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martin savidge is there in lake charles there. where you stand is obviously strong winds and rain. our condition deteriora deteriorating. >> reporter: well, the wind gusts picking up and the rain just been non-stop. the real concern here had not been storm surge. the real concern had been the issue of wind. they're getting blasted by wind. amazingly they're actually on the easier side of this storm. the concern for this community as you pointed out, six weeks ago, they were hit by a category 4 hurricane. the damage had not been fixed in any way. streets are lined with huge piles of debrisdebris. rineha it is clear there will be additional devastation of destruction as the result of the previous debris as in through the community. they were letting people who decided to stay. you can only imagine they're thinking that was not such a good idea now. the power is out in a number of area. they only had the power restored just about last week. for so many people here it is not just heartbreaking. it is the agony of another storm on top of another one that they can't seem to catch a break

martin savidge, lake charles, louisiana. >> let's bring in meteorologist karen mcginnis now. karen, we saw a lot of bad news in that report, but the good news is, delta has weakened. >> it has weakened. the threat is not over. we're starting to see now what we had warned about as this storm was approaching the coast, that is the potential for tornadic activity. there is a tornado effect for iscambia county. this is a broad shield of rain. there is no center of circulation because it is at tropical storm strength. so it continues to elongate and it weakens. still the threat of rain, still the threat of storm surge. wind damage still the potential problem. already in excess of 660,000 people, primarily most of those in louisiana without power. but also into texas and into mississippi where they saw high winds. we had very heavy rainfall. very heavy rainfall. this is where that precipitation is located right now. you can see some of the heavier precipitation located right along interstate 20 between jackson and shreveport. extending over the lower mississippi valley. nashville p

cnn's martin savidge has more from lake charles. >> reporter: it turns out hurricane delta was not thestructive killer feared but still the governor of louisiana says it had a greater impact on the western part of louisiana than they expected. primarily on the issue of knocking out power. more people lost power during hurricane delta than they did during the more powerful hurricane laura six weeks ago. in fact, the governor says at the height of the outages during delta, 25% of all electricity customers in the state lost power. the good news is it's not expected to take weeks to restore. the other good news, so far no deaths have been attributed to the storm. although i'll underline so far. the irony in lake charles is this community was so devastated by hurricane laura at the end of august, it's hard to tell where the damage of one hurricane ends and the destruction of the next storm begins. but we do know there is additional damage here. you know that by the blue tarps. that's an indication of the families and homeowners starting to make the basic repairs. now blue tarps are ripped a

martin savidge, grateful for live reporting on a developing scene for us now. we are months into the pandemic. it is a giant public health test, including in the here and now. also a bit of a psychology test, a mental health challenge if you will. our next guest told this to "new york times." in the spring, it was fear, and sense of we are all in it together. things are different. fear has been replaced with fatigue. those words from the senior director of health care innovation at the american psychological association. grateful for your time today. i want you to help understand the challenge. back at the beginning, it was like wow, we're all in this together, we have a challenge. now the fatigue. how inevitable is it, and what does it do to human behavior in the sense you're still told to wear a mask and social distance, but you're tired of it. >> yeah. i think back in the spring it felt like an acute stressor. we had to e learn and work from home if lucky enough to do so. i don't think anybody at that time had a sense of how long this was going to take. that

martin mart martin savidge is joining us now in louisiana. how are things looking?: it is pretty bad. storms went to the east of here. we are not getting the worst of the winds. delta come ashore, things should be getting easy. it is an increment at a time. still getting hammered here. the winds have been extreme. not necessarily high force hurricane winds. you got to remember lake charles is in a situation like few other places in louisiana. it was hammered and devastating by hurricane laura six weeks ago and now it is being hit again by category 2 storm and in my cases the buildings were so weaken because of the hurricane laura. 95% of buildings and homes had been damaged in some way. their ability to stand up to a second blow is really in question. that's why they began mandatory evacuations on wednesday, telling people it is not safe to stay home in the middle of the storm. there is the debris. there is tons of debris. we were in the neighborhood earlier. it would be suicidal to be in there with all the floods and wires and woods and nails. all of that is flying

