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Transcripts For KGO ABC7 News 500AM 20240712

From san jose. Those impacted by the coronavirus crisis. Some people are them h ty le recenauthod by the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley they found that more than 43,000 families countywide will be at risk of homelessness if current protections arent extended. Sandy perry of the Affordable Housing says more needs to be done related to rent forgiveness. With the pandemic and the layoffs related to the pandemic, people are absolutely destitute. They have no way to pay the back rent. Now, Property Owners are alsd too, n to be p of the conversation. Some have gone months without receiving payment from their tenants and are now at risk of foreclosure themselves. The board of supervisors will meet today and may vote on this issue. Reporting live from san jose, lauren martinez, abc7 news. This morning we are hearing from a single mom who is homeless just six months after she gave birth to twins. This is a rosanna and her twins elijah and elias. She was the property manager at the mobile Home Community and rv park. She lived there for free because of her job. But her eviction papers say she was fired for substandard performance and denied her claims of harassment and discrimination. She has been staying at a m just like, lord, dont let s, me, you know, these types of situations, people go crazy. But thank god i got my boys boys still. Abc7 news reached out to the Mobile Home Park and she set up a go fund me to help her find a place to live. In the east bay a project to help build a sixstory apartment complex in walnut creek could move forward today. Contra costa county board of supervisors is set to reject two appeals filed against the del hombre apartments. They claim there isnt enough parking and that this project will cause traffic problems. Now an abc7 news live update. Russia says it has become the first country to find a Coronavirus Vaccine but critics wonder if the Government Cut corners to do it. The point is not to be first with the vaccine. The point is to have a vaccine that is safe and effective for the American People and the people of the world. We need transparent data and its got to be phase three data that shows that a vaccine is safe and effective. Mass vaccinations are expected in october but russias vaccine does not meet u. S. Standards. They basically declared victory before finishing phase three trials. The health and Human Service secretary shared his thoughts on gma this morning. Well hear more from azar on how the u. S. Is faring to find a vaccine on gma at 7 00 right here after abc7 mornings. All right. All this week were digging into the race to find a vaccine. We hope youll join us for a special series of stories and guest interviews exploring the bay area role in the development and the latest on recent studies and will people get one when its available. All that and more. The race for a vaccine airs all this week on abc7 news on our app and on our website. Today San Francisco mayor london breed expected to give an update on the covid19 situation in the city. Shes also set to present her Budget Proposal for the next year. Efforts to find the pandemic are expected to have a great impact on that budget. California right now clearing its backlog of up to 300,000 covid19 tests. Governo newsom says the numbers coming in are encouraging. Trend lines continue to look favorable. We are not seeing anything in the data to date, particularly looking back. Those 295,000 backlog cases that suggest those trend lines that we advanced last monday are not actually in play. The governor was pressed about the news that came out late sunday that dr. Sonya sony resigned. He wouldnt go into specifics but gave this brief answer. We accept the resignation and appreciated her work. We all have a role and responsibility as to what relates to what happened within our respected departments. None of this is easy. Technology is always stubborn and challenging. Angel was appointed as the States Health officer just last october. In oakland, the Teachers Union and the School District are hoping to come to some agreement over Distance Learning before the end of the week. Today is the second day of School Without an agreement between the two sides on how Virtual Learning will work. One of the issues is how many hours of live instrit w, its a and the district would like to see a little bit more. The union is also asking for more flexibility for teachers who have kids at home who are also learning online. Everyone in my househod needs to be online at 9 00 a. M. , according to our schedules this year. Which means im going to have to assist my 9yearold get online, help her while im also teaching. The teachers would also like to have substitute to help with small group instruction. New this morning, a big bay area tech company is donating millions of dollars to five major public School Districts to help them reopen safely. Jobina is at the live desk with details on this. Jobina. Thank you, kumasi. Salesforce announced it is granting 20 million to schools to support them. The money will help provide equitable, safe and connected learning. Those five district that will be involved here include San Francisco, oakland, indianapolis, chicago School Districts. Each will receive 9 million. Toelp those close the digital divide. Salesforce will help staff with how to conduct wellness checks and conduct tracing and more resources Like Mental Health services and tutoring. This brings salesforce investment in education to 118 million. Kumasi. All right, thanks, jobina. Abc7 spent last week covering back to school. Everything from preschool to college. And you can watch all the stories any time on our new connected tvapps. If you stream on apple, tv, android tv, fire tv or roku search and download the app for free. Lets take a look at what is going on with some neighborhood temperatures. If youre about to step outside and cloudy and foggy conditions lower with temperatures from 59 in places like berkeley and richmond and 63 in oakland and lets look at other neighborhood. Increasing clouds this morning. Theyre arriving a couple hours quicker than they did yesterday. Weve got low to mid 60s in many neighborhood. 