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of course each infected student vaccinated. we're on campus tonight speaking with others about their concerns. counties are now urging employers to require covid vaccines. how one business owner convinced all of her employees to get vaccinated. a former 49ers and raiders coach passes away after a terrible bike accident in san ramon. tracking heat, smoke and air quality. i'll let you know what's in store for the weekend coming up. abc news at 11:00 starts now. it's still a little scary, just knowing it's on campus and it's around here. >> tonight, stanford is reporting 7 break-through covid- 19 cases among vaccinated students. >> the university says all were symptomatic and all tested pozzive in the past week.

students tell us there are still plenty of unanswered questions. >> reporter: the rising covid- 19 cases in california and across the country is hitting closer to home. thursday evening, stanford university alerted its students and told us in part "we are seeing some of this in our own community. there have been 7 new positive covid-19 cases among stanford students. these are cases among vaccinated cases. on campus, these cases are causing concern." rising sophomores say the university's announcement has left them with many unanswered questions. >> is it graduate students? undergraduate students? freshman? i would like to know who it is. >> reporter: according to the university's covid-19 dash board reflecting student cases, stanford's overall positi

is07. the university told students each newly infected person was symptomatic. covid has the potential to severely impact not only yourself but people around you. infectious disease better dr. yvonne maldonado tells us the risk of exposure even among those who are vaccinated goes up. stressing vaccines are still highly effective. >> it's still a little scary, just knowing it's on campus and it's around here. >> reporter: the 7 break- through cases, a reminder we are still very much in the middle of a pandemic. >> i think a lot of students are going to take it seriously. i think a lot of students on campus are worried about the situation. and tonight, three bay area counties are strongly recommending employers require workers to be vaccinated. they made that announcement

today. abc 7 news reporter kate larson spoke with business owners. >> reporter: san francisco, contra costa and santa clara counties urged all employers thursday to require covid vaccines. some, like lori thomas, have already made it a mandate. >> everybody is fully vaccinated and we won't hire unless we can see proof of vaccine. >> reporter: thomas is the executive director of the golden gate restaurant association. all of her restaurant employees were fully vaccinated by the end of april. >> we focused on education, but yes, we had some tearful conversations. >> reporter: there are two types of exemptions for any vaccine requirement: medical and religion. but those are rare. >> this disease is evolving in a way to make it more deadly

and more contagious. >> reporter: david is the director for the stanford center for metrics. it is ethical to require it. and there's precedent. >> we do that with measles vaccines, with patients with tuberculosis who are unwilling to get vaccinations. if everybody in the country had been vaccinated, covid would now be a thing of the past. >> reporter: the key is to help employees with money, time and education. >> we did a lot of support of work that way. >> reporter: thomas says she didn't lose one employee over her covid vaccine requirement. many people on social media agree. 80% of respondents said employers should require the vaccine. on the peninsula, starting

monday, san mateo county will require masks in all county buildings regardless of vaccination status. rising cases and hospitalizations are to blame as is the contagious delta variant. 88% of people in the county over the age 12 are fully vaccinated. tonight the delta variant is fueling a new summer covid surge. cases are up in almost all of the country, 46 states. >> reporter: nearly half of all counties across the country are reporting high or substantial community transmission. los angeles county is seeing a 20-fold spike in cases over the last month. >> whether you are vaccinated or not, please know we together are not out of the woods yet. we are yet at another pivotal moment in this pandemic. >> reporter: a cdc advisory panel suggests a booster shot could help protect americans with compromised immune systems, but adds more data is

needed. dr. anthony fauci is asked about booster shots. well is no reason to believe people who have taken the j&j vaccine are in need of a booster dose of any sort. >> reporter: a rare auto immune disorder. out of roughly 13 million doses of the j&j vaccine administrated, there have been just 100 reported cases of the disorder. 95 were serious, including one death. still, the panel expressed strong support for continued use of the vaccine. well is no vaccine that we have today that doesn't have some very small risk of an adverse outcome. every vaccine we have today that has been approved has had major, major benefits. >> reporter: tonight the period weighing in. >> we follow the science. we're going and investigating every aspect of any change that could or might take place.