martin savidge is in lake charles, louisiana.e latest, martin. >> reporter: don, this is the second hurricane in six weeks, just about the same part of louisiana. conditions starting to ease. winds are dying down. it was a category 2 storm. the problem with lake charles getting hit with the fact that it got hit by a category 4 storm, laura, sick weeks ago. it devastated this town. many structures weaken and the 95% of the buildings suffered in some way and you have another powerful storm that comes in. the crews to go up. they'll have to wait until the winds here and conditions improved here. search and recovery will begin as soon as this storm moves away and this community will have to try to rebuild. all that debris around the street. those will have to start all over again. >> martin savidge will keep an eye on it throughout the hours of cnn. we'll be right back. people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ you are my sunshine, my only sunshine... ♪ rybelsus® works differentl

martin savidge reports on how that's putting all patients lives at risk not just those with covid-19.eporter: in salt lake city coronavirus cases are surging and hospitals are in danger of running out of intensive care unit beds. it's so for frustrating for dr. emily she breaks down. >> i try so hard not to. >> reporter: she's upset because we know how to avoid coronavirus. wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands. yet many people don't. >> there are front line providers in the emergency room, our nurses, doctors on all these covid units in the icu working tirelessly. it's like people are going out living their lives not realizing they're exhausting our health care system. there's so much that can be done by our leaders and they're just not doing it. >> reporter: covid-19 nearly killed stephanie's sister even though her sister never had it. what her sister was a serious heart attack. at the local hospital the family was told by the doctor she needed to get an intensive care unit to survive. >> he said we're doing everything we can to get a hospital that can take terry and they co

martin savidge is in lake charles, louisiana.s is the second hurricane in six weeks to strike just about the same part of louisiana. conditions starting to ease off or improve, here, in lake charles. winds dying down. it was a category 2 storm that came ashore, went quickly down to a category 1. the fact that it got hit by a category 4 storm, that was laura, just six weeks ago. it devastated this town. and so, many of the structures were already weakened. the mayor estimates about 95% of the buildings had suffered, in some way, including homes. and then, you got another powerful storm that comes in. they began evacuating on wednesday. they hope many people left. but here's the thing. the mayor's reporting they have received emergency calls, 911 calls, from people needing help in the midst of the storm. it was too dangerous for the crews to go out. they will have to wait until the winds here and the conditions improve and the winds subside. their practice at doing search and recovery will begin as soon as this storm moves away. an

martin savidge in salt lake city, utah, a state seeing a huge spike in cases.he story we hear there, of course, is exhaustion with the various measures needed to keep this in check. is that what you are seeing on the ground there? >> it is. when you talk to health officials here as to what they think is driving the outbreak in utah they point to two things. one, return to school. the other thing is they say there's a general fatigue on the part of many in the public who have just gotten tired of following the safety procedures we all know makes a big difference in all of this. you know, in utah here they are really, really struggling. this hospital here and many of the other hospitals in this state right now are frantically trying to find more icu rooms. they're trying to make the staff work longer and harder hours because they know, they know what is coming. as you point out, let's take a look at some of the national numbers here. 58,000 new cases of coronavirus reported on monday. monday is usually a down day for reporting cases. that number is quite shocking

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i'm alex savidge. heather will be along shortly here. we have another red flag warning that goes into effect tonight for much of the bay area. those strong gusty winds combined with dry conditions will make fire danger high and cause the potential for fires to spread quickly. this goes from 10:00 tonight to 5:00 friday night. at the same time, thousands of people are getting notice their electricity might be shutoff tonight because of the weather. about 7500 pg&e customers around the bay area are under a power outage watch right now. and this affects people in alameda, contra costa, napa, and sonoma counties, and those out ans could continue through friday. >> we get the weather clear, and our goal would be to turn all of those customers back on within 12 daylight hours. >> there were at least 30 instances of either damage or some sort of hazards last week to electric equipment because of the strong winds that we had. let's head over to mark, who is tracking the conditions. we are heading into some potentially dangerous fire weather. >>

