Often taking place on the sidelines. To what extent do you think a video summit can really replace these face to face meetings . I think its really difficult for a virtual for much to replace what a normal g twenty summit. Even if you just talk about the textual in case you, asians, on the final declaration, you cant just walk around the table and suggest a different formulation. Its really difficult to get to the same clear where youre working to get any virtual forward. And of course, if donald trump calls possibly the most important figure in the room, still place go for most of the time that makes it easier. Right . Christan third from the bench as one foundation. Thank you very much. Well, the g. Twenty summit certainly wasnt the first for uncle americal. The german chancellor, known internationally for her diplomatic talents, is marking fifteen years at the countrys how today, when the countrys crisis manager in chief or wraps up her final year in office, she will have equalled t
Milestone despite having less than 5 of the worldwide population. The u. S. Says recorded more than 20 of the covid related deaths, the death toll in the u. S. From coronavirus has topped 200,000 numbers said by some. To be an imaginable 8 months ago when the first covid death was reported covid19 is now one of the leading causes of death. According to Data Collected by Johns Hopkins university here are the latest numbers worldwide there are more than 31 million cases. With nearly 7 million of those cases here in the u. S. , california continues to lead the country with the number of cases, 792,000 we also have more than 15,000 deaths in the state and the bay area has recorded more than 97,000 cases and more than 1400 deaths and despite this grim milestone nationwide San Francisco has had the lowest covid19 death rate. Of any other major us city throughout most of the pandemic our conference send a is live for us in the newsroom with details on this tonight. Thank you thats right, San
Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
Temperatures with deny 67 currently pittsburgh our first spot back up to 70 degrees while still hanging on to the 50s for areas like petaluma and berkeley. Later today at 70s and 80s for daytime highs for most of the bay area even out towards the coast. A few 70s. Ive got more on your forecast ahead robin all right, thank you john were checking in on the bay bridge toll plaza and it looks good. Its finally delay free into San Francisco. We have some slow traffic earlier. Its all gone, so its going to be easy trip of 12 minutes off to fremont state. Im still tracking this overturned big rig in livermore it happened over an hour ago the vasco road on ramp to 5 in the west will be closed until further notice the rate flipped over spilled oil in the road so theyre still working to get this cleaned up you may want to head over to first street or North Livermore avenue and use those ramps instead of because vasco is closed until further notice and just a quick update for capital cord or 20 m
This wednesday and we will begin in kentucky were grand jury has chosen not to charge the 3 Louisville Police officers for their role in the death of brianna taylor. Taylor was shot multiple times by officers who burst into her home on march 13th while conducting a no knock warrant in a narcotics investigation. Prosecutors say 2 of the officers who fired their weapons were justified in using force because they were protecting themselves. However, former officer seen here Brett Hankinson who was fired earlier this year for his role in the shooting was charged with 3 counts of wanton endangerment which means extreme indifference to the value of human life. But this was for firing into the apartments of taylors neighbors. These long awaited charges were immediately met with frustration and disappointment. As for months protesters have pressured kentuckys attorney general Daniel Cameron to arrest the 3 officers and now none of them are facing criminal charges in taylors death. And this tea