. >>> i'm kristen sze. hope you had a good weekend. welcome to our daily program called "gettg swers." we're askingts your questions e get answers in realtime. we'll talk with special correspondent dr. alok patel about colon cancer and we'll ask him about the latest of covid-19 news including surprising statements with the cdc this past weekend. and joining us know, we'll hear from a salon owner and certainly two very different paths today. josie, i want to ask you, your city, san francisco is currently under the new system unveiled by governor newsom red. red is the second highest tier in terms of covid transmission. not the most serious but second most serious. as such, under the state rules indoor operations should be allowed if the county allows it for your services. however, that is not the case with you. what is the status? >> so yeah, it was announced that we were able to do our services outdoors in san francisco. however, that's just not very realist realistic. eyelash extensions, getting really powpular and dining outside as w

i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers." this is an appropriately titled show today because we have a lot of questions as governor gavin newsom announced a completely different system, an overhaul how counties and businesses can reopen. so this is it. the new tier-based plan is focused on sectors. there are four tiers, take a look, widespread. that's purple. substantial, red. moderate, orange, and minimal, yellow. you can see there are guidelines for each tier, looking at the positivity and the number of new cases. substantial, meaning some non-essential indoor business operations are closed instead of being mostly closed. the daily new case rate needs to be between four and seven cases per 100,000 people along with a 5% to 8% positivity rate. in theory, you then graduate to moderate and then move down to minimal. but there's a mandatory 21 day waiting period between moving between tiers and counties, must meet the next guidelines for 14 straight days before advancing. don't worry. i'm not giving you a test on this. to figur

i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers." we're asking experts your questions every day at 3:00 to get answers for you in realtime. today, we're going to dissect the latest news on covid-19 from a mutated strain of coronavirus out of malaysia to president trump talking about botanical extract as therapeutic. a lot to talk about with dr. george rutherford, chief of infectious diseases. but two weeks of political theatre. this week doctic national convention, next week, the republican national convention. for both parties, a chance to define what they stand for and what their ticket, why they think their ticket deserves to be in the white house. so joining us today to kick off the democrats week and talk about what's making headlines is democratic congressman ted lu. good to have you here. >> thank you, kristen. >> you're a second term congressman representing part of l.a. county. lately, you've gotten a lot of national attention though due to your tweets calling out haters, internet trolls and even president trump. when presid

i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers." with dr. alok patel in just a little bit and then forecaster spencer christian on conditions including the smoke and the air quality all around the bay with the major wildfires but first, a quick look at the fires. sc scu, burned 65,000 acres, 25% contained. a 10% jump in containment with yesterday. right now, take you to a press conference getting under way to give you the latest on the scu complex fire. >> we'll conduct this in spanish. so everyone remain seated please. to give the perspective, but we're going to give you a quick reminder. this incident is a very complex incident that includes seven different counties. the counties are santa clara, alameda, san joaquin, rased, and san benito. right now, the scu lightning complex is the second largest fire in california history. second largest. quick update. the incident stands at over 365,000 acres in size and 25% containment. we have over 1600 firefighters fighting this fight and up to date, 37 structures that have been destroyed and 20,000

. >>> i'm kristen sze on "getting answers." we ask experts every day at 3:00 to get answers for you in realtime. so today, we have a very special guest. w. kamau bell. he needs to introduction but do it anyway. see how i'm getting funny by osmosis? no, thank you, thank you very much for that courtesy laugh. he's born in palo alto, social activist, comedian, author and host of the emmy award winning "united shades of america," welcome to the program. >> happy to be the kelly to your regis. >> i thought you were the regis and i was the kelly. >> no, it's your show. i'm the kelly. >> that's true. you're lovely, kelly. >> we have a lot in comment. i'm surprised we didn't scare you away after two months ago but so happy you're back. we can talk about anything, right? >> i think so. we'll see what happens. >> so we will. tackle that in the next half hours. >> i'll see what i can do. i can't promise what the viewer thinks. >> you are such a trusted voice and perspective, that part written by my producer. by i do think that's true. and

