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There 200,000 deaths now. That would be an average of about 1,000 deaths a day between now and then, a little bit less. Thats just about so thats about right. Thats not i dont see that as particularly startling. I guess just the sheer number itself. But of course we can control the sheer numbers, totally. Right. 214,000 people is the size of salt lake city. When you put it that way, it is, i mean, it is sad and alarming and all that. The cdc also says people under 20 are now the Largest Group getting covid. Thats a new headline. What do we know about why that is happening . College. I mean, i think its as simple as that, that its as a lot of places have gone back to there is a lot of schools reopened around the country, a lot of transmission on college campuses, and its a lot. There may be some high schools mixed in with that, but its really mostly colleges at this point in time. All right. But do we know, even though a lot of them ....
Urging caution. Unfortunately it was positive. Im one of the contact tracers from the county. Reporter jill is a covid detective with a deft touch. Did you have any symptoms yourself . Not really. Reporter informing people they have covid, quizzing them on their contacts and finding out what they need to stay isolated. When she started this work in june she was swamped. There was such a backlog. Since then we have sort of gradually caught up with everything. So yeah, it was really bad. August has been a much better month for us. We have seen reduction by half an hour case counts. Reductions in deaths, fewer outbreaks. Reporter july to august, a turnaround in marin, curving covid spread at san quentin prison in outbreaks among nursing homes. Positivity rates are dropping, but this morning against complacency. We are still vulnerable to losing the gains weve achieved if we relax too quickly. We have seen that happen already, that happened in the month of june. Lets take that as a lesson ....
Thanks for joining us tonight at 5 oclock im ken wayne and im pam moore, a grim milestone for the United States tonight as the death toll from the coronavirus tops 200,000 that number is by far the highest confirmed death toll from the virus in the world, according to Johns Hopkins this to just take even more stark when you consider the United States has less than 5 of the worlds population but more than 20 of the reported deaths. Solemn comparison the number of dead in the u. S. Is equivalent to a 9. 11 attack every day for 6 to 7 days. And its roughly equal to the entire population of Salt Lake City here in the bay area the news is more positive as it pertains to covid19 the covid numbers and 3 bay area counties have improved so much that the state has moved those co ....
With all the fires in place, you have so much smoke. Again, the wind does push it around, when you get a west southwest winds, like right now, it is going mainly east, so like contra costa county, Santa Clara County, those will get a bit more in the areas of haze. Oakland, san jose, at 60 degrees, the wind of change is howling for some. The fog bank will retreat, but it may be a bit better for you with that westsouthwest wind. It looks like its going to start losing out over the next couple days, but today, temperatures below average across the board. Lets go over to sal now and see if there is anything new popping up on screens. Good morning, sal. Nds good morning to you by the way, steve. On the carquinez bridge and Altamont Pass, the winds are an issue, but not the bay bridge, as you come into San Francisco. We have ....
Several, in fact beyond seven days. It is 60 in oakland, 60 in fremont, a little bit of mist and drizzle. Visibility 4 miles at the airport, Half Moon Bay. And 7 miles in livermore. Air quality right here it says its good, but i still smell smoke in the air. So overall a little bit better right now. We still have a spare the air alert, and this will change to have some hazy and smoky conditions throughout the day. And our inland east bay not only today but tomorrow the east bay is looking unhealthy. Were going to get into a warming trend beginning on sunday taking us through the week ahead, and in fact were talking an offshore flow. Today weve got the 60s and then we have some 70s as we get to about 1 00 and notice the 80s inland, well were going to stay in the upper 80s to near 90s inland and were going to talk about a wind shift as soon as tomorrow in those warming temperatures. All right, liz, i smell that smoke too. Thank you. ....