Employees who have been out of work now for months. The Second QuarterGross Domestic Product plummeted 32. 9 between april and june. Thats almost a full third and its the sharpest decline we have seen in u. S. History. The drop in gdp is nearly 4 times worse than it was at the peak of the financial crisis in the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the previous record was 10 in the First Quarter of 1958. Turning over to the stock market and see how stocks are reacting to this dire news. The dow jones is down by almost 200 points, just a little bit more than that right now. S p is suffering a loss of not quite one half of 1 . The nasdaq is the only right spot if you count the addition of 52 points. Nasdaq is up by one half of 1 . You can see stocks mostly regained their footing after a very steep drop at the opening bell and after we got that labor news. Californias jobless claims were down last week despite a nationwide increase. Our state reported 249,000 workers filed firsttime claims during the week that ended july 25th. That is down more than 40,000 from the week before, but the total number of California Workers who filed for unemployment during this shutdown now tops 7 million. Governor gavin newsom has created a strike team to handle the backlog at the Employment Development department we have been reporting on. The edd is operating on an antiquated system that is preventing many people in california from getting the benefits they earned. The strike team or to modernize the technology at the department and the boys will start addressing a back log on paid c the number of coronavirus cases in california continues to rise. According to the latest out of Johns Hopkins university, there are 486,000 cases in the state. With an under nady nearly 8 people have died in the bay area. The recent surge in virus cases has now put all bay area counties on the state watchlist. California marked its deadliest day since the coronavirus pandemic began. New numbers from the state department of Public Health showed 197 coronavirus related deaths on tuesday, bringing the two week average to 109 deaths per day. The cases that we saw rise earlier in the month were cases that did also have a number of people who had severe disease that led to death. We have to take this seriously. Reporter the daily death toll has risen dramatically this month. Ucsf epidemiologist dr. Kiersten bivens says the averages dont tell the story of hot spots, including the Central Valley and other pockets. Even if its not in our area of the state that these high returns mission are occurring, we all have to Pay Attention to it in order to get it under control. Reporter in the bay area all nine counties on the state monitoring list. San mateo county was added wednesday. Seeing the required metric of less than 100 cases per 100,000 people. If it stays there for three consecutive days, and or operations at several businesses including hair salons and gems would be forced to shut down. Something that no one aspires to, being on this list, and if we are on this list forever, could potentially cripple our economy. Reporter the state needs to find a balance between shutting everything down and opening without restriction. He said he is sad his county has gotten to this point, but next week is proposing an ordinance to allow county staff to issue administrative fines to people and businesses for skirting mask orders and social distancing guidelines. Some people arent taking the virus seriously enough and if they are not going to take it seriously enough, we are going to have to take these actions. Reporter if San Mateo County remains on that watchlist for three consecutive days, that means this saturday august 1st is when we would start to see businesses shutting down. Greg lee, ktvu fox 2 news. The nation said a final goodbye to civil rights leader and longtime congressman john lewis. His funeral was this morning in atlanta, georgia following days of events to honor his legacy. Ktvus Elissa Harrington has the story. Reporter mourners gathered inside the Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in atlanta to honor john lewis. Lewis was known as one of the big six liters of the civil rights movement. He was all also a u. S. Congressman. Church bells rang 80 times to mark his 80 years on earth. An American Flag was draped over his casket. Attendees wore masks. We have come to say farewell to our friend in these difficult days. Then have even made grieving more challenging, at a time when we would find comfort in embracing one another, love compels us to socially distance from one another. But make no mistake, we are together. Reporter three former president s attended the funeral. George w. Bush, built linton, and barack obama. America was built by john lewiss. He, as much as anyone and our history, brought to this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals. We live in a better and nobler country today because of john lewis and his abiding faith in the power of god, in the power of democracy, and in the power of love to