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Dont have doors and walls facing that, they are just bars. Essentially, you have seven or 800 men in a single space breathing the same error. The outbreak at san quentin begin after infected roommates were transferred from a prison in chino back in may. Nearly half of san quentin, more than 3000 inmates are infected. 184 Staff Members have also tested positive for covid19. Six inmates have died from the virus. Since the early stages of the pandemic, Health Experts always pointed to the importance of testing. California is doing more tests each day, there can still be delays where people are waiting for results. Ktvus tom baker joins us with more on this. Reporter four months ago, the president was wrong when he said anybody who wants a test can get a test. Thats still wrong today, as the virus still spreads, sickens and kills. The centers for Disease Control and prevention guidelines recommend that as states lived there virus restrictions, they should also have a coronavirus test turnaround time of two days or less. An Associated Press survey found californias average turnaround time from initial testing to reporting the results back to the patients was 48 to 72 hours, depending on the lab. Tim berger is with National Nurses united. Anytime over today seems to be outrageous to me. Turnaround times in the bay area of alone are hit and miss. Reporter depending on the lab, results can come back within a few short hours to quite a few long days. In many cases, the lab may not have the capacity or the personnel, or the materials necessary. There isnt a central reporting place, a central controller that can actually prioritize. Reporter one contra costa couple says it takes three days to get an appointed, 8 more days to get the results. Will humble is director of the Arizona Public Health association, a former Arizona State health director, and a graduate of Uc Berkeley School of public health. You dont get those results back for a week or so, theres a good chance you will go out into the community, inspector roommates, your coworkers, your other family members. It poses a risk, not only to the personnel providing nursing care to patients, but it also exposes our community, our family. Fast turnaround times are essential for contact tracing. Reporter with recent coronavirus searches, demand for testing has never been higher. Weve got this increase in testing thats happening, but not a commensurate increase in laboratory ability to turn that around. Many experts say that until a truly rapid test is widely available under the best of circumstances, expect in most cases it will take up to 48 hours to report. We need to do much, much better than that to davitas buyers. Tom baker, ktvu fox 2 news. For the latest on whats open and what remains closed, we have posted a story in the new ktvu app and will continue to update information as the situation changes. Now to an despicable tragedy, a sixyearold boy shot and killed in San Francisco on the fourth of july. Today, his parents spoke for the first time. Ktvus henry lee is here now with their emotional plea for answers. Reporter frank, this family is absently devastated. All the little boy wanted to do was watch the fireworks, and when somebody decided to fire a gun. I just want justice for jace. Reporter s father, heartbroken by the shooting death of his sixyearold son, jace young. The boy was killed on the fourth of july while watching fireworks in San Franciscos bayview neighborhood. My son was different, my son battered. My son was going to be somebody. I need everybody to understand that. Reporter the family was joined by city leaders along the citys waterfront, miles from where jace was shot and killed in the bayview. It shows the spot because the little boy love the water. The boys mother sat in silence, too distraught by this tragedy that has torn up the family. My daughters, i had to tell my daughters, i got to hold my daughters hand, she was there. Nobody understands. Theres nothing nobody can tell me, nobody could tell his mom thats going to make this family feel better. Reporter jace was outside of his Friends Birthday Party when gunshots rang out your angles and Woodfield Court about 10 45 saturday night. Jace was shot in the chest and out of the hospital. Yall dont understand how hard it is, to get up here as a black man and to lose your son to some senseless, something so senseless. We have to be outraged every time theres a death in our community. Outraged. This hurt has to be remembered. Because if you feel like this, theres no bay you want somebody else to feel like this. Reporter San Francisco police said they dont believe this was celebratory gunfire. Ktvu has learned a 16yearold boy may be responsible for the shooting and wants to surrender. Investigators have talked to his family. Lets help this family, lets hope this community. This has to stop, people. It has to stop. I dont know what else to say. Reporter within the past hour, sf pd confirmed they are chasing a number of leads but have yet to make an arrest. Reporting live, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. Its just gutwrenching listening to the father talk there. Im wondering, the police are saying it wasnt celebratory gunfire. Do they have any clue who this person was shooting at . Reporter they are not saying right now what the motive was, and what the target, but suffice to say, the little voice was certainly not the intended target. Its so awful, your heart goes out to that family. Henry lee for us tonight, thank you. An eightyearold girl was shot and killed over the weekend in atlanta. It happened saturday night near the area where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by a Police