>> reporter: meanwhile, the nfl is -- forfeited games and players not getting paid. the nfl commissioner says more than 75% of the erarat least pathe 49ers and raiders has passed away. greg knapp was critically injured when he was hit by a car over the weekend in san ramon. jared stone spoke with close friend who is are remembering the beloved coach. >> reporter: flowers are all that's left near the san ramon site where 58-year-old greg knapp was hit while riding his bicycle last saturday, a ride that proved to be fatal knapp. >> the nfl lost a good dude. >> reporter: that from curt morrison. he says it was that good dude that always gave it his all. >> he was one of those coaches

that every day, he was going to give his best. and even the days the team didn't have a lot of juice, greg knapp was going to come with the juice. >> reporter: this is what the bicycle accident scene looked like on saturday. police do not believe the 22- year-old driver who collided with knapp was under the innocence of drugs or alcohol, but haven't said what went wrong. >> he didn't know anything about soccer, but again he knew how to treat people. he knew how to coach and be a leader. and i learned so much from him. i'll never forget. >> somebody who sounds like they really had a lasting impact on your life. >> absolutely. >> reporter: and someone who likely had a lasting impact on so many as 25-plus years of nfl coaching, nearly 10 years at

sacramento state. abc 7 news. let's move now to the two big wildfires burning in california. these images are from the uc davis strike team battling the tamarack fire. embers swirl around the rig as firefighters try to access a housing development and save some homes. the fire is now more than 50,000 acres and is zero% contained. nearly the size of the city of san jose. it's the second fire in the state this year to reach the megafire zone. the fire is 17% contained. the smoke from wildfires burning across the west coast could impact the bay area this weekend. >> let's touch base with sandy. >> unfortunately it looks like we're going to be seeing hazy conditions and possibly some

smoke at the lower elevations as well. increasing smoke aloft initially possibly impacting us at the surface, with hazy skies expected sunday and monday. tomorrow, you'll notice not a s mainly over the dixie and fi in the upper parts of the atmosphere starts to drift in our direction. near the surface, the highest concentration of smoke will still remain at least through saturday evening in that general vicinity. by sunday, things could look very different. i'll be back with a complete look at the forecast coming up. welcome news for thousands waiting for jobless relief. the new edd policy to speed up benefits. new details on the sweeping internet outage today. and $20,000 for a garbage ca?

san francisco considers a pricey solution on a growing program. all of that coming up ahead. i'm anthony, mr. anderson if you're nasty. >> hi, my love. my daughter coming

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a major announcement from the employment development department tonight. it affects hundreds of thousands of unemployed workers waiting a long time for their benefits. >> it's been pending for a month now. >> reporter: kim lives in sacramento and has been unemployed off and on since march of last year. she says she made a mistake when filing her edd paperwork and is now blocked from receiving payments. >> i needed to pay my rent, car payment, utilities. >> reporter: now that money may soon be coming her way. the center for workers' rights filed a lawsuit and reached an agreement with the edd. so there's no longer an

automatic stop payment when there's an issue. >> who has received at least one payment on their their already, they're considered continued eligibility claimant, will continue to receive conditional payment while the edd continues to investigate. >> reporter: there are so many claims, edd is rolling out the payments in batches, beginning as soon as tomorrow. >> they will receive a notice, either on their ui online account or in the mail, alerting them to the fact that it is a conditional payment. >> reporter: meaning if edd finds someone is not eligible for the money, they'll have to pay it back. these payments will only be for continued claims, not for new ones. >> initial eligibility, which is when a claimant first files for benefits, those claims still require edd makes a determination about eligibility before issuing payment. >> reporter: those with claims

need to be monitoring their email so the claimant can verify their eligibility. >> it's important that keep their interview date and appear for their phone interview or answer the call so the eligibility determination can be made. >> reporter: 7 on your side. new details, several major websites are back up and running after a brief, but widespread outage. the sites of airbnb, ups, costo, delta and southwest airlines all showed error messages for about an hour this afternoon. c net's editor at large says while is may seem sites are going down a lot lately, we've just forgotten how it used to be. >> it used to be a lot worse and now it's gotten better. so when we go back in time a

little bit, it's a little uncomfortable. >> acame made it very clear this was not a cyber attack. san francisco wants to replace more than 3,000 trash cans around the city, but the cost to develop new ones is raising eyebrows. >> $20,000, you go to costco, get a [ indiscernible ] >> the board of supervisors committee has moved forward with the idea to test out trash canning this fall. they'll all be made out of stainless steel and will have sensors to determine how full they are. >> the goal i have is to have the most efficient trash cans in the world. >> once -- >> i might feel guilty throwing

something away in a $20,000 trash can. here with the forecast. >> dan and alma, i want to show you something that is disturbing. unfortunately i have to turn your attention to the western wildfires in canada and california. notice the smoke from the wildfires. this is the dixie fire traveling into the northern rockies. some of those fires burning in canada. it is traveling all the way across the country by jet stream into the carolinas. believe it or not, it is going even beyond that. we have air quality warnings scattered around parts of the united states. let's get you in where we are seeing some all the way in north carolina and even beyond that. the heavy concentration of smoke tomorrow expected across the midwest, the carolinas, all the way across thousands of miles into europe, going into saturday morning. u those weste

