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call 1.877.only.att a thief busts through a window like this, and then steals thousands of dollars worth of laptops and tablets from this catholic school. at least 31 costco employees test positive for covid-19. public health leaders across the south bay address whether it's safe for you to shop. in the midst of major covid surge, san francisco has readied this new care facility in the c. a warm-up ahead. ai . >> this is abc 7 news. oures ng rord at several south bay costco locations. more than 30 employees have tested positive. >> take a look. this shows the four warehouses
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with so-called clusters in santa clara county. you see mountain view, sunnyvale, and gilroy. tonight word from the public health department about the outbreak. here is amanda del castill. >> clusters reported at four costco locations across santa clara county. public health officials defining a cluster with three or more cases of covid-19 reported over a two-week period. as of thursday, the combined number of positive cases was more than 30. >> the way we get these reported, if you're a worker there, you get tested on your own for the most part. you then report your positive case to your employer who then reports to us. >> reporter: covid-19 testing officer dr. marty fensterschibe says by thursday, the mountain view reported four positive cases. the sunnyvale location on lauren station road reported 13. in san jose, on center road, there were eight cases of covid-19 there. and gilroy on camino arroyo, six employees tested positive for
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the virus. investigations by the county found infected employees likely caught the virus outside the workplace. >> the official investigation shows that most likely was not inside the store, but we're still investigating these and we'll have a final determination later on. >> despite the clusters, he says investigations show these locations are meeting county health standards and will not need to close. fensterschibe says customers can continue shopping, urging them to do so safely. >> we want to make sure that people remember when you do go shopping in any retail store, to wear your mask always when you go in, and leave back in your c. >> we've reached out to costco, and to the teamsters union for comment, but have not heard back. in the south bay, i'm amanda del castillo, aibs. one thousand cases in ten days, and a new peak in hospitalizations. tonight san francisco is taking new steps to prepare for worst case scenarios. >> the virus is moving fast, and
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more people are getting seriously ill. >> san francisco has readied a new care facility in case hospitals become overrun with covid patients. abc 7 reporter kate larsen explains. >> let me be clear. we are in a major surge of covid-19. >> reporter: san francisco's director of public health, dr. grant colfax says coronavirus is spreading fast. almost 100 new cases every day. he also says people are getting very sick. there are 15% more people in the hospital now than there were just a week ago. >> if things continue at current rates, we estimate that on average, we will have more than. and more than 600 deaths from covid-19 in 2020. >> we're right at the edge at that point in time, you know. and then if something else happens, if there is a big influenza outbreak, if there is
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some sort of disaster, if we have to start taking people from fires, that's where you start to run out of room. >> reporr: north to creat more sanciscs hospitals, the city has converted this building here in the presidio into a care facility. it's ready to go right now for low acute noncovid patients. >> unfortunately, other ailments are not stopping just because of the pandemic. opening this facility will allow the city to shore up our medical resource. >> reporter: district 2 supervisor katherine stephanie collaborated on the new care site which if needed will initially open to 20 patients with a capacity of 93. >> it is not a drop-in acute care site, testing location or shelter. so please do not visit this location if you are seeking any of those service. >> reporter: but rutherford says overrun hospitals are not a forgone conclusion. >> we've got to get it together, and people have to wear masks. >> reporter: if i were a mask,
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am i borderline immune to covid? >> yes. >> reporter: kate lasen, abc 7 news. now to troubling numbers in other bay area counties. this map shows you the ten bay area counties now on the state's monitoring list for covid-19, all of them. alameda county continues to have the most cases in the bay area, now over 11,000. it reported 72 new cases just today. contra costa county reported seven more deaths. its highest total for a single day. and napa has had a low rate of infection since the beginning of the pandemic. the city's mayor calls this a sad day after reaching 500 cumulative positive tests. we are tracking every county in california to see whether it made the state's watch list, and how long it's been there. you can check out this interactive map on abc 7 news.com. nationwide, more than 152,000 lives have been lost to coronavirus. it comes as 1.4 million americans filed for unemployment last week and emergency benefits
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for 30 million are about to expir expire. >> reporter: one day after the united states passed over 150,000 coronavirus deaths, the country continuing to break grim milestones. florida losing another 253 lives in the last day, breaking its third straight day of record deaths. ohio with a record for new case, and california, north carolina, florida, and texas hitting record daily death tolls this week. one texas nurse now sick with covid-19 herself. >> the hardest thing to ever hear is that you're positive. >> reporter: one doctor frustra frustrated, seeing so many people on the street not wearing masks or social distancing, saying he is fighting two battles. >> a war against covid and war against stupidity. >> reporter: some people admitting they thought the virus was a hoax. northwestern doctors saving this 62-year-old man with a double lung transplant after the virus damaged his lungs. >> i didn't wear a mask or
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nothing. it's hit me like a slammer on my head. >> reporter: the association of medical colleges warning it could take down many others, staying if the nation does not change its course and soon, deaths could be well into the multiple hundreds of thousands. one of those deaths on thursday former presidential candidate herman cain. he tested positive for the virus president trump's rally last month in tulsa, oklahoma, seen here not wearing a mask. >> the trump rally, i was there. > reporter: he said the campaign took safety measure, giving out hand sanitizer and checking temperature. >> even though it was a crowded room of people, if they took precaution, probably not going to be a big uptick. >> reporter: it's rally, but local health experts had pushed against it saying it could be a super spreader for the virus. on two ways, on the financial front, 30 million americans got their final $600 federal
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unemployment benefit check last week. zohreen shah, abc news, langes. tonight a deadlocked senate left washington for the weekend without extending those weekly jobless benefits. president trump says he does not want november's election delay despite floating that idea on twitter today. he wrote in part delay the election until people can properly securely, and safely vote. >> i don't want to delay. i want to have the election. but i also don't want to have the wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesn't mean anything. >> the session flared up opposition from both sides of the political aisle. >> he says oh, wellbe we won't have an election. that's up to the senate and the house. >> we'll cope with whatever the situation is and have the election on november 3rd as already scheduled. >> the president does not have the power to delay an election the constitution says only congress can change the date.