lift us all to a higher ground. Reporter the private funeral was invite only after days of public event to pay tribute to lewis. Mourners talked about his legacy, his nonviolent activism, his service to the community and his lifelong fight for equality. He kept moving. He hoped for and imagined and lived and worked and moved for his 11 Community Work he took a savage beating on more than one day. He insisted on the truth and the congress of the United States. Every time he stood up to speak, we knew that he was going to take us to a higher place of our understanding, of what our responsibilities were. Reporter im Elissa Harrington, ktvu fox 2 news also today, nasas most sophisticated mars rover is on its way down to the red planet. The rover is called perseverance. It took off just before 5 00 this morning ktvu has been on the story. Welcome back, allie, to tell the rovers mission re today. It sounds very cited fiction, but it is very real its a long and complicated mission that the bars perseverance rover began at 4 50 this morning our time. And, lift off, as the countdown to mars continues, the perseverance of humanity munching the next generation of robotic explorers to the red planet. Reporter it will take the perseverance rover seven months to get to mars if it lands intact, then its task will be to travel down to the bottom of a steep crater. The crater used to be a lake on mars, but is now dried up. In the soil is where scientists believe there could be signs of microbial life. Mars was at one time habitable. In fact, it was a lot like earth. And the question is we know it was habitable but what was it inhabited . This would allow us to ask and answer those questions. Reporter the rover will collect and store samples of rocks and dirt. Then as this nasa simulation shows, in the year2026 and other rover will land on mars to collect the samples. The samples will then be launched from mars is surfaced into orbit to be picked up by another spacecraft by the year 2031 by and interplanetary relay race. To bring those samples back to earth and that will be the first time in history that we have done a mars return mission. Reporter passes youtube page shows how the rover will have microphones and 24 cameras for nasa scientists to see and hear the entire mission. The process will take more than a decade, which is why scientists called this rover perseverance. China and the United Arab Emirates launched early this week. The opportunity to fly from earth to mars only opens once every 26 months when the planets are properly aligned. Reporting live, ktvu fox 2 news exciting times, allie, thank you. Still to come here at noon, the church of berkeley set on fire. Why the pastor believes the church was targeted and new developments in this case. Also, finally, a warm up across the bay area the end of this week. Ktvu met mark tamayo has a look at how high those temperatures could climb you have the power to know before you go when you wake up with mornings on 2. The pastor of a church that was the scene of arson early yesterday says the city of berkeley has done little to respond to what he calls was an act of terror. Church leaders say that they believe the way church was targeted after they displayed a black lives matter banner on the building. A neighbor who smelled smoke told us that he used a garden hose to put out the fire to keep it from spreading, and at a News Conference with other faith leaders today the pastor said he is heard almost nothing from the city of berkeley. The only notification i received for our church received was this report slid underneath the front of our church. No phone call to our church. No phone call to me, the pastor. No one from the city called us. The mayor didnt call. The city manager did not call. We have reached out to the Berkeley Police department. A neighbor tells ktvu he saw a man wearing a tan colored poncho setting the fire in a garbage can near the church is back door. So far, no word from the police. A couple in danville plans to talk to a lawyer about their feud with the Neighborhood Homeowners Association over to signs on their car they say they put two signs prominently in the windshield of their yellow hummer. One sign supports black lives matter, the other is a criticism of President Trump. The couple recently received an email from the camino ramon association. The co station so the signs must go because they violate neighborhood rules. I was shocked, my mouth fell open. Im like, really . I dont pay no premiums or no a dues for my vehicle. I own it outright, so they have no right to tell me what i can put or cant put on my vehicle. The couple says influential conservative members of the Homeowner Association are likely behind the email. We did reach out to the association and the property manager. We have not yet heard back from anyone. Met met mark tamayo joining us this noon time. Work, i hope you had a good time. Any walks, hikes for you this morning . I snuck a little run and yard work in as well. I knew it was something. Nice start to the day. Trying to be productive