. >>> hi there, i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called getting answers. right now, we're going to get your answers by taking you to a news conference from cal fire on the scu lightning complex burning in the east bay, south bay and central valley. let's listen in. >> aircraft is a question that comes up often. for aircraft, over 95 state resources that are flying up and down california. over 2.4 million gallons of retardant have been delivered throughout the state and 2.5 million gallons of water have been delivered. right now, we have over 60 fires assigned to this incident alone. from arizona, idaho, new mexico, oregon, and we have 26 out of state resources that are en route from mt., utah and texas, for a total requested. another topic is damage inspections. process to get all the information needed and assess that over the counties. we have over 100,000 structures threatened up and down the state of california. more than 1,000 structures throughout the state have been destroyed. and this is an ongoing process. for our incident here, scu lightning comp

kristen sze talked to him this afternoon. >> i think it's really important for kids to be back in school. there are lots of things that have been put into place to make schools as safe a place as possible. probably more safe than if they're not in school, i think it's really, really really important to get schools back in session. >> criticizing putting the county on the state watch list, he said the numbers are arbitrary when analyzed as part of a bigger picture. >> meanwhile, all schools within the district will start one week from today, august 17th instead of this wednesday. schools will use distance learning and reopen in phases if conditions allow. >>> california is clearing its backlog of up to300,000 covid-19 tests. and the governor says the numbers coming in are encouraging. >> we're not seeing anything in the data to date, particularly looking back at those 295,000 backlogged cases. that suggests that those trend lines that we advanced last monday are not actually in play. >> the governor was pressed about the news that came out last night, late last night that dr. sonya angel

this is kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers". let's go ahead and show you a highlight from their first outing. >> fight climate change through a clean energy revolution. build on the affordable care act so everyone has the peace of mind that comes with health insurance, and finally, the dignity, the respect and the pay they deserve. will protect a woman's right to make her own decisions about her own body. and pass a new voting rights act. >> someone who watched that closely, senator harris's political mentor, willie brown, joining us now to share his thoughts with us. always great when you can do that. how you doing? >> fine, and you? >> doing just fine myself. i got to ask you, we were both watching the same thing for the past hour, how important was the first outing for the ticket? >> biden with kamala harris, kamala harris is such an impressive person on the podium. she's such an impressive person in her interviews, in her exchange with the media world. with the proper handoff to her, of what they want to cover. she could cov

i'm kristen sze. we're asking every day to get answers in realtime. we tackle several hot topics. covid tourism in tahoe. the blakck lives matter fight over a park in palo alto and presidential elections, specifically, vote by mail during the pandemic. also, we want to address how to fly safely during a pandemic. flyers facing a patchwork of rules on airlines regarding the middle seat so reggie aqui talked to an expert about how to fly safely now. >> since the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of you wondering, including me, what the chances are of getting sick on a plane from covid-19? as we've gone through this, we haven't seen a lot of studies on this until now. i saw this very interesting study done recently by professor at m.i.t. and look, chances of catching covid-19 from an airplane, what does your research show? >> first of all, no one knows exact exactly, the issue is whether or not important from the safety perspective to keep the middle seat empty, some airlines like delta, jetblue, southwest are keeping the middle seat empty on their planes, the narrow-body planes. wher

>>> i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers." today the entire bay area is wondering about the latest on these lightning complex fires wreaking so much havoc here in our region. but this just started a couple of hours ago. this is near coyote creek park in san jose. fire crews battling a small grass fire there. you can see it is right along coyote creek in san jose and you can see there is a dropping of flame retardants and also water ircrafey some cal fire yocaecau o t oe. proximity to populated areas, including the freeway, 101 there and cars and developments and structures, they are tak r fire. we'll be talking with cal fire to get more on this in just a little bit. of course as you know this comes with the backdrop of the entire state being stretched thin right now, battling more than 500 fires. that's according to governor gavin newsom. so a leading cal fire official will be joining us to answer questions about this new fire along 101 in san jose as well as the other, the three complex fires burning in the bay area. you know

