Detained. And hong kongs chief executive kerry lamb invokes emergency laws to postpone septembers election for a year. The coronavirus has already had a profound impact on the Global Economy its changed the way we live work and travel now the World Health Organization says the up he will will reverberate for generations at a meeting at the. Emergency committee the director general. Said the pandemic was a once in a Century Health crisis effects of which will be felt for decades to come but there was some optimistic news from americas top Infectious Disease expert dr anthony believes a vaccine could be available within months were also starting to get more of a picture on the impact of covert 19 on the economy the pandemic has plunged the eurozone into a historic recession the sharpest drop in 25 years of records elsewhere about 4000000 people in the north of england are returning to corona virus restrictions because of a surge in infections there but we begin in the United States where
Coming home. A san quentin inmate who is up for parole in just a few months is dying of covid19 at a bay area hospital. His daughter now forced to make a very difficult decision tonight weather or not to keep him on life support kron fours michelle kingston is at san quentin with more on this heartbreaking story. Want to swartz is father has been battling coronavirus for weeks now he told his daughter with a nod of his head that he doesnt want to live like this anymore. My dad is not brain dead that he is there he just has control of his body and he will not back to want to short his father is 74 years old she says he contracted coronavirus at san quentin in june and has been fighting for his life for weeks unable to speak he listens to his daughter on facetime calls every day and nods in blanks to communicate the 2 of them are very close despite his incarceration there are so many people that are dying alone and so it is. The hardest part of the as of tuesday, there are more than 2200
Southwest travis to 25. Concord, napa have an onshore breeze. A little onshore breeze oakland and novato. A lot of activities in the mountains. Pretty good thunderstorm activity. For us, near normal temps. Just not lot of change. The average is slightly below for some. Okay. Over to sal, so far so good out there, sal, is there something new on the screens . No. Itnow, we do have traffic that is moving along very well. And we are easing into a monday. Lets go to the bay bridge. And you can see there are people there. But theres not a crowd. Thats probably the way you would like it. There have been no major problems here on interstate 880. So we are off to a noise start. Its 5 01, lets go back to the headlines. Thanks, sal. New this morning, Antioch Police investigating a double shooting outside of a 7eleven. It left a woman dead and a man seriously injured. Now the two victims were in their car outside of the store, which is locate on buchanan road and gentry town drive. This is around
As well as the early human data we feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021. Well she is being questioned by congress of the u. S. Response to the pandemic mike hanna in washington has more on his testimony. There were confirmation on some very important factors one is that there is a lag and testing this was confirmed by the assistant secretary of Health Services that test results are taking between 3 to 5 days on average to come back and sometimes as many as 15 Health Experts have been adamant that in order to come to grips with this pandemic of the United States more than 2000000. 00 tests per day need to be conducted at the moment that figure is way below 1000000 so certainly theres a shortfall in the testing and in the results of the testing despite the repeated comments from the white house to this particular another point of major difference what was the president trying treated in well try and during the hearing objec
Outside the white house. The new details this morning. Chicago crackdown. Overnight the city under curfew, bridges lifted after that mass looting leading to more than 100 arrests. Violent storms wreaking havoc in the midwest leaving more than a million without power. Winds blowing at more than 100 Miles Per Hour, flipping this semi truck on an iowa highway in blinding rain and ripping this roof off a chicago building. And overnight a wildfire shutting down an interstate in ning, the red flag warnings for fire danger in the west. Ginger is tracking it all. Faceoff. 14 popular face coverings put to the test. The new demonstration using lasers to see how effective they are and the one mask researchers found that was actually worse than no mask at all. Game over . One of the top conferences in College Football reportedly on the verge of canceling the entire season. Will other conferences follow if the big ten backs out, ivorin for a chance to take the field. The commissioner of the powerfu