shelter-in-place order now at least for jefferson county, or are you concerned you're going to be a week late no matter how aggressive you believe you're being? >> many times because of when the results come in, you're almost always chasing this virus by about two weeks. but here in kentucky, we have already had our mandatory facial covering, mandatory mask order in place for two weeks. we have already limited our social gatherings back down to ten, reduced them. we just a couple days ago closed our bars and reduced our restaurant capacity. so i believe we are in front of what the national experts are suggesting. i feel like we're moving faster in that than many other states, but there's always a chance to look back and wonder what if, but i believe we're being more aggressive than most. our goal is to stabilize and decrease our cases while trying to keep our economy as open as we can. >> is your testing situation a deal where you feel like you're maximizing the tests that you

monday afternoon we had this fire taking place in jefferson county. by tuesday afternoon, still reports of only 25% containment with this blaze. no structures have been damaged. thankfully no injuries at this point, but still the fire is in place. we are looking at the dry pattern to continue, but hopefully the heat will ease. ahead of that we have a cold front through the central portion of the united states. look out for flash flooding with thunderstorms throughout the day. that's the forecast. hope you have a good day wherever you are. >>> that wraps up this edition of nhk "newsline." i'm raja pradhan in tokyo. coming up next is "newsline biz" with ramin mellegard, so don't go away. >>> bank of japan policy makers have spent two days talking about ways to rev up the economy. they say they'll hold the negative short-term interest rate in place and buy unlimited amounts of government bonds. they'll also maintain a roughly $1 trillion support program for firms hit by the coronavirus pandemic. boj governor said there are some positive signs emerging fo

set to serve a 50-year prison sentence but yesterday he walked out of the jefferson county correctionaluri and mya moore was there with a mask greeting him with a hug. thanks to her help his conviction was overturned. he served 22 years behind bars. moore first met him 13 years ago during a visit as part of the prison's ministry. a photo of her and irons together #winwithjustice. she is going to sit out so she can continue to advocate for criminal justice reform. natasha cloud, a woman on a mission as well. she is going to fight for social reform. she tells cnn true activism has to go beyond t-shirts and taking down statues. listen. >> wearing a t-shirt is not enough. wearing a t. shift that says black lives matter is not enough for the nba who stole the wnba's idea of putting black lives matter on the court. that is not enough. and so not only with our leagues but america as a whole do not get distracted by the crumbs people are throwing at you. t-shirts and things on the court are crumbs. taking down statues of racist slave owners, that's crumbs. >> cloud tells us she can't have a str

there and still set to serve a 50-year prison sentence and yesterday there he was walking out of jefferson countyn missouri and maya moore was there in a mask helping him get the conviction overturned. new evidence was found in the case. irons is free after serving 22 years behind bars and moore called the moment worshipful and sitting out again this season to continue fighting for social justice and in the wake of george floyd's death athletes are choosing to not return to games just yet but instead to focus on creating chaung in the country. >> really impressive. coy, thank you. >>> it is the top of the hour. i'm kate bolduan. for the first time the united states is crossing the 50,000 mark for new cases in a single day. spikes in several states, at least fooi states now setting their own new records. for new infecti

of breonna taylor, but in addition to that, what we also know is that they're in a county, in jefferson county louisville, where the majority of the african-american population lives, for 612,000 voters, there was only one polling site. we continue to see this fight. it changes in some ways, and some ways, they don't seem to change at all. what we are committed to doing, what gives me hope and what i have seen and been so inspired by is as we were passing by, as we were going down the 50-mile trek from selma to montgomery, i was seeing and witnessing people who had tears in their eyes and fisted raised and love in their heart. when the people rise up, things will change. that is what gives nee hope 100 years out. it's not a matter of what other folks will do. what matters is what we will do to make sure that democracy becomes real in america. >> three hours in line to vote. latosha brown, thank you so much for your time. we're so lucky to get to hear your perspective. you're going to be speaking there tonight at the ceremony. hopefully we'll also be able to talk with you later. for now, we'll