wildfires are having far- reaching consequences. take i a look at our forecast for the bay area, sunday into monday is when we're expecting some of that smoke in the upper layers of the atmosphere to drift in our region. do be prepared for hazy skies and if it transfers down to the surface, air quality impacts could be worse than what we're expecting. light breeze along the embarcadero right now. cloudier and muggier sunday into early next week. we have a combination of fog and high clouds on live doppler 7 right now. air quality has been impacted because of the tamarack fire as well as the dixie fire in grass valley. right now, auburn area looking at poor for sensitive groups. here in the bay area, it's good to moderate. so far, so good. visibility is all right. air quality will be fine. the next 4 days for now, good to moderate. 50s and 60s for most of you

right now on those temperatures as we look at your morning numbers. anywhere from the upper 40s to low 60s across the region. combination of fog and higher clouds. for the afternoon, it's going to get hot. 96 in fairfield. 66 in san francisco with a nice bryce. 61 in half moon bay. 89 degrees in santa rosa. we're watching the monsoon moisture over the desert southwest, tomorrow still staying there. as we head to sunday, some of the cloud cover increases go into monday and rain, thunderstorm chance. we may see sprinkles here in the bay area. heating up inland tomorrow. remains hot on saturday, away from the coast with increasing clouds and muggier conditions going into early next week.

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a teenager at a jersey shore amusement park gets hit in the face by a sea gull while on the slingshot ride. the gull hit just a few seconds after she and her friend were launched into the air alt75 miles per hour. >> when i got shot up, then i saw it. it was going the opposite way and it came back and hit me right in the face. it felt really light and it only left the tiniest scratch. >> the sea gull flew away after she took it off her face like that. she says she's a big animal lover, so she's glad the bird is seemingly okay. >> can you imagine. wow, more 9th inning drama

for the giants in l.a. against the world

good evening. the giants wrapped up their final trip to l.a. at least for the regular season for the second night in night i tim flanerie -- one mistake, will smith again turning into a giants killer in the series. two-run homer giving l.a. a three-run lead. we go to the 9th. jason is out. wait, they review it, safe. a for loaded for jason.

liner to right, that ball gets down, two more score. the boos rain down on jansen. three up on the dodgers atop the west. a's in seattle, young fan feeling very much at home. so did sean manaea who is throwing smoke. how about ty france, check swing. no score in the 5th. elvis us1-0 a's. 4-1 a's is your final. teams may be forced forfeit games if unvaccinated players -- >> at the end of the day,

everyone makes their own decision and, you know, that's something that you gotta respect. i am vaccinated and i know that i'm a person that guys can come to to ask questions about it, what are their concerns and stuff like that. party time in milwaukee. the bucks celebrating their first title in years. >> we gonna be dogs and our dogs are crazy! we got dogs, jimmy. milwaukee, we dogs! >> p.j. may

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quarterbacks. the 58-year-old was hit by a car near his northern california home on saturday and lost consciousness. he died five days later, surrounded by his family. now, to an incredible story from alaska, where the coast guard has rescued a man who claimed to be terrorized by a grizzly bear for days. >> the coast guard posting photos of the man's shack 40 miles from nome. he had no way to call for help. he scrawled s.o.s. on the tin roof. but get this, the coast guard helicopter had changed its course to avoid some clouds and found the man by accident. >> he said the bear had dragged him down to the river and kept coming back every night, reminding many people of a scene in a certain leonardo dicaprio movie. the man in alaska is doing well. >> and the man in alaska did not get an oscar for -- >> that was an intense scene, when he just like ripped his back. he had a pistol but was almost out of ammunition.

it's tough because when you go that far out into the wilderness, you meet the original habitants. >> got found by accident. it's better to be lucky than the alternative. >> bear's dinner. coming up, a brand-new friday polka that you don't want to miss. plus, the fire at jay-z and beyonce's mansion. why fire officials suspect it may be suspicious. plus, plague detected in colorado. you're watching "world news now." say something. 'said it before and i'll say it again. if i thought a reverse mortgage was just some kind of trick to take your home, i wouldn't even be here. it's just a loan, like any other, with one big difference- and that difference is how you choose to pay it back. find out how reverse mortgage loans really work with aag's free, no-obligation reverse mortgage guide eliminate monthly mortgage payments,