. >>> hi there, i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers." right now, we're going to get answers on the scu lightning complex fire taking you right now. >> structures that remain at this time and scu lightning complex remains between the third largest fire in california history. let's get started with operational brief from our section chief, tim ernst. >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is tim ernst. operation for team six. as we talked about yesterday, there's a lot of busyness on the map and i want to really quickly review some of the things we talked about yesterday. remembering ten days ago, 18 to 20 different fires. you can see on the map, identifiers where all the fires were. all of these separate fires have been contained and no longer pose any threat. several fires burned together adds we talked about. we had split that into two separate zones. those separate zones now split or have joined together into one fire. this is all now being held as one large fire. a lot of good work has happened in the last 24 hours and we talked yester

i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers." we're asking experts questions to get answers to you in realtime. but we want to get you to some breaking news happening in the bay area. incredible images from sky7. this fast-burning fire in san mateo county. take a look. this started sunday but then flaredserr the town of la jonda. there are homes, but it's a lot of trees, pretty rural. right now there are evacuation warnings in place for the communities of loma, mar and deerborn park. no structures have burned but there are homes in that area. no word on acreage burn or a cause, but we are following all of this right now on on on o abc7news.com, the abc7 news app and coming up at 4:00. >>> now we bring you "getting answers." we have a packed show for you to discuss busy day of headlines. san francisco mayor london breed is taking questions. she is joining us to discuss everything from joe biden's pick of senator kamala harris for vice president to san francisco's current fight against covid-19. but first we are very excited to be

. >>> hi there, i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers." this week, we're focused on education. as the school year is about to begin and we're going to start with the youngest. president trump sent a tweet saying open the skochools but wt about preschools and child care facilities? today, we're going to explore that issue, and joining me now is marcy whiterook at the study for child care employment at uc berkeley. thank you so much for making the time. >> thank you for asking me to join you. >> i want to ask you, where are we now with day care centers and child care? because they have been running, first, just for essential workers. they were closed for a while and then just for essential workers and in june for everyone. but i know not every center, public or private, is open. kind of give us a quick snapshot in the percentages. >> sure. so i just want to say one thing which is that california officially closed its child care centers. there were 15 states that did close them, only for emergency workers. california did not do that, although

. >>> hi there, i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers." we're asking experts your question every day at 3:00 to get answers for you in realtime. we'll talk about president trump's relief order would mean for you and for california. we'll start with the state's handling of the pandemic. how do you feel about the disclosure that cases have been underreported and backlogged for weeks? or the way the state has opened and closed the economy and put counties on the watch list? somebody who has strong opinions on that is the public health officer of san mateo county, dr. scott morrow joining us by phone. thank you for being with us. >> i know you're busy and don't have . >> start with san mateo county dash boards. 6,318 cases to date. 120 deaths. and 60 new cases yesterday. given the state reporting problems, which of the numbers are accurate and up to date? >> let me answer by saying we don't look at one piece of data, but in context. some numbers may be off and some are more accurate. so the numbers, that's probably off is the case report. the

. >> and i'm kristen sze. 1.2 million acres. california has burned in just over the past week from hundreds of fires started by lightning. ten new fires were reported in the last 24 hours. at least 1200 structures have been destroyed. and that number is expected to grow as more damage assessments are completed. the death toll stands at eight. >> the lnu lightning complex in the north bay has burned more than 50,000 acres. it is 22% contained. a lot of progress has been made and officials talked about allowing residents back into some of the fire zones soon. >> working our way south from where the cash creek enters the valley,

. >> and i'm kristen sze. a quick look at the latest coronavirus cases. the u.s. officially surpassed the 6 million mark. california reported nearly 4200 cases today and the first state with 700,000. as for the bay area, the total number as of today, including santa cruz county, is nearly 87,000. >>> a new color coding system went into effect today. we talked about that last week. it's now in effect, giving businesses the go ahead, many of them, to reopen. counties are now color coded. you can see the key on t

. >> i'm kristen sze. we have the latest on the wildfires.ler weather are helping firefighters get control of the fires burning across the bay area. the scu lightning complex in the east bay and south bay is 25% contained and in the north bay, lnu complex is 33% contained. starting with the lnu that

. >> and i'm kristen sze.is video from sky 7 just a few hours ago, shortly after the fire was first it's now grown to more than a thousand acres. the fire started in the 60th block of hensee ring drive. wayne freedman will join us shortly from the scene to tell us more about what's happening now. it's happening at highway 128 at silverado trail, and the roadblocks are in place there. the chp has set that up, so only if you'rennn n uetzone. there. us live. right wayne? >> reporter: good afternoon. communications here are tough right now. we've been in the

. >> and i'm kristen sze. evacuat right now in napa county due to the hen see fire.t fire has burned to 2,700 acres. it is 0% contained. wayne is following the fire, he was there yesterday, back again today. what's the latest up there? >> this is the day that began with hope the fire had not grown much overnight.