martin savidge joins us, now, from lake charles, louisiana, with the very latest.an, it looks wet there. how are things looking? >> it's pretty bad. the good news is, of course, the storm went to the east of here which, as you know, john, means we're not getting the worst of the winds. and in theory, now that delta's come ashore, things should get easy. but it's always in increments, over time. still, getting hammered here. heavy rain that's been continuing, well, loalmost sinc noon today but the winds. the winds have been extreme. not necessarily high-force hurricane winds but you got to remember. lake charles was hammered, devastated, by hurricane laura, six weeks ago. and now, it's being hit, again, by a category 2 storm. and in many cases, the buildings were so weakened because of that hurricane laura, 95% of the buildings and homes, the mayor says, have been damaged in some way. their ability to stand up to a second blow like this is really in question. that's why they began mandatory evacuations wednesday. telling people it would just simply not be safe to st

i'm alex savidge. despite i'm heather holmes. that suspect has been barricaded inside that east oakland business now for several hours, i want to show you now where all of this is taking place. he is hold up in a shoe store at a shopping plaza there on high street near bancroft avenue and bond street. audrey senior is live with and update, andre, a very tense situation here. >> reporter: very tense indeed, within the last 20 minutes oakland police said they heard multiple gunshots coming from inside the business where all of this is happening right now. and, negotiators are working to actively get the suspect surrender peacefully. >> reporter: likely have been a normal thursday for those who live and work in the area of high street and bancroft avenue in oakland. instead, it descended into a chaotic scene that involved a crush of police officers, s.w.a.t., and hostage negotiators, working to bring up his lens to a situation with a murder suspects holding someone at gunpoint. >> we can share with you we know this individual is con

it too late to avoid a deadly 2nd wave will see that in the coming weeks around r t correspondent savidge thank you for keeping us up to date. and time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return we bring you up to speed on the grilling of big tech leaders from capitol hill and what sort of regulation could lie ahead for the sector as we go to break here the numbers at the close. this is a story of women and women with troubled histories and complex cold cases you know some of us. out there. where not. the person that. the cheesiness of the day are considered the most dangerous of criminals she's in a still. well below 23 hours of the day tell me that it's not enough and it. will do for women on death row. and welcome back c.e.o.'s of the largest tech companies in the world were grilled by congress when they had what was supposed to be a hearing about section 230 protections and instead spun into arguments over antitrust and tech censorship mr dorsey how does a quality buy chinese communists that the u.s. military is to blame for coded remain up for 2 months without a fact

too late to avoid a deadly 2nd way we'll see that in the coming weeks around r t correspondent side savidge thank you for keeping us up to date. and time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return we bring you up to speed on the grilling of big tech leaders from capitol hill and what sort of regulation could lie ahead for the sector as we go to break here the numbers of the close. 100 makes no sense you know borders just lying to nationalities. as a. sitting. judge of. commentary this is the sentence. we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created just a response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in need together. even after russia gate was debunked as a hoax this conspiracy theory lives on in fact it appears to become part parcel of our political discourse if you will post someone or an idea all you have to do is play in russia no facts necessary slurs in fact those claims now suffice. an entire village in alaska. if an

martin savidge is in lake charles, louisiana following this.s is an area still recovering after it was slammed by hurricane laura in late august. tell us what's going on, martin. >> reporter: that's right, brianna. recovery might be too much credit really. they're barely getting out from under laura. that's really the problem. last storm, the big concern was the water. this time it is the wind, any kind of wind. tropical storm force, and they don't want to think about hurricane force winds because so much damage has been done. debris that's around me becomes the potential weapon in the next storm coming ashore. let me show you what you've got. this stuff, aluminum siding which gets picked up in easy wind, and this is almost razor sharp, has nails embedded in it. it is an example of some stuff that's out here. look down the street. the whole street is lined with piles of debris. the city moved about a million and a half yards of it to landfill, but there's more of that. with the winds kicking up, this can all become missiles. it is really bad. i

. >> and i'm alex savidge. good afternoon. joe biden got a briefing on the covid-19 pandemic today in his hometown of wilmington, delaware. he heard from a former u.s. surgeon general and other health officials about the third wave of the virus. biden said it's clear that the pandemic has been worsened by this administration's failure to address the surge. >> i'm not running on a false promise of being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch, but what i can promise you is this, we will start on day one doing the right things. we'll let science drive our decisions. we will deal honestly with the american people. >> democratic vice presidential nominee kamala harris campaigned in arizona today, where polling averages show joe biden with a narrow 2% lead. senator harris criticized president trump for putting the health of his supporters at risk by packing them together in those large rallies. now president trump is also in arizona today, he is holding two separate rallies. in bull head city, he accused democrats of overrea