with this nice weather, mike. At least its not extremely hot. A good day to get outside for a hike or walk. Temperatures you will notice they are trending up as we head toward the weekend. Here is the plan with our forecast where we do have the fog this morning clearing back near the coastline. It is mild to warm, temperatures are at 62 to 92 degrees. This is a satellite, we have been showing you it seems like for the past three or four weeks, low clouds and fog in the morning clearing back to the immediate coastline. As we come closer right now, there is a fog make a typical summerlike pattern out toward a mere beach and even portions of San Francisco. That onshore breeze being ushered into the bay. Trying to clear back to near the coastline. Thats having an impact on temperatures. We have some 70s, san jose 72 and livermore checking in 74 degrees. Here is the set up, and its not moving around too much as you can see here an area of High Pressure nosing in from the south and east and an area of low pressure to our north. We are kind of in between these systems and we are seeing the impacts of both. One of those impacts, temperatures warm to hot. We are not talking about records or triple digits, but still 90s for of a drop off as head into sunday. That will be coming up for friday and into saturday as we say hello to a brandnew month. August 1st on saturday. Temperatures for this afternoon, we were thinking some 60s near the immediate coastline. Santa rosa 82 degrees and antioch 83. We are not talking about any red flag warnings, but keep in mind fire danger is still high with these warm and dry conditions, especially inland those dry hillsides, a constant reminder that we are in the middle of fire season. It does not take much for a fire to start and grow rapidly. Something we have to keep an eye on every day. Heres a look ahead, your five day. Saturday temperatures inland could be around 95, 96 degrees, and then we began to cool things off slightly into sunday. It looks like the cooling trend will continue into early next week, but today it is warm. Sti get ready for that warmup heading toward the still to come, a San Francisco institution hit hard by the pandemic. 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Reporter the sounds of sizzling seafood are the same, but the chef is serving up their legendary torpedo for carryout only. The dining room of this landmark restaurant empty in this coronavirus era and friday the kitchen will close with no date now for reopening being in here and seeing one or two or three customers come through a day versus three, four, 500 is kind of sad. The family tried everything. They told ktvu they were avoiding layoffs but even putting in their own cash, time and money have run out. With the end of their federal pay tech protection loan funds. That money just ran out and we werent expecting to be shut down for this long. The oldest restaurant that has been around since 1849 surviving recessions and earthquakes. I heard the owners are going above and beyond trying to stay open through all of this, so i was disappointed that a Great Institution like this was not able to get through it. They dont have a lot of resources left. Reporter loren thomas is part of the another one third were breaking even. Reporter the Restaurant Coalition which represents 500,000 essences nationwide is calling on congress to pass the traded small restaurants. Touted grill is hoping for a lifeline. In the meantime, getting sustenance from loyal customers. It is nice to feel all this love that people are sending our way. Ktvu fox 2 news. A coronavirus outbreak has been reported at a cosco in sunnyvale. This comes after nine employees there tested positive for the virus at the store located on lawrence expressway. The Santa Clara Health department is now leading up the investigation. A new report shows nearly 30 billion americans are struggling to find food to eat. The Census Bureau started tracking the data back in may and last week Food Insecurity levels were the highest recorded so far. Almost 24 million respondents indicated that they sometimes did not have enough to eat at some point in the seven days through july 21st and almost 5 and half Million People say they often did not have enough to eat as the economic fallout from covid19 continues. The growing need for food and housing is hitting all parts of the bay area. Just west valley y services say than 20,000 people are living in poverty in the arrows areas today they are reaching out in hopes of getting some for themselves to increase the size of their food pantry and for a new mobile food bank. We need the communities help to get us over that hump so we can make these Resources Available now. Even more with this new pantry will be allowed to reintroduce shopping, because this new space will be large enough to allow for sixfoot spaces between our clients while they choose their food. The Organization Says it is now 300,000 shy of its 2 million goal. Still to come at noon, the u. S. 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