Transcripts For KTVU KTVU Mornings On 2 At 430am 20240713 :

KTVU KTVU Mornings On 2 At 430am July 13, 2024

And everything is doing well, lets look at what would have been you can see traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge looks good as we drive towards marin county in San Francisco, when youre driving in San Francisco be careful near 101 and 280, you will see lane closures and detours, traffic is light anyway and it is not causing a big traffic jam. Now back to dave. Almost a dozen more us governors expected to announce plans to reopen their states in the coming days. They will be following the lead of governors in georgia, South Carolina, alaska and oklahoma and allow some nonessential businesses to reopen that many of the states are reopening without the recommended testing and Contact Tracing and that is raising serious questions about Public Health. This virus will be with us until we have a social distancing measures and economies began to at risk of recurrence or response in the illness. The economic crisis chided the pandemic is pressuring many governors to reopen states, about 26 million americans have filed for unemployment just this past month. Protesters demanding california lift its shelter in place order showed up at Gavin Newsoms home over the weekend. More than a dozen demonstrators gathered outside the governors home in fair oaks in Sacramento County demanding the governor reopen the state saying the shelter in place order has gone too far. Many of these people ignored the social distancing guidelines during the protests. It was a similar demonstration in san diego this weekend, look at this drone video showing hundreds of people who gathered in the Pacific Beach neighborhood. They dismissed californias warnings about the virus that and demanded businesses be allowed to reopen immediately. Hundreds of thousands are now no longer employed because of government mandated unemployment. I am part of a Small Business and will will lose 80,000 a month this month and we are just a tiny piece of the pie. These protesters appear to ignore social distancing rules and many were not Wearing Masks new York Governor Andrew Cuomo set a timeline for when the state can start reopening. He said the first phase could begin as early as may 15 and would most likely affect businesses upstate and in central new york. Phase 1 of reopening will involve construction and manufacturing activities, and within construction and manufacturing, those businesses which have a low risk. He says the phased reopening plan is based on the current number of total virus cases in the state, new york is the us state which has been hit hardest in this pandemic. Governor cuomo also said new york no longer needs the u. S. Navy ship to help with patients and us s s comfort is to leave it stock in manhattan and return to its home port in virginia sometime this week with the comfort first arrived in new york city last month to help the hospitals that were overwhelmed with virus patients that it only ended up treating less than 200 people. And as the bay area what waits for the shelter in place orders to be lifted Public Health officers tell us your ktvu news that Contact Tracing will be a deciding factor. Governor newsom talked about wanting to ramp up and to create a group that continues to do that as we move forward in progression and when you talk about Contact Tracing what is its role in all of this to help us reach reopening . Yeah i think Contact Tracing is a traditional Public Health approach to dealing with outbreaks and it is really critical in terms of monitoring and controlling covid 19 in the community. The purpose of this is not only to give information to the person he test positive on how they should be isolating themselves at home and staying away from people, but also identifying all of those people potentially exposed to make sure that they also are quarantining and staying away from the general public during the time they might be incubating the virus and might be contagious and spreading it to others. Ktvus greg lee spoke to bay area Health Officers behind some of the decisions that help our communities and affect them, watch the full interview on ktvu. Com. Public Health Experts worry that quarantine fatigue may be setting in and hampering the efforts to contain the spread of covid 19 here in the bay area and ktvus Leigh Martinez reports. Reporter even the recent polls show a majority of americans say they support stay athome orders, this week more americans including here in the bay area are on the move. Were up here for exercise and to get out of the house because were getting stir crazy. Spent line rates was a popular destination. The parking lot is getting more full and usually you do not see cars lined up on the street. Caltrans said overall bay area traffic significantly dropped between 40 and 60 after the shelter in place orders went into effect and it just started to slightly climb up this weekend. It stabilized right around 50 and over the past week or so we have seen a small uptick in the numbers. Stephen sunday evening caltrans shut down highway 101 southbound for the allegheny circle replacement project can impact traffic volume. Tonight is the first big closure were doing, well the second were we are taking southbound traffic on to 280. Solano county announced plans to extend state homeowners to may 17 other counties have yet to announce plans and Health Experts worry that any increase in travel could