Right catherine can the garage door here of Speaker Pelosis home on broadway street covered with black garbage bags and taped but underneath all of that messages of anger and frustration over stimulus checks and also wanting the rent to be canceled throughout this coronavirus pandemic and it appears that right now the problems of 2020 are carrying over into 2021. House speaker Nancy Pelosis home in San Franciscos upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood targeted by vandals this was the scene early friday morning the garage door covered with spray painted messages, including cancel rent and we want everything this image from twitter also showing a pigs head and fake blood spilled on the driveway and uncomfortable side on the first day of 2021, its a fairly. Cowardly way to go about expressing your page opinion. Water calls it has lived in this neighborhood for almost 40 years she seen the speakers house become the site of several recent protests in september people expressed outrage over pe
Of covid19 in cole alcohol, the first case of the variant as seen in british and they are wondering if that variant is why cases have exploded so rapidly in Southern California. Mel know woodrow is in the newsroom with more concern about that variant. Reporter its just another reason to be cautious as we round out this Holiday Season. With the first United States case of a more contagious covid variant just detected in colorado, California Health officials are warning well likely see the same thing. It is very likely that it could be here, but its not yet detected. Now, this is not a surprise. All viruses mutate over time. Reporter its one of several warnings that they are issuing on the heels of the new year. Please, over the last few days before the new years and the celebrations that are planned, we hope some are cancelled, some are done differently so that we can maintain and bring down this spread, but we know and expect that some of that will happen. We cannot afford to have a ch
Remain because those projections do not so the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California have projected four weeks out icu capacity over 15 . Santa clara countys office of Emergency Management says the south bay is down to 21 icu beds, 7 capacity. Were still at the point where we can come back from the brink. Its definitely not a time to give up hope. Shutting all this down, what else can we do . I dont know what. Reporter one encouraging trend is that the icu numbers in the south bay have improved slightly since the thanksgiving surge. But the possible christmas surge is scary. In san jose, robert handa, nbc bay area news. We feel for those small businesses. There are signs the bay area surge is starting to slow down. But a big disclaimer here, we have not yet felt the full impact of the holidays. Those numbers will soon start coming in. Lets look at contra costa county. Here are the new cases since october, an average of 286 cases a day, thanksgiving here, and december 15th, just a
Covid. Where it was detected and what you need to know. And these next few days are critical. The reason Health Officials say theyre especially concerned about this week. It might be sitting yoin in your bank account right now. The Treasury Department issuing the first round of those stimulus checks tonight. The amount up to 600 per person. Most will receive the payment as a direct deposit, but paper checks will be mailed beginning tomorrow for those without a government registered bank account. Here in the bay area people of course wishing the dollar amount was higher. Thats not going to last very long. How are people going to pay rent . How am i going to buy groceries, my uber fees, my getting to work. I really emphasize that work over here or work in the neighborhood. San francisco is expensive. It is a different story in this part of the country. An capitol hill legislators are haggling over legislation that would increase those checks to 2,000 per person. If it passes the republic
Louisville, kentucky, apartment during a botched raid last march. The artist also wanted to show support for the black lives matter movement. But two weeks later, on the day after christmas, vandals broke off pieces of the sculpture. In a tweet, mayor libby schaaf called it a vicious attack span act of hatred. The artist start add go fundmy campaign with a goal of 5,000 to fix the vandalism. It has now topped 20,000. He said he plans to make a new sculpture out of bronze this time. Any remaining money will go to taylors family. Police have been looking into this latest development, initially calling the first incident investigation as an investigation into vandalism. This can be a memorial of joy. Reporter the artist said it will take months to create a new sculpture. The city said tuesday the original sculpture did not undergo the citys typical approval process for public art. Rob roth, ktvu fox 2 news. A top democratic strategist and adviser to Governor Newsom pled not guilty today t