in lafayette, leslie brinkley, abc 7 news. >> thank you for that update. you can track the air quality and winds any time with our real-time weather tracker. this tool is live on our abc 7 bay area connected tv app. download the tv app wherever you stream. >> nuts move on to the pandemic. a it covid-19 testing site is set to open in san francisco. this is located at seventh and brennan streets in the soma neighborhood. abc 7 news reporter lian menendez shows us the site will be able to administer 500 test today -- a day seven days a week. reporter: by tomorrow, this lot at seventh and brennan streets will start testing hundreds of people a day for covid. the site will be open seven days a week from 9:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. priority will be given to so-called disaster service workers who have been exposed to the virus. and to community members involved in potential outbreaks. >> when we see an uptick in cases, tcases, t susceptible communities like shelters and skilled nursing facilities. and with school opening monday, we wanted to make sure we had capaci

leslie brinkley is live in oakland tonight. leslie: the new chief of police in oakland genuinely loves the city of oakland. he was born and raised there and has worked in the oakland police department for several decades, but right now he told me he is worried. >> what keeps me awake at night is the continuous gunfire. leslie: chief armstrong is awash in problems -- homeless, homicides, assaults on politicians, journalists, and the elderly. >> the challenges with the high level of crime with 78 homicides, the number of calls for service we are receiving on a daily basis. we are unable to meet the demand. there are two different narratives. there is a narrative with some politicians that community does not want to see police officers. when you go into community, talk with those being impacted by crime, they want police officers, they just want good police officers. we have asked them to engage with community in a different way to help build relationships with community. leslie: you have officers quitting and leaving. >> it is har

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leslie: from the east bay, i am leslie brinkley, abc 7 news.are requiring proof of vaccination to enter, and the cdc vaccination cards are the most universally accepted truth, but it turns out tens of thousands of people who got their vaccines and san mateo county did not get one of those official cards. abc 7 bay area news app -- 7 on your side's michael finney has more. jane: xerox paper. michael jane bertelsen was one of the first to get a covid vaccine here at the san mateo event center. jane: it was amazingly quick. i thought it was easy, no big deal. michael: until, for much later, she and a friend brooke a cruise to barbados. both the carrier and the local government required proof to get on board. jane: when i got my two vaccines, i was only given a photo copy of my cdc card. michael: turned out, san mateo county did not provide cdc card to the vaccination site, where about 100,000 people receive their shots. instead, they gave out photocopies on sheets of paper, one for each dose. jane contacted the county health apartment with this qu

leslie brinkley spoke with the family today. >> we lost a son, but we gained a huge family. close to so many of these people. >> and they provided just unbelievable support for us. >> reporter: the family thanked volunteers and search and rescue personnel who swarmed the regional park for over three weeks, searching for philip kreycik, the 36-year-old who vanished july 10 while out for a run during a heat wave. >> it is so easy for something to go wrong. >> the moment he went out was not particularly dangerous. it did get warm in the afternoon. but one instance led him down the wrong path. >> reporter: what appears to be kreycik's body, clothed in his running gear, was found in dense brush on a ridge top on august 3. are you hopeful the biometric watch he was wearing might give you more information on what happened to him that day? >> i think so. i think that will give us more insight. i want to know, but i am also scared to know. >> it seems like that might be useful for providing help for people in the future, who might be going out on a trail hike. >> and of course, my fo

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley has a sobering look at the potential danger of new variants. >> vaccines are remarkable in terms of how well they work, but on the pessimistic side i think this is going to become what is known as an endemic pathogen. it is going to be around forever. we are not going to wipe it out. >> reporter: he is an evolutionary biologist at uc davis and an expert in dna sequencing to study the evolution of microbes. what does he think of the evolution of covid at this point? >> right now i am sufficiently worried about what is happening now, that i am not spending a lot of time thinking about how it could get worse, because it is quite bad right now with the number of unvaccinated people. again, hundreds of millions of people around the globe that are infected. each one of them provides a breeding ground for new variants to show up. >> reporter: eventually herd immunity will kick in, but for now scientists are monitoring not only delta, but lambda and beyond. >> there are going to be other letters that will show up and some of them will be, you know, minor. maybe ev

