Alvarez on what is a rapidly changing story, including breaking news we got just minutes ago affecting san jose state and their program. Reporter within a half hour, the Mountain West conference just made it official, they have post poped all fall sports, including football. No official statemnts from any of the power five conferences yet. The hope, optimism or desire to play College Football or fall sports is different from region to region, school to school, which makes this issue all the more complicated. We did see big names like jim harbaugh put out a statement which said he thinks its safer for athletes to be on campus because of safety protocols at those schools. Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence tweeted he believes its s teammates. It looks like the pac 12 will be voting on their season for fall sports tomorrow. Several players from stanford and cal are on that committee. They voiced their concerns about safety and eligibility, larry. Yeah, look, the players want to play if it can be done safely. But the School President s are toing to make this decision. Obviously, theres economic concerns, but health and safety is huge here. And this call is made more difficult by some new studies suggesting there could be some longterm Health Problems from covid19, in particular heart issues. And chris, schools dont want to be responsible for longterm health care. And that is a big factor for sme of the conferences that are weighing in on this. And they haveo my di larry. The liability for some of these schools, if someone were to get badly sick or dare i say it, die, it would be extreme. So you have to remember, these are student athletes not getting paid. The nfl is different, professional athletes. As we talked about earlier, the nfl might be easier, because you have 32 teams, one commissioner. Whereas in College Football, there is no commissioner, theres different conferences, athletic directors. We just saw the it to the spring. Were waiting to see what the power five schools probably do tomorrow. But this could happen within minutes. We dont know, as the tom kndom start to fall. It is a daunting task for these other schools and kvenconferenc larry. And schools, alabama, michigan, that have a lot of prospective nfl players dont want to push to the spring because thats when theyre getting ready for the nfl draft. Those players who believe they have pro careers. So theres a lot of different agendas and trying to get it all sorted out and everybody satisfied, health, safety, longterm. It looks like were leaning to not having a season, but we have to wait and see. Chris, thank you. And when we come back, congresswoman Jackie Speier joins us. Well talk with her about president trumps executive orders and the big changes at this years professional businesswomans conference, going where its never gone before. Plus, congress and the president at an empass over helping the American People. Where things stand. Im Spence Christian here to give you a look at brief relief from the heat, and i do strongly underscore brief. Ill have the accuweather where you can find games, hi. News and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. With americans needing help and the 600 a week from the c. A. R. E. S. Act gone, what will happen next in the form of government help . Joining us to talk about that is congresswoman Jackie Speier. Congresswoman, so good to see you. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. I like your virtual back ground. Its making me feel very zen already. But what were about to talk about is stressful. President trump signed several executive orders, one would be a 400 per week unemploymentoyment extension. Another would suspend the payroll taxes. One, this is clearly not the 1 trillion democrats wanted for local and state governments. But could it be helpful in the shorm term . Well, it could be helpful for like five weeks. This is not a fiveweek problem. This is going to take us another four to five months before were going to be in a position where the economy can just begin to come back. So what the president has done is illegal. He has also appropriated money from another fund, from fema, and put it into this new account. But that fema money, that 40 billion, is there for Hurricane Season and firestorms. Something we know all too well. So thats a problem, too. And most states cant afford the 25 match. So youre down to 300. And if you dont have the match, hes not willing to give it all. I think it was dead on arrival, but he wanted to do something at his golf course with all of his, you know, golfers looking on. So it was a bit of a show, frankly. And i think what we need to do is just get the negotiations completed and get the food back on the table and the roofs over peoples houses. And thats only going to happen with a continuation of the unemployment. You answered my second question, which is are these orders constitutional. I think you expressed your opinion on that, and no doubt there will be legal challenges. But whose court is the ball in right now . Of course, the clock is ticking for americans as you mentioned. So the ball is in the court of the administration to work in conjunction with both Speaker Pelosi and the democratic leader schumer in the senate. Theyve already come down a trillion dollars. Theyre asking the republicans to come up a trillion, so we would agree at 2 trillion. Youve got to give cities and states the money to kind of keep them afloat. If we dont do that, theres going to be more people that will be unemployed. And the cycle is just going to keep moving and not be good for the economy and certainly not for the American People and families. Sounds like youre going to keep fighting for that local and state help. I want to shift gears and talk about the ppwc. This will be the 31st annual year for the professional businesswomans conference. You founded it, and now thousands attend. Great energy, but this year its going to be different. Its different all right. And thank