Officer in atlanta last month. Investigators say the little girl was in a car with her mother and another adult when they were approached by a group of people who started shooting. So far, police have not identified a suspect or suspects. The department is offered a 10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. A barrier doctor, shot and killed in the sierra, and his son hides from the shooter in the wilderness for 30 hours, waiting for help. Tonight at 5 30, we will talk to the family about this part raking crime. Racial tension is still high in martinez. The new sign, painted on a city street justice hate crime charges are announced for an incident over the weekend. Plus, trying to get schools open in the fall. The roundtable at the white house that included Health Experts and School Leaders from around the country. It definitely is to lie out there. The temperatures what you would expect at this time of year. They will warm in line, fire danger always a concern. Fog back at the coast. We will have all the details, after the break. My money should work as hard as i do. Thats why i use my freedom unlimited card to buy heavier weights online. Got it go time with freedom unlimited, youre always earning. I shouldve purchased lighter weights new guidelines were released today across the bay area. In some cases like Santa Clara County, more businesses will be allowed to reopen. In San Francisco, the mayor announced they are holding back on some of the reopening plans. Ktvus Maureen Naylor here now with more. Reporter Santa Clara County says its reopening plans will move forward monday while San Francisco says its plans will not. Health officials in both regions agree that coronavirus indicators are worsening in the area. Santa clara county officials tuesday announced things have been strained out with the state, saying its resubmitted requests for variance was approved by state officials, clearing the south bay to move forward with plans to reopen more businesses on monday, july 13th. Giving a variance granted does not mean the virus is doing better or the disease is doing better. As a matter of fact, is doing much worse. Reporter this, after confusion over the weekend and abc officers visited more than 100 this is in Santa Clara County, including in morgan hill were agents warned owners that Outdoor Dining was not allowed, even though it had been approved ida county for weeks. Am very sorry for the confusion this has all caused. I just want to say this is our first pandemic. I hope we dont have another one but we are learning while we are going. Reporter under the now approved variance, after dunning will continue and starting monday, hair and nail salons can open along with gyms and religious gatherings, as long as the indoor number is limited to 20 people, and 60 people outside. Health officials cautioned facial coverings outside the house and limited interactions with others are still crucial. When we go out to engage in business or to engage activity, we must do it differently. If we dont do it differently, our cases will continue to accelerate and we will be in big trouble. Reporter businesses deemed high risk will remain closed in Santa Clara County, including Indoor Dining and bars, nightclubs, stadiums and amusement parks. This comes the same day that San Franciscos mayor announced what she calls the difficult decision to postpone the planned reopening of Indoor Dining and out or bars on july 13th. Citing a rise in covid19 cases and hospitalizations. We have no choice. We are living in covid19. Reporter San Francisco is also reevaluating other businesses including hair salons, gyms, and the zoo and hopes 12 and up body of the week. San franciscos Health Officer says the goal is to diagnose an average of 1. 8 new cases per 100,000 residents daily, but right now, the region is at 6. 1 . Dont let your guard down. The virus is still out there, and theres more of it out there than ever before. Reporter in addition to facial coverings, Health Officials say there are three Core Principles known about the risk of getting coronavirus. Outdoors, safer than indoors, more distance is better than last when a minimum of six feet and the briefer the contact with someone outside your household the better. Maureen naylor, life for us. Not to marin county, where Health Officials are warning some businesses the just reopened may now have to close again. Napa says the number of confirmed coronavirus cases doubled in just three weeks, starting in early june. Authority said they are considering shutting down bars, Indoor Dining at restaurants, museums, movie theaters and cardrooms as early as this thursday. County officials that everyone can help reduce the spread by practicing social distancing, and also making sure you wear face masks. In sacramento, the state capital is not closed because of the coronavirus outbreak. A simple speaker Anthony Rendon owns office says five people tested positive and include assemblywoman autumn burke who is believed to a contracted the virus while she was on the assembly for last month. The Capital Building will be closed until further notice so that they can undergo a deep cleaning there. Its not clear if the state senate will also go on hiatus. Today, for the first time texas surpassed 10,000 new covid19 cases in a single day. It joined new york and florida as the only states to see so many cases. Oklahoma also director number of cases. The u. S. Death rate is declining though, from as high as 3000 deaths per day back in april to about 550 deaths per day now. Still, dr. Anthony found she says the situation in the u. S. Is not good. We went up, never came down and our surging backup. Its a serious situation that we have to address immediately. Dr. Fauci says