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley has a sobering look at the potential danger of these new variants. >> these vaccines are remarkable in terms of how well they work. but you know, on the pessimistic side, i think this is going to become what is known as an endemic pathogen. it is going to be around forever. we are not going to wipe it out. >> reporter: he has an evolutionary biologist and an expert in dna sequencing to study the evolution of microbes. what does he think of the evolution of covid at this point? >> right now i am sufficiently worried about what is happening now. i'm not even spending a lot of time thinking about how i can get worse, because it is really quite bad right now with the number of unvaccinated people we have. again, hundreds of millions of people around the globe that are infected. each one of them provides a breeding ground for new 1028 to show up. >> reporter: eventually, herd immunity could kick in, but for now scientists are monitoring not only delta, but lambda, and beyond. >> there will be other letters that show up and some of them will be minor. mayb

leslie brinkley is live on the heels of the east bay where the view of mount diablo was obscured by smoke today. the a qi is about 135 where i am. if you go further east out towards diablo, it gradually gets a little worse. the good news is that this afternoon, pg&e announced they were beginning to turn on power for folks who lost power yesterday. instead of cutting power to 51,000 customers as was planned, pg&e ended up pulling the plug for shutdowns on only 48 thousand customers in northern california. as pg&e starts turning the power back on, customers in the lonoke, napa, and sonoma counties may have to be patient. here in the bay, counties are impacted. that could be potentially early tomorrow afternoon. there's always the possibility that could either move up or potentially move back, but that is where we expect the timeframe to be. turning the morning sun orange and graying out the horizon. that's why the they air quality management district has put out an advisory this week. >> at times it will settle down to ground level, but we are not expecting air quality to be worse than mode

. >> leslie brinkley spoke with the family today. >> we lost a son, but we gained a huge family.any of these people. >> and they provided just unbelievable support for us. >> reporter: the family thanked volunteers and search and rescue personnel who swarmed pleasanton regional park for three weeks, searching for philip kreycik, who vanished july 10 while out for a run during a heat wave. >> it is so easy for something to go wrong. >> the moment he went out, it was not particularly dangerous. it did get warm in the afternoon. but one instance led him down the wrong path. >> reporter: what appears to be kreycik's body was found in dense brush on a ridge top on august 3. are you hopeful that the biometric watch he was wearing might give you more information on what happened to him that day?

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let's get to leslie brinkley with who could be affected. reporter: dangerous winds coming.ith a preemptive power shut off the customers, starting 6:00 for the next couple of hours. those customers have been notified yesterday and today that the power is actually being cut off. of those 51,000 in northern

i am leslie brinkley in the east bay with a sobering look at the future of variants. >>> the paperworkhese documents could be doctored. >> she really got vaccinated, but she did not get a real cdc card. 7 on your side help to make sure she could take her vacation. >>> building a better bay area. moving forward. finding solutions. this is abc7 news. >>> the worst quality in the bay area right now is in this live picture. it is in the east bay. you can see the haze in the sky above walnut creek. >> the north bay is not doing much better. this is a view from atop mount tam. >> for the smoky skies, blame the wildfires hundreds of miles away. they are not threatening our homes, they are threatening our health. thank you for joining us, i am ama daetz. >> and i am larry beil. you are watching abc7 news at 6:00 live on abc7, hulu live, and wherever you stream. >> let's get to meteorologist spencer christian with a look at the air quality. >> areas north and east have poured to hazardous air quality, represented by the darker colors. orange, red, purple. in the bay area, especially the coast a

. >> i'm leslie brinkley, abc 7 news.: sheriff's deputy unit is pushing back against a possible mandate. they said they will quit in large numbers if it requires a vaccination. it anticipates many will retire early and seek other employment. they are being called on to let them test weekly rather than have a vaccine. as the delta 19 -- as the delta variant spreads, some are requiring vaccination cards. tens of thousands of people who got vaccines in san mateo county did not get an official card. michael finney has the story. >> eight and a half by 11, it is xerox paper. michael: she was where the first to get one in the san mateo center. >> i thought everything is fine for this is easy. michael: until four months later she booked a cruise and the carrier and government required proof of vaccination to get on board. >> when i got my two vaccines, i was only given a photocopy of the cdc card. michael: san mateo county did not provide cards at the vaccination. instead they gave out photocopies on dose. she contacted the coun