goodness abc continues to be one of our great sponsors. It will be virtual this year, and rather than one day, its going to be three days. What making that great is you dont have to miss any program. You dont have to choose between the various seminars. You can see them all. And we have the probably the most diverse set of speakers we have ever had and it includes people like Cate Blanchett and lisa ling. And the vp of morgan stanley, and the young actress from blackish and the ceo of the real deal, which is julie wainright. Plus a number of great Women Leaders from all the Big Companies around the bay area to give us a great deal of inspiration and to follow their life stories, career choices, and hopefully glean a lot from that. I was going to say, having gone many years, i feel like its so great how you have the mentoring that goes on, thehehee professional women. Thank you so much representative. Good luck to you. Thank you, kristen. Really popular conference. I think at this point, its wait list only and abc 7 is proud to sponsor the professional businesswomen conference. The theme this year is for good and its pbwcs First Virtual conference. Registration closed but learn more about the organization and the conference at pbwc. Org. So for the virtual conference, how is the weather going to be, as people log on from their homes, spencer . Its going to be very nice. Inside and outside, kristen. Fortunately, i say ftutely because im enjoy thing cooldown from our weekend weather. It was a hot weekend. And today, a lot cooler in virtually all locations. Look at the 24hour temperature change, except San Francisco and half moon bay, all locations are about four to eight or even more degrees cooler than this time yesterday. And as you might know, weve had a windy pattern for quite some time. Its evident right now with gusts to 25 miles per hour. Oakland, 28. Livermore, 22. Ukiah, all around the region, it is breezy to gusty. This is a view from our roof top camera looking across the embarcadero. 63 in San Francisco. Oakland, 69. Mountain view 78. 83 in gilroy and 61 at half moon bay. Heres a view looking westward from emeryville. You can see the advancing low clouds and fog. Its 74 in santa rosa. Napa 75 right now. 91 in fairfield. 90 in concord. So its still pretty warm inland. And livermore, 89 degrees. Looking down from mt. Tam, these are the forecast features. Clouds and fog obviously expanding. A littlernoo but summers heat returns, and it could be quite hot. Overnight, well see again the advancing low clouds across the bay, and rather widespread inland. And a little patch of green is showing up near the coast. So there may be some coastal drizzle during the Early Morning hours. That could be a little bit of a slowdown factor for morning commuters. By 8 00 a. M. Or so, well see the fog and low clouds beginning to retreat to the coast. And then by midday and into the evening hours, mainly sunny days. Certainly over the bay and inland. Overnight low temperatures will be on the mild side, despite the daytime cooldown. Upper 50s to low 60s will be the rule for our overnight lows. Highs tomorrow, low 60s at the coast. Low to mid 70s around the bayshoreline, maybe a couple of upper 70s. Inland areas, mid to upper 80s. So dont expect any 90s. But more 90s are on the way. Wednesday well see temperatures bouncing back. Thursday, look for upper 90s inland. Friday, we might even see some triple digits. Heres the accuweather sevenday forecast. Well see a return to mid 90s inland by thursday and friday. Right now, were going with this over the weekend. But some forecast models are showing triple digits in the hottest inland spots over the weekend. So be prepared for warm to hot weather this coming weekend. And probably very little change, maybe a drop in terms by a degree or two on monday. Certainly, some of this heat will be quite evident over the weekend. Stay cool. I plan to. Larry and kristen . Thats hard for larry, not so hard for you, spencer. Yeah, it is hard for me. Yeah. S the bestr for the wee. I had aoke he had something he itsetr tou. O, canada, what is happening here . Canadians trying to poach tech youre on it. Exercising often and eating healthy . But could your medication do more to lower your heart risk . Jardiance can reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who also have known heart disease. So, it could help save your life from a heart attack or stroke. And it lowers a1c. Jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration, genital yeast or urinary tract infections, and sudden kidney problems. Ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that may be fatal. A rare, but lifethreatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. Stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right away if youre on dialysis or have severe kidney problems. Taking a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. Lower a1c and lower risk of a fatal heart attack . On it with jardiance. Ask your doctor about jardiance. To poach Silicon Valley workers. Theyre before offered a job, visa and health insurance. Heres luz pena with the story. Reporter what if is the headline of nine bill boards looming over bay area freeways, targeting entInternational Tech talent. Who is behind it . Canada, sort of. Were all looking for great talent and canada is a welcoming place. Reporter they are investing 100,000 in this ad Campaign Offering a sweet deal, targeting International Tech talent feri the e, days. Thats the thing that our government realized, they know that for every one of those people that comes in, theyre creating between six and ten new jobs for canadians. Reporter this comes at a time when President Donald Trump suspended h 1 b visas to the end of this year. So canadas doors are open, and Silicon Valleys ceos are seeing the impact. Sitting in the board meetings, theyre trying to hire programmers from russia or other parts of the world. Reporter how concerned should

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