Hey, connell. Cohn cohn were connell were getting hit grim milestones with the covid19 it would appear. Total number of cases will top 200,000 by end of the day. The in new york city the death toll has topped 1000. 43,000 plus infections, death toll at 1096. Now one of the issues here locally has been how to keep the firstresponders safe. If you look at the nypd, the new York City Police department, 15 of the workforce has called out sick. You know that adds up to about 5000 workers. So a little bit more than that. Over 1000 Uniformed Police officers in new york have tested covid19 positive. And some others told us they have had trouble actually getting the test or, you know, waiting a number of days to get the results back. They have to sit out on the job while they wait out the results in some cases. Similar situation at the fire department. Similar situation at ems. All of that is going on. While help is coming in on the medical side, we talked all week long about the huge hospital
The golden gate bridge. Definitely cooler this morning. Temperatures in the mid50s to near 70 at 7 00. 62 at the coast. 72 around the bay, and we will get watcher, and 80 around the bay, and 64 at the coast and 60s and 70s. Another comfortable evening just like last night on the way. Lets get to the commute. Hi, francis. Heres a live shot of westbound 80 for headlights moving westbound through berkeley and emeryville. The drive time right now from the carquinez bridge westbound down to the maze is already 34 minutes, and we have slowing out there, including waiting times at the bay bridge toll plaza. Its backed up with metering lights already on. The san mateo bridge shows things crowded on the righthand side. Developing news, the ntsb will arrive in Southern California today to investigate the deadly boat fire near santa cruz island. 25 people confirmed dead. It will take a while to identify them because of the conditions of the body. Nine people are still missing this morning. Among
Street from the historic peoples park. Thats where officers began moving in to remove the protesters who had taken over the building about 24 hours before. Abc seven News Reporter Tara Campbell has the latest on the protester arrests. Genocide is happening here. Propalestinian chants rang out thursday as Police Arrested protesters occupied an abandoned building at uc berkeley. Police making 12 arrests, clearing a building at the anna head alumni complex around 830, a School Spokesperson saying protesters were arrested for trespassing, breaking and entering and vandalism. Meanwhile, police work to control a couple of dozen protesters gathered at the scene, some tense moments as police tried to push back the crowd. Protesters didnt want to speak on camera, but we did speak with a berkeley resident. Its going to keep happening until, theres a ceasefire or the war ends. Berkeley is a traditionally a protest city. So i think its going to be a lot of berkeley incidents, just throughout the s
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The bay area, but now found living halfway around the world. And investigators say he may have admitted to his crime on facebook. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im dan ashley, and im ama daetz tonight. This suspect originally from saratoga, is being held in held in jail in france. Theres been a warrant for him for more than three years now. The description of his alleged actions some may find upsetting. Authorities say the victim showed them a facebook message from him that said, quote, so i raped you. End quote. Abc seven News Reporter j. R. Stone is following the story, joins us live tonight with those details jr. Umma dan there are certainly still questions out there on why in a digital age like the one that were seemingly in, it took authorities nearly three years to find this man. Nevertheless he is in custody right now. The man blurred out in this photo, 31 year old ian cleary, who was wanted by u. S. Marshals, has now been caught in france, according to the associated p