Plus, the man who wrestled a shark with his bare hands. And from the cool cub beating the heat to the toothy terrier breaking the internet, all the trending video to kick off your summer weekend. Good friday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. As we head into the weekend, a new poll Shows Americans from coast to coast are growing more concerned about the coronavirus and a potential crisis this sumer. New figures released overnight show a record high increase in the number of cases thursday. Nearly 40,000. It comes exactly one month after memorial day when many people attended family gatherings and parties. Heres another sign of the growing concern. The White House Coronavirus task force is holding a public briefing today for the first time in nearly two months. Now more cities and towns imposing rules to require face coverings in public, an issue thats becoming a political hot button. We begin our coverage in the surge in cases causing more states to delay reopening plans. Th
Of people hospitalized with coronavirus. The drug which is already used in the u. S. Has now been approved in the european union. They will give it to patients who suffer from that pneumonia and require oxygen. Several weeks ago, the department of health and Human Services said the u. S. Is at risk of running out of remdesivir by the end of the month. At the time gilyard sciences planned to ramp up their production, so well see how that goes. In developing news, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus is exploding at san quentin prison. It jumped to 48 cases on june 14 and then 499 cases last friday. At last check, there are 523 active cases among inmates. And inmates are telling abc 7 news that the prison is rotating guards from infected areas to uninfected areas daily. And officials are even investigating if a death row inmate has died from the virus. Meanwhile, a team of uc berkeley and ucsf Health Experts told the chronicle they are worried that an outbreak inside the prison c
The woods just yet tonight more than 35,000 cases have been confirmed in california. One more than 1300 people have died from covid19 in the u. S. Are that more than 824,000 cases and more than 45,000 deaths and around the world more than 2. 5 million cases have been confirmed. These numbers are according to the Johns Hopkins global coronavirus tracker during his daily Coronavirus Briefing today Governor Newsome began to outline part of phase one of californias plan when it comes to loosening the restrictions put in place because of the virus kron fours Justine Waldman is live in our newsroom tonight she has details just saying. Well pam Governor Newsom says distancing is working pulling back too quickly. Could backfire but tomorrow he will give the very first update on how far california is getting on its road map to lifting the stay at home orders there will be 6 factors to determine how soon the state can ease its restrictions tomorrows update will be specific to one of the key piec
Tomorrow afternoon. Thank you for joining us at 10 on this tuesday night im pam moore and im ken wayne. The governor says hes using 6 factors to determine how soon california can ease its restrictions. They are expanding testing protecting highrisk groups, including Senior Citizens and people and facilities such as Nursing Homes ensuring hospitals have enough meds and supplies to care for patients progress in developing treatments. Ability of schools and businesses to support physical distancing and ability to decide when to reinstitute stay at home orders if needed. Tomorrow the governor says he will be specific to one of the key pieces of his evidence his administration wants to see which requires expanded testing and tracking of the infection. More tests. Will be made available we are seeing a significant increase in our testing remind and well go into this in great detail. Tomorrow and be much more prescriptive in terms of subpopulations and geographic distribution of tests and tes
That will be made as california is brought back to life. This is hard right now, but i think its going to get that much harder once the shutdown is lifted. This is the first of its kind. The new Pandemic Response unit one local city just introduced. Lets start with our shelter at home. When will it end . Today no definitive answers but we did get a todo list from Governor Newsom. What we need to do before the governor will end that shutdown. Newsom says ending it is not like a light switch but think of it more as a dimmer. This phase is one where science, more Public Health not politics, must be the guide. Now, the governor did lay out his framework on how to slowly and safely lift our stayathome order. We mentioned it was like a todo list and here it is. Six things that need to happen according to him before we can reopen our economy. You can see on your screen here, make sure communities have the capabilities to test for and trace infections. Be able to protect the vulnerable populat