Winding down and tiger woods is in contention but he is not in the lead. The latest from harding park coming up. Right now on the kpix 5 news at 7 00 and streaming entrce eight, tonight beirut is grappling with devastation from tuesdays huge explosion. Right now, the bay area is coming together to support the victims. Good evening. We are on the embarcadero in San Francisco with the vigil that is just getting underway right now. Reporter the vigil will get underway shortly. They will hold a moment of silence for 48 seconds reversing the numbers in arabic with that horrific blast happened on august 4, two days gich for help. Reporter like so many others, her friend and beirut couldnt believe what she was seeing the reliance. She was taking a video of it and from the blast impact she fell with a glass of everything. Reporter her friend made it to the hospital and survived the blast. With the death toll topping 130 and thousands injured and hundreds missing and hundreds of thousands witho
Time. We respect the right to initiate legal action, and we respect the judicial process to follow. What happens next with this officer . Most about if the officer ily will be prosecuted and that is not clear. Remember, the District Attorney has said she doesnt want to bl her office. She asked the attorney general to do it and they said no how you do it and that is in limbo. As for the officer and his daily life that we dont even know if he is still on the street because right now there is a legal action that prohibits the city from making his name or anything about him public. He could be on the street still but there is no confirmation on that right now. Okay. Live in vallejo for us. We first brought you the lawsuit announcement and stay uptodate by streaming us on kpix. Com and other digital platforms. Police shot killed a driver of a stolen car after he led them on a high speed chase. They tried to pull him over about 11 00 last night and the chase ended in nearby oakland. The driv
Plans. Tonight nearly the entire bay area is on the states watch list because of the surge in cases. The one county not on the list, san mateo. Boming a big draw forservices they cant. Some people even driving for miles just for a haircut. But as nbc bay areas Marianne Favro explains, san mateo might not stay off the watch list for much longer. Reporter San Mateo County is seeing an increase in new covid19 cases, which is why Public Health leaders fear that the state will put the county on the monitoring list in just a few days. And that means gyms and hair salons will have to close down again. In san mateo tonight, it was so busy downtown, we spotted several lines for food, something you can get anywhere in the bay area. But a lot of people were barber hair salons are open. So tony llamas drove 22 miles from San Francisco to get his first professional cut in four months. I thought, you know, let me try to get a haircut actually, mainly because san mateo is the only place where you can
Are we doing enough testing for the coronavirus . Some bay area cities say its hard to get an appointment. We look at just how long it takes to get tested these days. This as the clock continues to ticket for the last county not on the States Coronavirus watch list. What you can still do in San Mateo County for now. We were prepared today for what we believe in. And it was this feeling that somebody had to do it. We couldnt wait another 50 years. Another 100 years. And the bay area remembering d honori the late civil rights leaders, congressman john lewis. But we start with covid testing troubles in covid19. Good evening, im juliet goodrich. California reported more than 9100 new cases over night. Bringing the total number of infections to more than 375,000. The state also saw 120 more deaths, researchers at the Harvard Global Health Institute say california needs to triple the amount of testing thats currently being done to mitigate the coronavirus. Kpix 5s kenny choi takes a closer l
Inland. Its a good sign of a strong case of ocean air conditioning. You see San Francisco or you cant see it. Mist and drizzle. We do have low clouds and a little bit of smoke in the air which well talk about in about 15 minutes. That smoke advisory for the inland valleys. The low clouds never leave the coast. Temperatures trending down from yesterday. 50s and 60s to start the day. By noon well see the 70s and 80s inland. Instead todays highs for most of our valleys in the mid80s. Warmest spot today san martin and morgan hills. Cooler temperatures ahead, a look at air quality and sierra thunderstorm ihen. The rise of coronavirus cases here in the bay area now has state and local leaders scaling back reopening plans. Nearly the entire bay area is on the states watch list because of the covid surge. Yesterday morning the only exclusion is San Mateo County. Because of that businesses there are becoming a big draw for people looking for services they cant get in their counties. Some people