Us. Good morning. Clotting has the morning off, happy fourth of july to everybody watching us at home. Rosemary is joining us with the Holiday Weekend forecast. Fox 2. Good morning. Up to it beautiful start, we have sunshine in most areas around the bay and inland, a little bit of patchy fog and the coastline. Temperatures for today are going to be warming up. We are talking about mid 60s to upper 70s for the coastline. Mid 70s to mid80s for bayside committees and the inland cities, some the hotter spots into the 90s. A good 510 degrees warmer been yesterday, the details on your fourth of july holiday and your extended forecast coming up. Traditional Independence Day celebration change this year because of coronavirus of course, more than a quarter Million People tested positive so far in california, 6300 people have died. The governor is sending so called strike teams to stop any large gatherings and violate Health Orders such as bars opening a. 21 counties on the state watchlist including santa clara and moderate counties. The county is experiencing elevated disease transmission and hospitalization. One to move forward or scale back on reopening processes. Officals say some of the increase in rent is due to the big outbreak at simcoe in prison. Investigators believe the coronavirus claimed two more lives at san quentin prison. The 57yearold Scott Thomas Erskine has been a death row since 2004 for the murders of two boys in san diego. The other inmate alvarez was on death row since 1989 for killing a man in sacramento. We hear from a former san quentin inmate to tested positive for covid19 just after his release. 23yearold jose omar bad air gomez says he had a sore throat late last month. He knew he was sick and likely contagious when he was released from prison this past monday. He was dropped off at a marin county stop where he made his way to his familys apartment in San Francisco. He took a covid19 test the next day and was positive. The San FranciscoGeneral Hospital helped him get into hotel room at a Downtown Hotel where he is now quarantined. He says the conditions at san quentin are right for outbreaks. We play basketball and handball and workout, do push ups. Coughing vomiting, just going through it. He was in san quentin for probation violation okay coronavirus test was taken late last month but was released before getting results. Eight jail inmates tested positive for the virus. The inmates were asymptomatic when tested and placed in quarantine. Staff and inmates who came into contact with inmates have tested negative for the virus. The area had a new peak for hospitals asians, they more than doubled in the past two weeks. The San Francisco chronicle 491 confirmed covid19 patients in hospitals, the number tops the previous number 471 back in early april. California hit 5500 hospitalizations, the 14th consecutive day with a new high. Its the fourth of july but not the kind we are used to celebrate. This year certainly will be memorable, the pandemic led to canceled parades and Fireworks Shows in the bay area and social distancing limits even backyard barbecues. Leigh martinez joins us in some of the creative ways people are celebrating this holiday, good morning. There will be people who want to celebrate but the cities are trying to do this in a responsible way. There will be events starting this morning, several cities got creative to help people celebrate during a social distancing summer. All of the celebrations are canceled no Fireworks Show in the bay area, no traditional parades in order to prevent gatherings. But several cities are trying something different. The city of concord asks locals to shoot videos of themselves for a virtual parade and concert online. Homes are decorated in red white and blue for a house decorating contest and the city fourth of july commission will have a different aerial show instead of fireworks and plans to bring the parade to your doorstep. We heard a plane to fly around in the sky with a big banner behind it sing happy fourth of july Pleasant Hill. Every head now to 10 00 sam, scream and shout and wave to your neighbors. Hopefully a parade comes by your house when the parade starts. Look to the sky and take some photos. Fremont is holding a fourth of july porch pray. Residents to decorate their homes in red white and blue have a chance to win rises as people drive by and vote on winners. And morgan hill, they will do a live broadcast of its parade with nine horse groups and antique parks. Almost every official firework show including one in San Francisco has been canceled due to covid19 except one in the selfie city of gilroy. To encourage social distancing, gilroy announced it would shoot fireworks higher than usual saturday night so you could be seen from home. You have to be creative, thank you so much. President trump spoke before a packed amphitheatre at the foot of Mount Rushmore last night billed as an early celebration, very few masks on the crowd of over 75,000 people in south dakota and virtually everyone ignored social distancing guidelines. They watch President Trump deliver a politically divisive speech directing most of his anger at the protesters who are tearing down statues and monuments in recent weeks. Our nation is with this merciless campaign to wipe out history to famer heroes. Eraser values and indoctrinate our children. Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders. Deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of Violent Crime in our cities. They were tense moments even for the presence speech, actavis blocked the main routes to Mount Rushmore demanding vlan be given back to native americans. Police arrested at least 50 demonstrators. Donald trump jr. Girlfriends with disturbing news ahead of the president event at Mount Rushmore. She tested positive for coronavirus, donald trump jr. Reportedly tested negative but will be self isolate just to be safe. The white house says he has not been in close contact with President Trump but did attend the rally in tulsa two weeks ago. 16 years ago he she was the first leg of San Francisco during the first two years of governor newsoms run as mayor. Vice president mike pence stripped arizona this past week was delayed a day after secret Service Agents tested positive for the coronavirus, the Washington Post is reporting 8 10 agents traveled with the Vice President now show symptoms. The Vice President was scheduled to visit arizona tuesday but the visit was pushed to wednesday during the visit penns did not leave the airport. Its finally here in a big day. The fourth of july read on way to go. You are delivering the weather. I see you are doing the same. The weather looks too good, right . For backyard barbecues . Yes indeed, gorgeous out there. Little bit warm for inland cities. Just a reminder we typically are tracking fog this time of year. Whether or not it will impact the fireworks unfortunately, you dont have to worry about that. We are not waking up with much fog this morning. A live look at sfo regency mostly blue skies and just a little bit of fog a hillside. Patchy fog along the coast and just inside the bay for the rest, sunny start, here is a look at some of the numbers out there this morning, santa rosa, 50 degrees as we take a look at sfo, San Francisco checking in at 54. 56 oakland other 50s livermore and san jose good morning to 50. Temperatures, a few degrees cooler around the bay, down by three over oakland into the north bay as well, down by three over santa rosa, meanwhile inner east as well as the south bay just a little bit warmer than where we started. Really hard to tell if you are stepping out the door this morning. It will feel a lot like yesterday. There is a view of all of the clear sky out there this morning the winds are generally lights. Not losing the onshore breeze completed you can see how weak it is over fairfield this morning. Seven Miles Per Hour reporter the. And, very, the north they. Santa rosa, nevada and napa all reporting, conditions. Most of the beaches are closed if not all of them for the weekend. There is an advisory i want to mention going through sunday for south bay beach is talking about areas like santa cruz, capitola, stinson, we see an increase in rip currents as well as those sneaker waves. As far as what we can expect for the afternoon today, captures going from a little below average to above average in many spots, santa rosa suspected to have 92 afternoon. 70 degrees in San Francisco. Upper 70s in oakland. Upper 80s livermore and san jose youre looking at 85 for the afternoon. Not much change expected for the backend of the weekend i will look at those numbers plus your extended forecast, coming up. Dozens of people rally outside of the marin county jails demanding Racial Justice. Why they say the sheriff must ends a relationship with immigration enforcement. Concerns about powerful illegal fireworks set off in the bay area. Officals say they may be coming from, we will tell you. Welcome back, one of the most popular holiday Fireworks Shows in the sacramento area still taking place last night. As you might have guessed, there was a big change due to the pandemic. People watching the big show in folsom, they watch the fireworks from their cars. South of highway 50 on east bidwell street used as a parking lot for the socalled driving firework show. The firework show, while we maintain social distancing, vehicles parked every other parking space to celebrate in a way recognizing the county health order but also, to help have a reason for people to do takeout from local restaurants. Getting creative, the Fireworks Show in folsom was part of a Public Safety effort organizers were well aware Police Officers and firefighters will be very busy later tonight. Firefighters and Contra Costa County also busy overnight battling at least 13 fires drop county. Fire officals say they put out a structure fire and an exterior fire with seven vegetation fires can they believe three fires were started by illegal fireworks. Fire officals say they dealt with for two more fires in concord alone including two vehicles and two homes. Thankfully there were no reports of injuries. All week local Fire Departments have been on guard heading into the Holiday Weekend while fireworks are illegal in most parts of the bay area, 12 cities allow the socalled sale of safe fireworks. Including san bruno, dublin, gilroy, petaluma and cloverdale. Still, every year illegal fireworks lead to injuries and Property Damage. Experts say illegal fireworks like the come from asia and are shipped to other states before being smuggled into california. Conditions are dry. We are seeing unseasonably frequent wind events over the last four weeks. More fireworks occur across certain areas in the state and that is extremely alarming to us. According to the american pyrotechnic association, between 2000 2018, firework related injuries declined by more than half because of safer products and more supervision. In the normal world we