result in the rise of covid 19 cases, already several states like georgia and South Carolina lifted work restrictions this week and Governor Newsom at Health Officials say stayathome restrictions should only relax once there is widespread testing and Contact Tracing. Leigh martinez ktvu fox 2 news. Around the world several countries now taking steps to reopen and get back to business including countries hit hardest by coronavirus. And in spain the rules are being relaxed in some areas. Spain reported the lowest daily increase in coronavirus deaths and more than a month and in italy after almost 2 months of lockdown the Prime Minister their described plans resuming normal Business Operations this morning starting with wholesale operations and construction. If we do not respect the distance and do not respect the precautions the epidemic curve can rise again and spin out of control and we will have more people dying and at that stage the damage for our economy would be a reversible. Meanwhile School Officials in wuhan china are preparing high schools to allow seniors to come back on may 6 to finish their final school year, stepped up cleaning and social distancing will be strictly enforced. The numbers for the coronavirus pandemic do keep growing and this morning there are more must 3 million confirmed cases of coronavirus around the world. Almost 206, 000 people have died from covid 19 and complications and their 870,000 confirmed cases of people who have recovered from the virus and in africa the number of confirmed coronavirus cases jumped 40 in less than two weeks and global Health Experts worry the medical system in africa isnt equipped to deal with the growing number of coronavirus patients. The red cross and the World Food Program are helping get food to africa and preparing medical equipment and supplies for field hospitals which could be sent to africa soon. The chinese city where the coronavirus may have started is reporting is final coronavirus patients were released from the hospital but that is the report from officials in wuhan china, that city had more than 46,000 infections reported which is 56 of the total in all of china. Wuhan china as you know was sealed off for more than two months but it has been lifted. There are still restrictions though and those who live there are still being tested for the coronavirus. Okay back to steve and we did have pretty warm weather and i know we are wrapping up april and you say for the most part it will cool down. Today and tomorrow little warmer than cooler, into the first week of may which is how is looking out, but a strong system moving to the north of us which is flattened the ridge of High Pressure which allowed the onshore breeze to kick in then as it does it is allowed cool air to spill in and send it was cooler compared to friday and saturday with lots of upper 80s to near 90. Mostly sunny and patchy fog perhaps but most chewed up, breezy to blustery at times in east southeast golden gate park, 30. 06 on the pressure and that is exactly what it is here. 40s and 50s on the temps. Redwood city 51 and novato 54 and 48 santa rosa and napa airport at 47 and woodside is 44 and mainly 50s. A decent delta breeze, northwest at napa and then west southwest at travis. Water temperatures very cold, bodega is at 50 and San Francisco buoy 52 and as long as that stays in place the fog has a lot to work with if it gets a little help like we saw yesterday and today. We will see warmer weather on the way to stay but it will not stick and stay. It will start to back off on wednesday and then much cooler conditions the end of april and into the first week of may. A warning this morning, beware of fake coronavirus test kits being sold online. Coming up the call from lawmakers to have tougher restrictions. And suppliers are feeling the impact of closed shops and restaurants. How the pandemic is disrupting the food supply in this country and how farmers are adjusting. This is a lie look at the traffic this morning on Golden Gate Bridge. Absolutely nothing right now. Sal castaneda is watching all of our roads and he is pulling together music for traffic jams coming up here on mornings on 2. Disable people who needed them long before this crisis say they are in danger of losing them now. Spirit people are anticipating scenarios where the Healthcare Companies reclaim the ventilator spirit ktvu shows how a Healthcare Company can reclaim their equipment and leave some people gasping for air. Tonight on the 10 pm news. It is now 4 44 am, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is back at work after recovering from the coronavirus and family did to be carrying johnson was seen to be arriving at 10 downing street yesterday, two weeks after being released from hospital in london and today the Prime Minister doctor visit france with the virus and said written is making progress in the battle against the pandemic. If this virus or a physical assailant, an unexpected and invisible mugger, which i can tell you from past experience it is, then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor. The Prime Minister also said despite the progress being made against the virus it is too soon to relax social distancing restrictions. Talk south korean official says his country is confident there have been no Unusual Development in north korea despite reports that north Korean Leader kim jong un is seriously ill. Unconfirmed reports by a japanese magazine over the weekend said he is in a vegetative