i'm kristen sze. today is for all you parents out there. we'll talk about the mental health challenges for college students with distance learning and high schoolers and a group of stanford students helping high school students stuck at home, but first, we begin with bay area angel investor and micro-school advocate jason k kalkanas. fired up this tweet on social media on sunday. looking for the best 4 grade teacher who wants a contract to beat whatever they get paid to teach 2 to 7 students in my backyard. if you know this teacher, refer them and we hire them, i will give you a $2,000 uber eats card. that's a nice referral fee. he made early investments >> great discussion, important discussion. hope everybody is safe and family's safe. i know this is a very and many considering it to different degrees. others say you are widening the privilege gap or flaunting your wealth. one response on twitter, everything that's wrong with the bay area all wrapped up in a nice little tweet. jason, what's your response to that? >> yeah, well, i mean, i

good afternoon, i'm kristen sze. >> and i'm larry beil.gin with athletes who are taking a stand and there's so much going on with more protests throughout the sports world and reaction to the shooting in wisconsin on sunday. first, nba players decided this morning they will continue playing. there was talk last night of e playofillontinue.he season but social justice and the black lives matter movement. more games postponed today, the as/rangers baseball game, along with three nba playoff game, three wnba games, along with two

. >>> hi there, i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called "getting answers." we're asking experts your questions every day at 3:00 to get answers for you in realtime. today part of our week long building better area focus on education, with the school calendar about to begin, we will talk with the number one education guy in the state. about two weeks ago, governor newsom said they should do distance learning if they're on the watch list, but an asterisk f. you're an elementary school, then you can apply for a wai on. they finally discussed how that waiver works and what it means for the bay area. state superintendent tony thurman. so good to have you with us again. >> thank you, kristen. thanks for having me on. >> our timing could not be better because, you know, the state just issued the guidelines for that waiver process last night. literally, we are all just diving into the details now. and before we get into which schools should or should not apply for a waiver based on that, what's the idea behind the waiver? why give an exception to elementary schools?

i'm kristen sze. welcome to our daily program called getting answers. we're asking experts your question every day at 3:00 to get answers in realtime. for the past week, the question has been wl be democrat joe joe biden's running mate. it's the bay area's own kamala harris, born in oakland, raised in the east way. now she is his pick for vice president. senator harris made the first comment in a tweet an hour ago, unified the american people because he spent his life fighting for us and as president, he'll build an america that lives to our ideals, honored to join him as our party's nominee for vice president and do what it takes to make him our commander in chief. joining us to talk the historic pick are harina krushan and cooper tebow, political strategist. i want to start with your reaction to kamala harris being named vp. you were an original member of the kamala supporter's group known as the k-hive. captured by your daughter when she told you the big . >> what are you up to? >> kamala harris is the vp nom. >> i could just watch that all day. beca

. >> and i'm kristen sze. 1.2 million acres. that's how much of california has burned in just over the past week from hundreds of fires started by lightning. ten new fires were reported in the last 24 hours. at least 1200 structures have been destroyed. and that number is expected to grow as more damage assessments are completed. the death toll stands at eight. >> the lnu lightning complex in the north bay has burned more than 50,000 acres. it is 22% contained. a lot of progress has been made and officials talked about allowing residents back into some of the fire zones soon. >> working our way south from where the cash creek enters the valley, we've got black line from there that is secured from there to the community of fr winou to vacaville, in the area along the roader, there's a lot of heavy mop-up. a lot of structure damage and we're trying to get that area secured. >> cal fire says the size and complexity in this fire is not one they have seen in the past -- they have seen many times in the past i should say. one of the f

. >> and i'm kristen sze. evacuat right now in napa county due to the hen see fire. that fire has burned to 2,700 acres. it is 0% contained. wayne is following the fire, he was there yesterday, back again today. what's the latest up there? >> this is the day that began with hope the fire had not grown much overnight. we're saying 2,700 acres but it is much larger. you can see it over my shoulder. the hen see fire is moving. it didn't have air support today. those resources had to go to other areas that need the help even more. first came the smoke. then a few licks of flames. then they served notice. after a quiet note, this would be a day for moving and moving fast. neil and his wife kathleen knew all about that firsthand. >> looked down at the window and there's a small area of fire. it was rapidly increasing in size. >> they live a few yards from the lightning strike that started all this. >> it was thunder and lightning all evening. it really got loud. >> what had been one fire yesterday became three this morning. with the gamble fire and now the 15-5. >> yesterd