the jefferson county attorney said they'll review the lesser charges at a later date.ts after george floyd's death, some cities are taking the first step towards reparations for black americans. in rhode island, providence mayor signed an executive order wednesday to pursue, quote, truth telling and reparations process. so what exactly that will entail is yet to be determined. and in an historic unanimous vote on tuesday, the city council of asheville, north carolina, approved reparations for black residents and apologized for the city's role in slavery, discrimination, and denial of basic liberties. this resolution does not include cashpayments. joining us now is asheville city council member keith young. in a lot of times to get national action you got to have things start in a local process here. pragmatically, though, how would you like to see asheville make its reparations? >> i think from the beginning, first off let me state, this is the first step in an essential act of contrition. but moreover, the concept of the american dream we all have the equal opportunit

we can't forget kentucky where you had one polling site for 612,000 people in jefferson county.be one thing but the truth is this has been an ongoing issue around voter suppression. we're seeing it intensifying and it is so critical because we only have a hundred days left till the election. my head is right now i am really trying to process what is happening in our election, our democracy in america. i am also on the eve of the funeral and memorial of congressman john lewis and the death and ct vivian and civil rights, voting rights activists that actually fought to have the right to vote and here we are 55 years after and still fighting just to have free and fair access to the ballot. i think there is a number of things that any time in our history and i know people hear this over and over this is going to be the most critical election in this country's history. it is not just about selecting the president. i think it is also about sending a message of where we're going in the future and we have to save democracy. democracy, the farage ilt of democracy we're all experienced an

and when it comes to masks, jefferson county does have a mask mandate, but the secretary of state hase out and said that election officials cannot require voters to wear masks in order to cast a ballot, so while they are strongly encouraged, they are not required. and we have for the most part seen people here wearing masks, they said out of respect for others. there was an attempt to make bigger changes to the process in this state. and voting rights advocates have been in court battles with the state of alabama to allow for one curb side voting. and also to wave some requirements for absentee ballots here. the supreme court has blocked the attempt to make those changes, that court case is still being fought and we'll see what that means for november. as of today, no curb side voting. when it comes to absentee ballots in the state, in order to mail that in, you need two witnesses and you need a photocopy of your photo i.d., so those requirements are still in place. though the secretary of state said you can use covid as an excuse to receive an absentee ballot, still what all of that

they need it just as badly in bell county as it's needed in jefferson county. re is the other way to put it. so you really are lucky right now and your county has fewer cases. don't you want to keep it that way? don't you want to make sure we are protecting each other? to me, wearing one of these masks is such a small price to pay for being your brother and sister's keeper, for making sure you don't spread to this to somebody whose body can't take on it or protecting yourself and make sure you don't bring it home to your kids to protecting people's jobs. $10 billion in our economy and 5% of the economy of the united states. if you truly want to get kids back to school, which we keep hearing, wear a mask. it may be that simple. >> governor, it's interesting to me the leading republican in your state, a gentleman by the name of mitchell mcconnell, has quietly become one of the le leadilea leading advocates of wearing masks in washington, d.c. have you reached up to him and he is going to speak up on your behalf endorsing this policy? everywhere he goes now in his

families to evacuate the elephant butte fire as it's called is burning west of evergreen in jefferson county about 30 miles from denver. >>it has already burned about 50 acres. it is still 0% contained the firefighters initially ordered 250 homes to evacuate, but as the fire moved those numbers quickly changed to 1000 evacuations in the bay area, the crews fire that was burning near gilroy is now 100% contained cal fire says the fire scorched more than 5500 acres since breaking out on july the 5th the cause of the fire is still under investigation why least right now the weather not fire weather along the coast much cooler and moisture out there and have a plan about that laura yes certainly after the triple digit heat yesterday and of course see the fires burning around the bay area so far this season, but now. >>we're getting the fog that is moving is bouncing up all the way to the east bay hills now you see that the cloud deck a moving inside the bay. >>that will be there in the morning when you wake up early on in that slowly breaking a peeling back toward the coastline by the afternoon