would be talking about the weather over the day, saying please, rosemary, give us clear skies, but, no fireworks tonight but a lot of barbecues out there, so, how are we looking on this fourth of july . Good morning, youre right. Yes, we have nice weather coming our way for all of those backyard barbecues. You will need the sunblock, sunshine and a warming trend kicking off today, look at what is going on across the oakland estuary, we are looking at San Francisco actually. We have some blue skies to start the day, just a little bit of patchy fog on the coast and around the bay and sfo reporting just a little bit of that. Starting to look at the southern portion of the screen, the large bush there at sfo indicating whether or not we have wind out there, sfo has light wind reported and i showed you a little while ago, light wind pretty much throughout the day area this morning. Highpressure strengthening over the bay area for the weekend. That will threaten butchers up and keep most of the cloud coverage away as well, future cast into the afternoon, clear skies, here is a view of tomorrow morning, a repeat expect it for the bay area sunday. Then, as we get into monday, notice the clouds to begin to regroup right along the coast i. Monday is expected to be a cooler day. Today and tomorrow, teachers are going to be mild around the coastline, very comfortable around the bay and very warmer inland, temptress right now, 54 degrees to start your day in San Francisco, upper 50s over oakland, upper 50s to low 60s over the east bay, 63 this morning, a cool 50 degrees to start the morning over areas of santa rosa. Livermore and most of the inner east bay expected to be in the upper 80s and low 90s and have a stamp of what you can expect of the next several hours already by lunchtime low 80s expected with low 90s for the second part of the afternoon. Livermore expected to go into the low 90s and i have you going to 91 the forecast model has you go to 92. Seven for the afternoon in nevada today, in San Francisco, a very nice degrees, upper 70s for berkeley, gorgeous there, 93 in concord. This out by today, very warm 87 los gatos, 85 san jose, a nice 79 for folks in santa cruz. Heres a look at your extended forecast. Again, notice not a lot of change going on for the bay area sunday, so, this is your kind of weather it last all the way through the weekend before we begin to see some changes, temperatures do begin to cool just a little bit, a little closer to the seasonal average, not bad at all, 60s along the coast, still 70s around the bay, mid to upper 80s expected for inland cities. Back to you. Looks like it will be okay, think that. Coming up next, holiday excursions to lake tahoe, the concerns from some of the locals usually welcome the tourists, more on that plus major changes coming to the bay area bus lines, the cuts ec transit is considering and why some Service Lines may never come back. 7 22, San Francisco city Officials Say they completed the first phase of a effort to move the homeless off of the streets of the tenderloin, the conical reports a 65 of those in the tenderloin have been removed and hundreds of people relocated to hotel rooms or safe sleeping sites. The effort will continue but on a less intensive scale theres a 70 reduction of tents by july 20. Most of the Transit Service pups during the pandemic may never come back meeting muni is facing a 2 million loss, so far the Transit Agency is avoiding layoffs but many riders who left are not expected to come back anytime soon. Administer say its a big challenge to maintain bus routes operating right now let alone try to bring the bus lines cut back in april. We will be living on her credit cards the next two years ago we are gutting fund reserves, gutting Capital Budget and using it for the operating budget. The ministers are still figuring out ways to improve service including running metro trains again beginning in august but muni says it needs help from the city and voters will follow if a financial cliff in the year 2022. Also massive budget cuts, bus lines affected the most with service between oakland and San Francisco, along with lower volume roots in the east bay hills, ac transit expected to hold a public hearing and ac transit is losing 5 million each month in lost fares. San Francisco Police shut down a second underground nightclub. The club was operating out of the building in the bayview in violation of the Public Health order. Law enforcement took out four gambling machines, dj equipment, 50 barstools and other nightclub equipment. Authorities say the underground club is run by the same people operating another illegal club in the bayview shutdown in april. San Francisco Police investigating an animal theft and elder abuse case. The 54yearold is accused of taking his 82yearold roommates German Shepherd mix out for a walk and return without him. The dog may have been given to a homeless woman on 19th avenue according to police, this photo is similar to the German Shepherd labrador mix. He was arrested for dog theft, elder abuse and possible embezzlement. If you have any information where this dog is called the San Francisco police department. A two alarm fire in San FranciscoMission District left more than one dozen people without a home on this Holiday Weekend. The flames broke out at 2 15 yesterday afternoon at a building at 2966 Mission Street, the address of the old jerusalem restaurant. People live upstairs, the Fire Department says the displaced victims are getting