. >> and i'm kristen sze. this is video from sky 7 just a few hours ago, shortly after the fire was first it's now grown to more than a thousand acres. the fire started in the 60th block of hensee ring drive. wayne freedman will join us shortly from the scene to tell us more about what's happening now. it's happening at highway 128 at silverado trail, and the roadblocks are in place there. the chp has set that up, so only if you'rennn n uetzone. there. us live. right wayne? >> reporter: good afternoon. communications here are tough right now. we've been in the valley all afternoon, there's little cell coverage. we are on highway 128. the fire is behind us, about 20 minutes behind us. we had to come out just to file this report for you. this has been an unusual report. let's begin with more video from sky 7. it's not off that firefighters know how and when a blaze starts, but there's not much doubt about this one. about 6:30 this morning, 20 different lightning strikes. one person told me the big one shook the

. >> and i'm kristen sze. a quick look at the latest coronavirus cases. the u.s. has officially surpassed the 6 million mark. california reported nearly 4200 cases today and the first state with 700,000. as for the bay area, the total number as of today, including santa cruz county, is nearly 87,000. >>> a new color coding system went into effect today. we talked about that last week. it's now in effect, giving businesses the go ahead, many of them, to reopen. counties are now color coded. you can see the key on the left. yellow is about as good as it gets at this point, meaning coronavirus spread is minimal. orange is moderate. red is substantial. and purple, well, that's widespread. nearly every bay area county is purple excerpt napa and san francisco. >>> in santa clara county, it's back to business for shopping malls and retail stores and salons. they can operate at 25% capacity. stylists and barbershops must maintain social distancing guidelines and wear masks. a handful of shoppers returned to this shopping center in san mateo. it also reopened for indoor sh

. >> i'm kristen sze. we have the latest on the wildfires. cooler weather are helping firefighters get control of the fires burning across the bay area. the scu lightning complex in the east bay and south bay is 25% contained and in the north bay, lnu complex is 33% contained. starting with the lnu that expands across napa, solana, and yellow counties it is 33% contained. cal fire said they're leeting more evacuees go home now. but the wall bridge fire in sonoma county, which you see on the left there, continues to be a challenge for firefighters. >> make no mistake, there's a lot of work that has to be done. it's a very difficult country over there. there is no fire hiss troifr there. what i can tell you is there's a good plan in place. folks over there are working tirelessly every day. >> reporter: let's go right to wayne freedman who was at the wallidge fire today. wayne? >> it's been quieter today, a lot more smoky today and roadblocks continue. this is the entrance and there you see the cars trying to get in. many of them are. some of th

every day at 3:00 a.m., kristen sze hosts a live show called "getting answers" where she brings yourch on television and take part online. >>> if you were with us at 4:00, you had the chance to join in a live conversation. we talked to four experts about how child cares and preschools can move forward or even just survive as the pandemic drags on. >> we're doing a lot of outdoor activities, so kids are getting outside more frequently. of course, everything is very, very well contained in terms of small groups, stay together, and the children don't co-mingle with other groups. they're in their same little pod the whole time. >> she says children under 2 do not wear a mask but they try to keep the masks on the 2 to 5-year-olds. join our live conversations every day this week at 4:30 p.m. it's part of our building a better bay area education week. we're live on tv, on the "abc7 news" app, youtube and facebook. >>> all week long, we'll be talking to experts in education, leaders in child development, families and teachers. don't miss a bay area conversation about different education rela

good afternoon, i'm kristen sze. >> and i'm larry beil. we'll begin with athletes who are taking a stand and there's so much going on with more protests throughout the sports world and reaction to the shooting in wisconsin on sunday. first, nba players decided this morning they will continue playing. there was talk last night of e playofillontinue.he season but social justice and the black lives matter movement. more games postponed today, the as/rangers baseball game, along with three nba playoff game, three wnba games, along with two hodgkins hockey games. giants outfielder mike yastrzemski discussing the situation. >> we understand the world is a bigger place than the baseball field and when events of the world are overflowing on to the baseball field, we don't have control over that, and that's when we have to adapt and that's when we have to make our choices on how we want to handle situations. >> i think the thing that was most enlightening about yesterday is how many good, high-quality conversations happened around the clubhouse. fo

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