59 in pleasanton and also up in santa rosa with some of our milder spots. South, southwest wind at 17 Miles Per Hour and its going to be rough north of the bay bridge throughout the day. In fact, winds will increase even more as we head into the afternoon hours. Strong sunshine today if youre out exercising and our last real comfortable day for yard work. Lets take a look at the north bay where were in the 60s through about 10 00 and then sunshine and try to reach 80 around 4 00 and down to 68 at 8 00. Your temperature bell for the south bay starts at 63 at 8 00 with cloud cover and goes to 81 this afternoon for a couple hours and down to 70 with sunshine at 8 00 and east bay valleys this is as good as it gets. Mid to upper 80s for a couple of hours this afternoon. 90s and 100s on the way in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Ill see you in a few minutes for that. Lets get back to jobina and talk about our traffic. Hi, jobina. Hi, mike, thank you. Since mike just showed you the Golden Gate Bridge. I want everybody to know that we have a high wind advisory and fog advisory issued by the chp for the golden gate. Well take a live look at oakland and 880 at the coliseum camera there. Those headlights making their way south this morning and pretty clear ride and been that way for the most part through the bay area. Bring in the map and see our slow spot sluggish coming out of tracy this morning where we also have a high wind advisory through the Altamont Pass and drive times here for you this morning. Looking green and good. Albany to the maze five minutes and fremont to san jose 13minute ride and highway 101 to cupertino ten minutes. Reggie . Thank you, jobina. Coming up, the seven things to know this morning. Also, a live look now at sfo. Fewer people may be flying right now, but tsa agents are noticing a dangerous trend when it comes to what passengers are trying to bring on their carryons. Bring him up. Okay. A helicopter rescues an elderly couple inj its game day live, here at bia fanfavorite venue, ever since they got gigspeed internet. Hey, amy . Wanna grab a seat . Were live. Its game on, with gigspeed internet from xfinity. Start him. Sit him. Trade him. Xfinity delivers fast, reliable internet with speeds up to a gig. Learn more, or get started with xfinity internet for 24. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, switch to Xfinity Mobile and for a limited time get 400 off an eligible Samsung Galaxy 5g phone. Click, call or visit a store today. Squeeze in. Pull up a chair. Because lifes just better when you believe theres always room for one more. Ritz. A taste of welcome. Its 5 12. If youre just joining us, seven things to know. Russia approved the first covid19 vaccine, but many questions still remain over safety. U. S. Officials say more data is needed to determine the vaccines effectiveness. Number two today the Santa Clara County board of supervisors may vote to extend the evic moratorium through september. If they dont, more than 43,000 families will be at risk of homelessness. Number three the pac12 and big ten schools are considering postponing the football season because of coronavirus. Officials are set to meet today to discuss it. San francisco unified is expected to ratify a deal with the Teachers Union. Lineinstruc day. School starts monday. Number five. Enjoy todays average to below average high temperatures because they wont last. Weve got a high risk of heat illness coming in the accuweather sevenday forecast. Number six, a pretty quiet start to our Tuesday Morning commute. I hope it stays that way for everybody who needs to head out the door. Take a live look showing off our emoeryville camera here as peope make their way towards the maze this morning. Number seven. Governor newsom says the state will not be able to contribute to a new round of Unemployment Benefits for californians. States would have to pay 100 a week but he says the state just does not have the money. The tsa remind you that you cannot bring a gun in your carryon luggage. Tsa says lately agents have been finding guns at a much higher rate. On sunday, more than 80 80 80 8 instances guns through airport checkpoints. 80 of the guns arechecked baggs theyre unloaded and in a locked case. An onion recall has expanded to include unen is sold at trader joes and ralphs. Trader joes says you should throw out pacific gold onions. You are looking at the two labels to watch out for. Warning people about medium yellow onions. They could be contaminated with salmonella. Your computer, phone and tv, get this, could be aging your skin. The problem is the blue light that they emit. As abc7 reporter kate larsen reports, we can do something about it without pulling the plug. Reporter with so many people working and learning from home, our screens and the abc newsroom is full of them have become more ingrained in our daily lives. Turns out that our beautiful devices that we love have blue light in them. Theres sort of a growing interest in knowing whether or not blue light may lead to some premature skin aging. Reporter they are dermatologists. Blue light leads to free radical formation, as well as a little bit of mitochondrial dna damage and that could lead to the cells to age quicker and brown spots. Reporter thats because of sctm blue right is right next to uv light which is very harmful. But he points out that the sun is multiple times worse than our devices when it comes to exposure and that unlike uv, blue light is not thought to cause skin cancer, however there is evidence that visible light can actually cause our skin to make pigmentation, particularly