. >> and i'm alex savidge. let's get you back to those live pictures from zuckerberg general hospital in san francisco. a procession is about to get underway to carry the body of firefighter paramedic jason cortez from the hospital to the medical examiner's office. his body just put into a van at that scene, and we saw people standing and salutes here as his body was brought out. we'll continue to follow this procession as it makes its way through the streets of san francisco. we want to get more now, though, on that accident that happened today during a training exercise. let's bring in henry lee with more on what we know. >> as you said, this is an outpouring of respect honoring a firefighter who gave his life protecting the city that he loved. >> reporter: a somer gathering at san francisco general hospital. firefighter jason cortez died during a training incident a few blocks away. >> we can confirm this was at training incident. >> reporter: it happened at 10:00 in the morning in the initialen district. he

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. >> and i'm alex savidge. there fauci once again urged everyone to wear a mask and said we could soon have a safe vaccine. ann has the latest on today's event. >> yeah, dr. fauci said that safe, effective vaccine is on the horizon, but he believes we're going to have to deal with a long, hard winter first. dr. anthony fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert is worried about covid hot spot the cold weather that's coming pickup. he spoke today on a panel for the silicon valley leadership group. >> so i'm concerned unless we do something to turn this around, we're going to have a very difficult, very painful winter. >> reporter: he said universal wears of masks and continued social distancing will help, and so will choosing outdoor activities over indoor when possible. >> no one has an appetite to shut the country down again. >> reporter: he said he is cautiously optimistic about a vaccine. there are six possibility, five of which are in advanced trials. >> we should be able to get an inkling of whether

welcome, everyone, to the 4, i'm alex savidge. >> and hello again, everyone, i'm heather holmes. those 16 firefighters were assigned to the large fire there in the north bay, but were not on the fire lines at the time they became ill. wet get more now from henry lee. henry, what do we know about what happened? >> not too much at this point, heather, other than the fact they're part of a strike team, several fire engines group together when all of them became ill. they were not fighting the fire at the time. >> reporter: it was an unusual sight. first responders converges on the fairgrounds for an emergency involving 16 of their own. >> first time i've heard of a large exposure like this. >> reporter: the first signs of something wrong came mid- morning. >> we had the report of 16 firefighters that were possibly exposed to carbon monoxide. >> reporter: the firefighters were assigned to the glass fire, but weren't actively fighting flames when they fell ill. >> at an offsite location from the base camp unrelated to the fire area. >> reporter: they were taken to the fair grounds and

cnn correspondent martin savidge is in salt lake city. what are you seeing there?e problem here is continuing to grow at a significant rate and there's something else that medical officials are beginning to see and it's how this coronavirus is potentially actually kill someone without actually infecting them. and it's creating a dangerous competition for medical resources. here is what we found. in salt lake city coronavirus cases are surging and hospitals are in danger of running out of tentative care unit beds. >> i was trying so hard not to. >> reporter: she's upset because we know how to avoid coronavirus, wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands, yet many people don't. >> there are front line providers in the emergency room, our nrss, doctors on all these covid units in the icu working tirelessly. it's kind of like people just are going out and living their lives not realizing that they are exhausting our health care system. there's so much that can be done by our leaders and they are not doing it. >> reporter: covid-19 nearly killed stephanie deer's sist

cnn's martin savidge following the latest from lake charles, louisiana.s an abundance of caution here. how bad do they expect it to be? can they really know, at this point? >> well, you know, right now, it's a cat 3, maybe a cat 2. last time i was here, six weeks ago for laura, the real concern was the water. this time, the wind. it's easy to see why, just with everything around me. let me show you this, this debris, tons of it. this is just aluminum siding, but razor sharp, gets picked up and goes through air and has nails to boot. that would slice a person open. look down the street, you can see there is tons and tons and tons of debris in this town. the city has hauled away about 1.5 million cubic tons, but haven't even scratched the surface here. that all becomes airborne if the winds become tropical or hurricane force and becomes a battering ram. it's one of the reasons they pushed so hard for the mandatory evacuation. i want to show you the drone footage we've got. it's another symptom of what the problem is in this particular town. blue tarps. they