leslie brinkley, abc seven.spected of assaulting a young girl inside her home is in custody. police a 24-year-old dupree hornsby attacked a girl in her home on denson drive friday morning before being chased away. he was arrested. detective say hornsby had no prior association with the victim. he is charged with eight counts of felony sex crimes against a child under 10. larry: progress for crews battling the dixie fire burning mostly butte county. containment grew from 21% to 25%. this is the second largest in state history, burning nearly 488,000 acres and destroying 600 structures. thousands remain out of their homes. the fire started july 13. it's because remains under nursing asian. you can see live update -- it's because remains under investigation. it is getting warmer this week, which is troublesome for all of those firefighters. kristen: let's see if we can keep the wind down. spencer: easy, not gusty, but it is getting warmer. let's look at our warm-up from yesterday to right now. you can see most of t

let's get to leslie brinkley with who could be affected. reporter: dangerous winds coming. pg&e told me they are moving forward with a preemptive power shut off the customers, starting 6:00 for the next couple of hours. those customers have been notified yesterday and today that the power is actually being cut off. of those 51,000 in northern california, 10,000 customers losing power or right here in the bay area. perilous dry brush and drought conditions will be amplified by low humidity and high wind, with the red flag warning for the east bay hills in the north bay. pg&e warned that public safety power shut also possible. >> the majority of the customers are in the sierra foothills and other counties. >> over 50,000 customers are facing power outages. things look tame in the morning with a few notified. by afternoon, the numbers were nearly 7000 and napa. 1800 customers in sonoma, in 1000 in solano. 18 added in alameda, 334 in contra costa county later in the day. pg&e says they have been able to narrow the scope of the outages. >> we are not seeing the very large outage

leslie brinkley digs into this deal. >> cal memorial stadium is a built on a font -- on a fault linee californians who sacrificed their lives in world war i. it was seismically renovated 10 years ago and now, a name change. now, to set the record straight, it is the field that will be called ftx field. as for the stadium itself, it will continue to be called california memorial stadium. cryptocurrency giant ftx paying $17.5 million in cryptocurrency for the naming rights. >> we will use it to fund student athletes and our mission. ftx is one of the leading cryptocurrency companies in the world. >> now, the ftx logo will be displayed on the field and on press banners and social media. the first cryptocurrency partnership in college football. >> we are proud of that, that we are the first. but, as you said, they also have partnerships with the miami heat, major league baseball. >> here on home turf, loyal cal fans set it was ok by them. >> as long as they are not renaming the entire stadium, i am good with that. >> at the old -- at the ftx thex field, cal memorial stadium. >> this is f

live in pleasanton, i am leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> certainly our thoughts and prayers go out tothe family. thank you. >>> we turn now to the drought that is dire in the state and received federal attention today. take a look, you can see how bad the drought is. over the past two weeks, conditions have gotten worse. nearly half the state is now in the dark red color, which represents exceptional drought. today the u.s. secretary of agriculture visited the north bay to see the situation firsthand. wayne freedman was there. >> reporter: the simple pleasure of visiting a winery. it is one version of paradise. >> i underestimated the pent-up demand. >> reporter: they make 65,000 cases per year. in this, a year like no otheno o >> following the wildfires and covid on top of that, it is a one-two punch and now throwing in drought. >> reporter: davies knows that and so does the entire community. today they wanted this man to see and understand their plight. >> the level of difficulty that an owner of a vineyard faces. >> reporter: tom vilsack came to the napa valley this afternoon for b

. >> reporter: in pleasanton, leslie brinkley, abc7 news. >> so tough for cke un in the parking garage at jack london square. that garage is located under the plank restaurant. the alameda county bomb squad is on the way. businesses and the hotel have been evacuated. trained traffic on the embarcadero has been stopped. we will keep you posted to the afternoon. >>> the state issued two new orders today. one requires workers in healthcare settings to be fully vaccinated or receive their second dose by september 30. the other states visitors to hospitals, care facilities, and nursing homes must be fully vaccinated or present a negative test taken 72 hours before their visit. meantime, sources tell abc news the fda should have a vaccine booster plan ready in the next few weeks for the immunosuppressed population. this comes as the seven day average for new daily cases in the u.s. increased 43% from last week. >>> abc7 news has confmeat sac started giving supplemental shots to people who got the single-dose johnson & johnson vaccine. sky 7 was over a hospital staging didn't where people gat