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breaking news. berkeley police are investigating an officer-involved shooting tonight. it happened just before 9:30. police were trying to detain a suspect involved in a theft at a cvs pharmacy on schaddock avenue when a shot was fired. it's unclear if anyone was hit. the suspect was able to jump in a waiting car and take off. police are looking for a black ford fusion. new at 11:00, a cruel crime. 100 laptops meant for students stolen from a bay area school. it happened early tuesday morning at the st. thomas the apostle school along balboa street in san francisco. abc 7 news reporter jr stone has the surveillance video of the crime. >> this is surveillance video showing a burglar who had just broken into st. thomas the apostle in san francisco where he stole 100 computers. >> we offer our children these computers if they don't have any at home. so it was really painful to see that. >> reporter: and painful to see that just weeks before distance
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learning is set to start. school employees say the man busted in through the girls bathroom window, ransacked a number of rooms, eventually made his way to the second floor. the computers were locked in this cart. that lock was broken when the car was pushed down the stairs. >> busted open, and he basically boxed all that stuff and headed out. >> reporter: but employees also say the man took his time inside, drank an orange juice, left popsicles on the floor, marshmallows lying around, and candy wrappers all over the place. >> it seems that they were also looking for money, okay. and then in the faculty room there were more popsicles. >> reporter: about a dozen devices were recovered near a bus stop by a good samaritan that can be seen here dropping them off outside the school. borelli just wishes the thief would have come to her first. >> if they really needed something, they could have knocked on the school door and i would have helped them out.
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>> reporter: going forward, the principal tells me they are looking at additional security measures to make sure that this doesn't happen again. in san francisco, j.r. stone, abc 7 news. depleting their life savings, going into extreme debt, having trouble paying rent. >> the edd is blasted over its >> fear of another toor me foreclosure crisis 7ed on your side's michael finney examines what you can do now. can small children spread covid as easily as adults? the question is being raised as schools are about to reopen. temperatures on the rise the next two days. i'll show you how warm it's going to get as we hit the weekend, coming up. first, a look at what's coming up on jimmy kimmel live after abc 7 news live at 11:00 with guest host anthony anderson. >> tonight's show has 100% more me. >> i was last week number 17 op the contemporary.
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and make it a double for a buck more. order now with no contact delivery. in the north bay, dozens of students and parents rallied outside of drake high school in marin county tonight in support of changing the school's name. the san anselmo school has been named after explorer sir francis drake. now the district is moving forward with changing the name buzz of drake's dealings with the slave trade. people at today's rally want the name banned. yesterday they began the process of removing drake's name. lawmakers slammed the state's unemployment department, accusing its leader of failing the public. this is an issue abc7 news and 7 on your side's michael finney have been on since day one. lawmakers say they've been inundated with stories from people out of money for food and shelter now. for the firstti, e employment development department, the edd acknowledged that more than one million people are still waiting for
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their benefits. >> many of the people in my district have had no income, no income. since march. >> because of edd's failures, our constituents are depleting their life savings, going into extreme debt, having trouble paying rent and putting food on the table. >> people have called 7 on your side complaining that there is no one to talk to when they try to call edd. edd says it has implemented more tools and hired thousands of ckwith t this week we are dedicating our building a better bay area efforts to addressing the housing shift that's under way as we speak. triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. the latest figures from wereport.com show a significant drop in sales of single family homes and condos in the bay area. sales are down mostly double-digits in san francisco, alameda and san mateo counties from july 2020 to the year before. condo sales are also down
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double-digits in santa clara county, and home sales there are flat. but as michael finney reports, many already in a home are fearful of losing it. >> robert benavides walks into his meeting with a housing counselor from a-1 community housing services in hayward. the union city man is struggling to keep up with his mortgage payments. the independent plumber has seen much of his work dry up during the pandemic. >> started to slow up even a little before that. but this just made it that much worse. >> reporter: robert asked us not to show his home, but just recently succeeded in getting a loan modification to save it from foreclosure. >> i was threatened and dates were given for auctions of my house on four different occasions. >> reporter: he is fearful the current situation could push him back into foreclosure. >> but it's tight. it's close.