jefferson county coroner disputes her boy friend's account saying briana likely died within a minuteng a raid at louisville home back in march. struggled to open emergency exit as the cabin filled with smoke during a plane crash last year. that's according to new ms-13 nb report. the plane coming down hard on a runway losing landing gear and part of a wing before crashing through a chain linked fence. eastern hart, his wife and then 15-month-old baby were not hurt. and quick-thinking, an off duty cop saving a little boy from a very close encounter with a shark. >> hey, buddy, hey,. >> hey, buddy. >> hey, there is a shark. >> there he is. >> while beach goers tried to get the boy's attention this cocoa beach cop jumped right in and pulled him to safety as he should. look at that shark. cocoa beach, no stranger to the men in gray but fortunately we had an officer pulling that kid away and that's what we like to see, jed? jedediah: i myself like to say in a shark-free zone as you know, griff, very well. let's talk to adam klotz. do you like to stay in shark-free zones or do you like to

. >> santa clara county district attorn jefferson and public you both for joining us. >>> this week, major leagll baseba began its shortened and delayed regular season, the oakland athletics will play their opening game against the los angeles angels at ring central colise tonight, new rules and protocols are making this a season unlike any other, for fans and players alike. stadiums ae oss the country closed to the public to help lower the spread of coronavirus. a's, made cardboard cutouts of loyal fans and some pets to bring familiar fas along for the highly unusual start of the season. with me now by skype is the host of the mark willard show, mark willard, thanks for being with us. >> reporter: thank you for having me. >> this is a season unlike any other, 60 games, mul changes, and expanded playoffs, work? ll do you expect this to >> er: they are off to a good start, i can say certainly there were a lot of people who didn't thwe would get to this day, where the season starts, it is an evolving challenge that will continue, they have crossea lot bridges, now everybody has got to

the superintendent of the 100,000 student jefferson county district until louisville, kentucky, says that he needs $10 million to order face masks alone, $25 billion is how much it's going to cost schools across this country to purchase medical supplies. and these are medical supplies that are going up in price because the supply is so low. we have a solution. the defense production act. but we also don't have enough tests. it now takes 7 to 10 to 14 days to get a test back. in kentucky it used to take just one -- in kentucky it used to take one day. that person who gets tested goes out and spreads it during that time. james davis from quest dying no particular said we would double capacity tomorrow but it is not the labs that are the bottleneck. it's our ability to get physical machines, our ability to feed those machines with chemical reagents. things, equipment that could be produced in the united states if the president took control of the manufacturing supply chain, not forever but for the extent of this crisis. and so the medical supply transparency and deliver act that senator

county coast. thanks to this week's jefferson award winner. sharon chen has her story of giving, sharon?da hernandez ariagas says what she does to serve the farm workers is work from the heart. so everyone will drive through and get tortils, and be d gg farm workers and her families. but she's at work giving them free food. >> i think about the hard work that our immigrant community is putting in everyday in this country. and that's what keeps me going. >> belinda started off serving latino families pro bono as a clinical social worker. when she discovered they needed more. >> although they're suffering from depression, anxiety, stress, what they really need was to be visible to have a space to celebrate who they were. >> so in 2011, she founded alas. it means helping latinos to dream big. the nonprofit offers cultural arts, educational, and social justice programs for latino families from half-moon bay to montera. employee cecilia says since covid-19, belinda has been serving three times as many families. 1,000 each week. >> she's hard working. she's always looking for resources to help