they still have a window of opportunity to get the virus under control, if people wear masks and are diligent with social distancing and sanitation. The majority of people who contract the virus do recover. The white house said today schools and colleges should reopen this fall in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Fox news is ray bogan tells us education secretary betsy divorce joined the present today for a discussion at the white house. We want to get them open quickly, beautifully in the fall. Reporter President Trump in the white house with the first lady and teachers, and ministers and parents from all levels of education. I really feel for the parents of Elementary School children who are trying to work and provide for their families and at the same time having to stay at home and teach. Reporter members of his a Administration Made the case why students should be back in school this fall. When it comes reopening our schools, nobody should hide behind cdc is to identify way to not reopen. Our guidance is to enable and empower the reopening. We talk about schools being fully operational and fully functional again in the fall, we can also knowledge that in some places where there might be a flareup, it might look different for a period of time. That would be okay, we can plan for that. Reporter at least 39 states have released some form of reopening guidelines. Florida is mandating schools reopen in august. The governors of texas and new york arent sure. This is a very fluid situation. When we get the data, we will make a decision. Reporter the American Academy of pediatrics is recommended students be physically present wherever possible. Children learn more at school than just reading, writing and arithmetic. You talked about earlier, emotional skills, exercise, Mental Health support, and other things that cannot be provided online. Reporter dr. Goza says children are less likely to have symptoms or severe disease and are also less likely to be infected or spread the infection. Ray bogan, fox news. California joined other states today in suing the Trump Administration over school funding. The multistate lawsuit was announced today by attorney general xavier becerra, and he was joined by the state superintendent of public instruction, tony thurman. The lawsuit accuses the u. S. Department of education of attempting to take away relief funds provided under the carriers act for k12 public schools. These are funds from congress that are largely meant to help our immediate schools pandemic, and in ct of an providing these funds, congress made it very clear this money is meant to give states the flexibility to distribute these resources as necessary. Michigan, maine, new mexico, wisconsin and the District Of Columbia have all joined in the lawsuit. The trumpet administration is not yet commented on the lawsuit. Racial tensions are still apparent in the city of martinez. Today, city crews cleaned up howl road where vandals and painted white lives matter on the road. There is no information to who might have paid those words on the street. This comes after two people were caught on camera in martinez painting over a black lives matter street mural on the fourth of july. Police announced today two residents have been charged with a hate crime for defacing the meal. Nichole anderson and david nelson are charged with three did misdemeanor counts. If convicted, both face up to a year in county jail. We are looking at fire conditions right now. Especially in the south bay, some battling going on there with a fire thats becoming contained. Weve got much more humidity today. Look at that 36 in gilroy, 36 in south of gilroy, down towards salinas. Thats good humidity for this time of year for these areas. Thats very helpful. The winds are less, and the temperatures are still warm. Pretty helpful with that humidity as you know. Big containment last night with less wins late last night and the higher humidities as well. Theres no fog at the coast right now, normally that would be coming through the san bruno gap. Its blowing pretty good. We will look at the airport wins in a minute but its not howling. Yesterday, we at airport went up to 45 Miles Per Hour. The wins are significantly less today. We had 50 mile an hour gusts out in the all to not pass last night. 18 mile an hour winds up in fairfield. Pretty typical, lets see sfo. 23 sustained. Thats why that bush is moving. If you have 23 sustained, what do you think . 30 on the gusts . Weve got Something Like that. Its blowing, but not like 45, and not like 50 likely saw at the pass. The reason for the warmup is this area, where this arrow is, that area is that low, and its drifted up. I just pulled north a little bit. The jet stream as popping it up. Something like this. That ridge of High Pressure is doing what it does. It builds and and we talked about last night the area under the high is where the warm air comes from. With the jetstream bumps up, warm air filters in. When the jetstream goes down, what happens . Cool air comes in. Its really simple, actually. Its super complex but you can look at the pattern and go theres where the cool air is, or notice and claim is over there, and how its clear over here. The plan will be for this classic july pattern, temperatures in the low and mid 90s in some places, but nothing out of the ordinary, nothing unusual. We will see you back in with the fiveday forecast shortly. Not once, but twice over the Holiday Weekend we saw acts of racism against asians here in northern california. Coming up, an expert in the field tells us these types of videos may be startling, but sadly, they are not surprising. And coming up on ktvu news at 6 00, s

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