in people of color. Reporter dr. Raman at stanford specializing in laser and skin of color. That can be splotchy pigmentation and can be really unsightly and affect peoples life. Reporter the good news. You can block blue light. You need the sunscreen to sit on the skin to block the blue light. Reporter dermatologists say to use sunscreen chemical sunscreens do not block blue light. On many devices, you can actually remove some of the blue light from your screen. On my iphone i can go to display and brightness and night shift and make the phone warmer in color. Reporter kate larsen, abc7 news. Well, now there is Something Else to worry about that i didnt have on my list today. Its too much. I dont know. Ill be fixing that one soon. Im glad kate showed us how to do that. Well be on that quickly. Hopefully its on the ipad now, too. Lets take a look what is going on weatherwise. You want to protect your eyes ue plenty of it away from the coast and increasing clouds and about 58 degrees at sfo. The clouds will linger a little bit longer thanks to a stronger sea breeze today. Theyll drop our temperatures to the coolest levels moving forward. Weve got an extended period, especially inland of above average highs that well see some neighborhoods reach a high risk of heat. High elevations like the east bay hills look at the clouds still hanging in the coast and some of the coastal valleys in the north bay and pushing across the golden gate and for a couple hours well get some sunshine before they make their trip back during the latter part of the afternoon into the early evening hours. So, for our last average afternoon, how about upper 70s to low 80s in the south bay and 82 in san jose and temperatures in the low to mid 70s along the coast and low to mid 60s i should say along the peninsula. Low to mid 60s along the coast and mid to upper 60s downtown in south San Francisco and sausalito. Mid to upper 70s through the north bay valleys and 72 in oakland and 79 in fremont and then mid to upper 80s in our est bay valleys. Tonight well drop back into the low 50s to low 60s. Now, you want to see the meteor shower towards dawn, that is going to be a little bit easier as we head deeper into the forecast and the clouds not as dominant and thats why we see temperatures jump up to the 80s and 100s for friday and saturday. Our hottest and most dangerous days. Kumasi. Thank you, mike. Smashmouth is facing backlash after the band headlined a huge festival during the pandemic. They appeared at the sturgis motorcycle rally and you can see here the crowd gathered near the stage and most people did not have masks on. More than 2500 peoe are ivs e eouired. D t se citownd her calf left them stranded at a park in solano county. Three, two, one. Loaded yours. Bring her up. Okay. So one by one the crews hoisted the hikers 75 feet into a helicopter at lynch Canyon Regional park. The chp says the crews had to intervene because the couple fell and got hurt. Apparently they were being chased by the cows who thought they were a threat. They were transported to a local hospital and treated for their injuries there. This video shows the cow and the calf standing there just a few steps away. We just need to leave them alone. Give them some space. Especially the mothers and the babies. Okay. I know. Yeah. Please give them their time. Well, a give away on a tree in the north bay. The freebie that youll find just hanging there. Also,he nba is already doing. Now lily everyone in the house is online and i cant get enough bandwidth to video chat with my book club. Try 1 gig internet with at t fiber. You get more bandwidth and hbo max included. So, everyone stays entertained. So i can just watch the show instead of reading the book . You know, if you turn on your subtitles. Thats almost reading. Get 1 gig internet with at t fiber for 49. 99a month for a year. No annualcontract. And now get hbo max included. Limited availability in select areas. Call 1. 877. Only. Att abc7 mornings. Hey, take a look at the next week. Seven days worth of weather just to show you how hot it is going to be. Hottest microclimates. South bay low to mid 90s friday and saturday and still right around 90 and even warmer in the north bay. Look at these temperatures upper 90s friday and saturday and our hottest temperatures this is where our high risk of heat illness will be and still sunday and monday 98, 98 and tuesday next week we could be near 100. Look at this, 60s and 70s for San Francisco, reggie. That looks nice. All right, the mlb postseason could be held in a bubbletype format. Espn reports the league is in talks about possibly having three hubs to start the playoffs. Go down to two locations for the Division Series and the League Championship series and world series could be held at any one or two stadiums. Southern california, chicago, new york, theyre all looking at those cities because they each have multiple ballparks available. The postseason scheduled to start september 27th. In todays gma first look this is a real bummer for a lot of you. New research from Duke University looks into how well masks actually stop people from releasing droplets that could spread the coronavirus and it turns out those neck gators that so many people are wearing might do more harm than good. Heres eva pilgrim. Reporter in this mornings gma first look putting masks to the test. As masks become required in more and more places across the country, scientists at duke put 14 commonly found options to the test. They recorded video as a person spoke into a box housing a laser beam. This is what is under the hood. Reporter the goal to see how effective different types of masks were at keeping droplets from getting out. You can see the green laser beam illuminating particles as the person spoke. You can also see the green droplets coming out of the mask into the box. This is the no mask. Reporter their

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