. >>> 8:34 fire occurs in santa cruz county what jefferson hotspot overnight fire on the campus, privatechool north of watsonville, and muscular save monterey bay academy, and less civil beach, started shortly after 10:00 last night firefighters managed to contain the fast-moving flames to that schools auditorium, there are no reports of injuries investigators will try to determine how it all got started. morgan hill police searching for a suspect in a shooting that left women injured, shooting happened friday night around 8:00 suitor 2-year-old man standing in front of a complex on the ceiling o avenue, when he was shot. please see thman, officials say bullet hit the men in the lake, taken to the hospital, currently no in good condition, police revealed surveillance picture, believed to be a burgundy 1990s toyota corolla anyone that has any information asked to call the morgan hill police department. happening today san francisco's annual a.i.d.s. walk gets underway in just about 90 minutes, about an hour and a half as you might have guessed, this year's event going online due to the pa

came into existence after the civil war, ben montgomery, born in blue county, virginia, purchased by a lawyer named davis who is jefferson davis's brother. the president of the confederacy. montgomery runs the plantation. the fifth or third most profitable plantation in a state with a lot of profitable plantations during the war. during the war, amended davis brothers money. he buys the plantation, $8 million in cash and then during reconstruction he loses possession of an unchallenged in the very large davis clan, moves the town north to a place called mount by you but this idea is fascinating to me, what a remarkable man. and people being the daviss, and he is respected, and always have a patent issue. this is exceptionalism. this is something we know whereby, i talk about that as a way -- davis was a utopian, considered himself a benevolent master, enlightened mississippian. arguably he was. and why it is so subjective, circumscribed i think i'm enlightened, to be part of something abysmal. always something whenever you look back at history and say i am more enlightened, i don't make those mistakes. we all make simila

jefferson is toppled. saints and emancipators are defamed. democrats in orange county want john wayne's name and statue removed from the county airport. they cite a 50-year-old article as evidence that wayne harbored racist views. his family denies the charge. just today a statue of christopher columbus was removed from the columbus city hall. maybe they can call their town "empty pedestal." president trump signed an executive order to protect some of the statues, and what does joe biden think? he says confederate statues belong in museums out of public view. well, listen. >> the elected officials where those statues have a responsibility. put them in museums. get them down. but don't expect if you have sitting in front of you after all these years, don't be surprised if someone pulls down the statue of jefferson davis. it is better that they do not. >> once you admit that the mob's displeasure with a given historical figure justifies they are destroying public works, how long before they are triggered over roosevelt, jefferson, or washington, racist and colonial affec

california rule state of jefferson leaders are involved in a lawsuit demanding fair representation in the state legislature in sacramento off's angeles has 11 senators and 11 counties in northern california have won that's not liberty that's not a balance of representation what is it about the policies that have been passed in sacramento that make you want to have your own state. where do you see the list is where does it start yeah the list is way too long if you're looking at taxation you're looking at i mean just the restrictions on basic things to take care of yourself and to defend yourself what about the policies that have come out of sacramento in the legislature that have to do with climate change the climate changes every season. i mean we live in a forest season part of the state it changes every season to season us we know it's going to be hot june yep going to rain of december they see no connection between climate change and wildfires pointing to regulations that prevent logging in as the problem that all comes from restrictions in sacramento i come from a lobbying family and my family log for generations and so you're out in the woods you take care of

jefferson award. do it online at kpix.com/hero. that's it for the news at 5:00. kpix 5 news at 6:00 begins now with ken bastida and elizabeth cook. >>> the contra costa county sheriff getting heat for releasing information about prisoners. why critics say that's helping ice deport people. >>> san mateo county tried to hold out and stay off the watch list. but now businesses are preparing to shut down again. >>> our top story on kpix 5. streaming on cbsn bay area. a muni driver speaking out after he says he was attacked after asking a passenger to put on a mask. the concern with the daily danger public transit workers face everyday. good evening i'm elizabeth cook. how a simple request escalated into racial slurs and an altercation. it was a physical altercation. the local transit workers union is asking for changes to keep them safe. public transit has become dangerous for drivers. we talked to one attacked after asking a maskless rider to get off. >> he said because i'm asian i probably have covid. i was upset. what does my race have anything to do with the disease or the virus. that driver made repeated announcements about mandatory mask wearing then eventually p