cnn's martin savidge joins us from salt lake city. what's the situation on the ground there, martin? >> reporter: utah continues to see new coronavirus cases at unpreu unprecedented levels. and utah is not alone. coronavirus cases spiking across the country. more than 58,000 new coronavirus cases reported on monday. 31 states seeing a rise in new cases over the past week. >> in many of our locations, up to half of these people have no known source of exposure. that's how much virus is floating around in our communities right now. >> reporter: the midwest still struggle with the surge. wisconsin reporting around 8,000 cases over the last three days. 14 states have seen peak hospitalizations over the last week. several of those states in the midwest. and in the northeast, new jersey's governor encouraging residents not to travel after recent increases. >> new jersey's come a long way, but our numbers are up. this is not just a northeast state, it's not just a blue state thing, it's an american challenge at the moment and it's real. >> r

>>> welcome, everyone, to the 4, i'm alex savidge. >> and i'm cristina rendon. breaking news out of solano county, where we are foe following a three alarm grass fire that has shut down all lanes of highway 12 actually sally lane and walters road. drivers are being told to avoid the area. this fire is burning right outside the south gate of the travis air force base, and fire crews are assisting the suisun city fire department on scene. >> that is a thick black smoke coming from this fire and from this area. we're told the strong wind this afternoon are pushing a lot of that smoke and contra costa. for more on the weather conditions, let's get over to rosemary orozco. what kind of gusts are we seeing there in that fire zone? >> yeah, the winds are still blowing in that area. 25 to 35 miles per hour or so, with gusts perhaps reaching even a little stronger than that, and that northeast wind is creating very dry conditions. we're talking about single digit relative humidity. giving you a look at storm tracker two, where we have, over the course of the last 24 hour

welcome everyone, i'm alex savidge. >> i'm christina rundown, in today for heather holmes. governor newsom toured the damage at an elementary school, he says wildfires and the cause sights for many people who live in napa and sonoma counties. >> people are exhausted, concerned and anxious about their fate and their future, not just their safety. so, clearly we have our work cut out for us to deal with, not only suppression, but prevention strategies here, with the immediate, as well as strategies to address the long- term. >> the governor visit comes one day after he declared a state of emergency for napa and sonoma counties. the glass fire has grown 8300 acres since yesterday, it has now burned more than 56,000 acres. it is now 5% contained, but a red flag warning does remain in effect, strong wind could complicate the firefight is the concern for firefighters. tom baker joining us live from the fire zone in napa county, where the impact has been really strong on the small community. the town? >> except for the media and first responders, this is calistoga, a virtual goes

now, let's go to alex savidge with a look at what they are working on for the news at 7:00, coming up on ktvu. >>> heather, thank you. a bizarre theft of a toy boat, the beloved cafcin seven cisco we will tell you how someone managed to walk out with dozens of vintage toys during business hours. also, cleared to leave the state, why the former minneapolis police officer charged in the death of george floyd is now being allowed to leave minnesota. we will have those stories and much more coming up tonight live at 7:00 over on >> alex thank you. >>> first after the break, advancing the conversation on gender and racial equality and justice on the pitch. we will tell you about the justice match hosted by the oakland roots soccer team. we are taking alive look outside this friday evening. >>> over the golden gate bridge this evening. ktvu news will be right back. when was the last time your property tax bill went down? what? never. are you kidding me? for years, the residential burden has gone up. while the corporate burden has gone down. prop 15 reverses that. it closes corporate loophol

. >>> right now we go to alex savidge with a look at some of the stories we are working on for the 7:plus. >> thank you. >>> tonight in covid-19 conversations a new equity requirement for california counties, we will tell you about the metric they must hit in order to further reopen in the middle of the pandemic. also, 20,000 workers infected, what amazon revealed today about covid-19 cases during the course of the pandemic, we will have those stories and more coming up tonight, live at 7:00 on ktvu plus point >>> first after the break, playgrounds reopen in one bay area county to better align with newly revised estate guidelines , but there are suggested time limits and other rules. >>> taking alive look outside on this thursday night, look at that, you can't even see the city it's so hazy. ktvu f0x2 news will be right back. taking california for a ride. companies like uber, lyft, doordash. breaking state employment laws for years. now these multi-billion-dollar companies wrote deceptive prop 22 to buy themselves a new law. to deny drivers the rights they deserve. no sick leave. no w