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it is affecting my income. >> reporter: robert's situation may not but unique. the mortgage bankers association estimates just under 4 million americans are in forbearance. that allows those with federally backed loans to skip paying their mortgage due to the pandemic. lenders give them three months to get become on their feet. those three months are about to expire for many, but under the c.a.r.e.s. act, homeowners could get another three month, and ultimately a total of a year. executive director nancy rivera of a-1 community housing services fears that could cause more harm. >> the way i'm seeing it is you're just buying time. you're just buying time. and once that's due, unless you have the $20,000, the $30,000 from the back payments, i mean, we're going back to 2009. >> reporter: the great recession began in 2007. by 2010, 120,000 homes were
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repossessed in the month of september alone. a-1 community housing services fears a repeat. so for the next seven months, it's hosting monthly webinars for individuals in danger of foreclosure. >> we're starting to offer more direct one-on-one counsel ling with individuals to help with the loan modification. >> reporter: homeowners who lack the funds can request a deferment to put the payments owed on the back end of their mortgage. >> so it's almost like you're starting all over again. >> reporter: christina tatro of consumer reports emphasizes that may be the preferred option for many. >> there is no requirement that those payments, those skipped payments be repayed in a lump sum still, benavides is uneasy. he has dipped into his retirement savings to keep up. >> so i'm staying afloat, but sometimes it's -- yeah, i get a little nervous. >> reporter: if you're having a tough time paying your mortgage, i want you to go to our website, abc7news.com.
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then click on 7 on your side. there you'll find additional resources, including links to foreclosure prevention workshops. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. after six days of memorials paying tribute to the life and many achievements of representative john lewis, today the civil rights icon was laid to rest in atlanta. ♪ he spent his entire life fighting not just for the civil rights of african americans, but for the rights of all people who suffered social injustice. lewis played an instrumental role in the passage of the landmark voting rights act in 1965. he fought for equality, for lgbtq americans and marked with students in parkland. president obama delivered the eulogy, paying tribute to his life and legacy. >> john lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better america.
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>> former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton also spoke. president trump was not in attendance. the words of black lives matter now appear in lights in the east bay. take a look at this. the glowing sign sits on top of a building on the north side of 580 at san pablo avenue. it's said to be 40 feet wide and contains thousands of loyd bulbs. the sign was designed by a group of bay area artists who wanted to make a contribution to the black lives matter movement. new details now. a study finds children carry as much or even more coronavirus in their noses compared to adults. the small study by lurie children's hospital of chicago found children under 5 years old could carry 10 to 100 times more virus particles. the findings raise questions about whether young kids may be able to spread the virus as easily as adults. >> reasonable assumption that they would be able to transmit the virus. >> so they're not immune. >> we just need to figure that out. and in that -- no.