state following major cardiac surgery in april. He is in his mid to late 30s and is a heavy smoker with respiratory and heart problems. At this point given how much talk there has been and how quiet north korea and china have been im guessing theres probably something wrong with his health which would not be surprising. He is morbidly obese and he smokes and has had out in the past. Intelligence officials in south korea say they believe kim jong un is north Koreas Capital city and satellite images show a trend that could belong to the north Korean Leader which has been parked at a station and a resort town since at least last tuesday. This morning nancy pelosi, the california congresswoman and speaker of the house has officially endorsed joe biden for president. As we face coronavirus joe has been a voice of reason and resilience with a clear path to lead us out of this crisis. Speaker pelosi overnight spoke about his eight years as Vice President which included leading the american recovery and reinvestment act. By the way there are 190 days until election day tuesday, november 3. Also today democratic president ial candidate joe biden in california senator, harris are hosting a virtual town hall meeting on how the coronavirus disproportionately affects communities of color. The town hall this to begin it 12 30 this afternoon and live streamed on joe bidens campaign website. San Francisco Police are looking for clues this morning and homicide in the outer sunset district. Police arrived and apartment on the great highway last night. That is where officers found a body and a police have not released any other information about the victim or the circumstances surrounding the death. The Sonoma County Sheriffs Office is mourning the death of one of its k9s, three half yearold maquet was taken to the veterinarian saturday for a medical emergency in the Sheriffs Office did not say what the emergency was but said the dog died, he served with the Windsor Police department for the past two years. And Alameda County officials are reporting a new case of covid 19 the santa rita jail in dublin bringing the total number of inmates who have the virus to nine. Another 22 inmates tested positive but have fully recovered and two Staff Members were also infected but are recovering but the number of inmates at the jail have decreased significantly since county officials released low level offenders in an effort to reduce the spread of covid 19. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer is calling for a crackdown on fraudulent covid 19 tests sold online. Spirit we cannot have false tests sold online for antibodies or for covid, it will delay our recovery and make the problem worse and it will endanger the lives of people. Senator schumer says he sent the letter to the fda asking if it has sufficient resources to monitor and respond to the availability of fraudulent tests. The fda issued an alert last month to the americans about unauthorized and fraudulent test kits and warned against them. Is businesses stay closed because of the pandemic, billions of dollars in food is being wasted and growers and producers seeing a huge surplus of perishable foods even as food banks are seeing a growing demand all over the country. We have that story. Reporter the timing of this shutdown cannot be worse for farmers in florida where peak harvest season is already underway scott has been forming cucumber for more than 40 years and this years harvest was poised to be his best ever to the coronavirus force was of the states restaurants and Tourism Industry to shut down but is already lost half of his crop and is poised to lose his entire halfmillion dollar harvest if things do not turn around soon. We do not want handouts or have people feel sorry for us we chose this profession but hand hundreds of millions of pounds of food across the country going to waste because of breakdowns in the supply chain and food been sourcing record demand and some farmers of been able to donate a part of their harvest but in march several Industry Groups contacted the usda pleading for help with a surplus of personal food and it wasnt until a month later the agency announced last week a new aid program to buy 100 billion worth of excess produce, meat and dairy each month at october. Floridas agricultural commissioner says it is too little, too late. Spirit we thought that stimulus money would come from the usda quicker but we just heard about it on friday that it was released. Spirit the Agriculture Department is doing with the growing crisis and Meat Processing industry with more than a dozen plants across the country losing their doors due to outbreaks among their workers. Spirit there is a concern over the Food Supply Chain and if we dont have enough workers to manage the plants it backs up a food supply over the next month or be harder to come by but in the long term the ag industry says without more federal help farmers and businesses could be at risk of going out of business for good. In San Francisco the School District is working with Community Organizations to provide more grab and go meals and Student Nutrition Services says working with the chinatown ymca, children do not need to be with the adults during pickup. They grab and go meal distributional be at the ymca on sacramento street from 11 30 to 12 30 today and on wednesday. Also today foster farms will be donating more than 110,000 servings of

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