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they have virus in their nasal pharynx which means they very well could transmit it. >> but experts say more studies need to be done on the transmissibility of covid-19 among children. all right. we're staying on top of that, but we are also taking a look at the weather as we get closer to the week, dan. >> we are almost there, latino we, ama? and sandhya patel is here with the forecast. sandhya? >> yeah, and i suspect you'll all be smiling tomorrow, including myself as we do hit friday. weather looks fantastic. i want to show you a time lapse from our mount atm cam. and you will see the fingers of fog rolling in this evening. and the marine layer has deepened. it's it's about 1600 feet deep tonight. it is going to make its push across the bay and into some of our valleys. tonight it is right around the coast and parts of the north and east bay. visibility is dropping in parts of the bay area. so definitely watch out at commute time. temperatures right now the 50, 60s. here is a live look showing you
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a murky view from our emeryville camera. you will notice the easter span of the bay bridge is a little bit fuzzy on the top. fog in the morning with patchy drizzle. a little warmer in the afternoon. and we are looking at summer heat inland this upcoming weekend. the hour-by-hour forecast between 5:00 and 8:00 a.m., the fog will be around many parts of the bay area, except for the far inland valleys. there will be drizzle around 8:00 a.m., especially near the coast. don't be surprised if you have to use your wipers if you are commuting tomorrow morning. now by tomorrow evening, fog has burned back to the coastline and just sitting there, and it will make its march back in over the bayside communities as we head towards saturday morning. temperatures in the morning tomorrow will range from the upper 40s to the low 60s. definitely a good night for sleeping, and tomorrow morning a good morning to just layer up. but for the afternoon, it's going to be warm. 92 degrees in the south bay and gilroy. 80 degrees cupertino. 83 in san jose. the sun will be shining. 80 in milpitas. on the peninsula, looking at
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upper 70s around palo alto, redwood city. 63 in pacifica, and the fog will linger well into the afteoo downto francis, 67 degrees. 63 in the sunset. 81 in san rafael. 83 napa. 86 santa if you l suy,il weather, well, you're in luck. east bay, temperatures will be about around b average tomorrow. 779 fremont. 78 castro valley. head inland, and this is where you'll find the warmest weather. 94 in antioch. 90 in livermore. i want to turn your attention to the tropics, where we have hurricane isaias. 81-mile-per-hour winds. is expected to continue to cross the bahamas. it's already drenched puerto rico, and it is expected to maintain its category 1 strength as it threatened the southeastern united states. rain is going to be a big factor for them. the accuweather seven-day forecast, a little warmer the next couple of days. mid 90s for hot spots. low 60s coast, and the temperatures will back off next week.
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we're talking drizzle and 80s inland. it will be a nice change of pace by then. ama and dan? >> definitely. thanks, sandia. tomorrow on "good morning america," anthony an army family who is always at the ready. so when they got a little surprise... two!? ...they didn't panic. they got a bigger car for their soon-to-be-bigger family. after shopping around for insurance, they called usaa - who helped find the right coverage for them
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tomorrow san francisco's oldest restaurant will close its doors temporarily. tadich grill has been open for 171 years. a federal ppp loan has been able to keep it afloat since the pandemic forced it to close. the owners posted on facebook that they will suspend operations until they can reopen for indoor dining. all right. a bit of good news there. >> all right. let's hope they can reopen after all this is over. such a legendary iconic spot. on the sports, ama. sports director larry beil is here. some baseball and basketball to talk about? >> yeah. excited about hoops. the giants get a look at that
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new extra innings rule. show you how that turned out. pl,ck ba.
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abc7 sports sponsored by river rock casino. >> good evening. another comeback by the giants. they got the first test of the extra innings rule in the series finale with the padres. you can't get into oracle park, but you can picnic outside. top six, former aye, aloha aloha goodbye. 5-1 padres. three rib byes on the night. back come the giants once again. mike yastrzemski, yaz ties it at 6. he was on base four times. two extra, and that's where things went terribly wrong. the padres score six runs in the tenth. greg garcia pinch-hit. bases loaded, two runs single. giants fall, 12-7. the a's have the night off.
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the nba is back. technically, warriors are still defending western conference champs, but the lakers and clippers both have eyes on that, playing each other tonight. and everybody on the floor kneeling during the national anthem. that included the coaches. all the players wearing black lives matter warm-up shirts. and to the gam we go. early in the second quarter, it is lebron. to the rack with authority. 16 point, 11 boards, 7 assists for lebron. the commish adam silver is in the bubble and at the game. i put him in charge of all sports. he's that good. 30 seconds to go. clippers down 3. paul george ties it at 101. he had 30. 16 seconds to go. lebron on the drive. follow your own shot, kids. good things happen. lakers buy two. last chance for the clippers. kawhi had to give it up, as you'll see. so george with a heave at the buzzer. he thought he was fouled by lebron. no call. the lakers win, 103-101. time for abc7 call my play.
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you send me your video, and i call the action. the villareals, they've been working out. >> jaden villareal is only 8 years old, but he haspede to burn, and is serious about working on his route rung. nice adjustment on the ball to make that catch. jaden goes to jack london elementary in antioch. working on the crossing route here. inspired by his favorite player, josh jacobs of the raiders. coach joe joyner, he puts the ball on the money, and jaden snags it. hey, let's not forget little brother juju, only 67 years old, but soft hands. >> nice, juju. >> villareal, we just called your play on abc7. me your viden put you on tv. abc7 spo
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and that is it for us tonight. thanks for watching. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley.
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four all of us here, we appreciate your time. next on from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live," with guest host anthony anderson. tonight, tracee ellis ross. and washington, d.c. mayor muriel bowser. and now, anthony anderson. >> hello, and welcome to "jimmy kimmel live." i am your host for the next two nights, anthony anderson. jimmy is taking the summer off to do whatever the hell white people do. polo? ice fishing? i don't know. so he asked me to guest host, which the word guest doesn't seem quite right. when you invite a guest over for dinner, you don't make them show

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