joining us is mayor schaff. good to have you. >> be to see you. >> i'm glad you're coming as you're getting good news. almeida county is moving into the orange here and seems like you're going to be reopening a lot more activities starting friday. what's happening? talk to us about that. >> that's right. a lot of things we miss doing we are going to start to get to do but usually at about 25% capacity. things like weddings and tune ralgs, going to chump, going to our favorite gym, indoor shorngs indoor activities like climbing walls, bowling alleys. these are going to start to be allowed to be open at 25% capacity and all that because you have done such a great job sacrificing your personal comfort, keeping social distance, wearing the masks, and we've got to keep doing that because if those test results don't stay where they are, if they don't get better, almeida coup could roll these privileges back. so let's keep it going, oakland. >> yeah. so how is testing going since you mentioned that? >> well, you know,

. >> reporter: mayor libby schaff welcomed east oakland residents to a community circle as other shop at the new outdoor market on foothill boulevard, it was created during the pandemic to help showcase black and brown businesses. >> i've been in oakland all of my life, and i have three children, they are young adults, and of course, every time they leave the house, you know, i am concerned. violence can happen anywhere, it can happen right now. >> reporter: east oakland is at the heart of the city's increase in homicides amid the pandemic. the recent outbreak of violence claimed at the 75th victim during the first weekend of october. matching the total number of homicides in all of 2019. just last week, there were two triple shootings within nine blocks of east oakland. despite i am grieving. grieving, that we have had so many more homicides this year. all other types of crime have gone down, accept homicides. this pandemic is upping the stress, the anger, the desperation. >> reporter: the mayor says that pandemic has caused critical gun violence reduction work and outreach efforts t

traffic is crawling from the maze will check >>well in our local first story oakland mayor libby schaff unveiled new art and planter boxes is part of the latest oakland slow streets project. this is the latest installation by community artist jonathan brumfield and rich right there along plymouth street in oakland which has been shut down to traffic since the pandemic began and it was done as a way to create a space for people to walk and play safely while maintaining physical distance. >>this one of silver linings of covid red covid has made a slow down covid has made us try some things that we won't try under normal time. >>and this is an example of how we tried and yes so the oakland slow streets program started back in april and some community members say it's been so successful they actually wanted to continue even after shelter-in-place orders are lifted. >>it's a 41 and still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, how las vegas plans to bring back tourists it seems to have backfired instead it's bringing in crime. proposition 16 takes on discrimination. some women make as little as 42

, so yes, it's still crawling around 80 west from >>and our local first story oakland mayor libby schaffd new art and planter boxes as part of the latest oakland slow streets project. this is the latest installation by community artist jonathan brumfield it's along plymouth street in oakland, plymouth street has been closed to traffic to create space for people to walk and play safely while maintaining physical distance and by all accounts people are enjoying it. >>this one of silver linings of covid red covid has made a slow down covid has made us try some things that we won't try under normal time and this is an example of how we tried an experiment for covid and the oakland slow streets program started back in april some community members in fact wanted to continue even after the shelter-in-place orders are lifted. >>and coming up next high fire danger means that firefighters are ready to tackle anything that breaks out and you need to be >>welcome back 7.46 on this tuesday morning. it's been a beautiful morning so far and with temperatures pretty comfortable along with it i think it

. >> reporter: according to mayor schaff in the researchers, test findings revealed the need for more testing, and financial relief, and housing resources especially for those most at risk. >>> a new study aims to track the spread of covid-19 right here in the bay area, a study that is being put together by doctors at stanford medicine as well as a chance -- joining us to expand a little bit more about this is study director, patrick, thank you so much for joining us. we know the studies getting ready to launch next week so explain what exactly this is been is called the catch study, and what is the main goal here? >> so the study from stanford school of medicine, our goal is to really measure the prevalence of covid-19 in the bay area. so really covering the entire population, including a lot of these populations that are underserved by using a different type of technology, a home test kit where you actually collect your own sample and then you basically send it in. we actually have careers that will drop these off at your home and pick up the sample that you collect with a safe nava

the complete traffi >>and we are back time now 5.13 in our local first story oakland mayor libby schaff unveiled new ark and planter boxes as part of the latest oakland show a slow streets project. this is the latest installation by community artist jonathan up from felt. well you'll see it along clinton street in oakland. that street is closed to traffic right now to create space for people to walk and play safely while maintaining physical distance. >>this one of silver linings of covid red covid has made a slow down covid has made us try some things that we won't try under normal time. >>and this is the can slow streets program started back in april some community members are wanting it to continue even after the shelter-in-place orders are lifted because they're enjoying it so much. >>all right, let's take a look at the weather today. i think we're waiting for the heat to come on, i don't know if that's going to happen today another couple that i yeah, you know today will be a warm one, but i would say the heat not really kicked up to full gear just yet today we're going to be savin

portland police officers as federal agents despite objections from city officials there camaro libby schaff explain why her city joined that lawsuit. >>troops without any coordination and over the >>the mayor explained that decision while she was at an event where she was handing out laptops to students in need in oakland oakland has so far handed out 12,500 that cops purchased through donations and that is the halfway mark of the city's goal, the hand out 25,000 laptops and all. >>kron 4 is your local election headquarters and tonight, president trump and joe biden held competing townhome the candidates were grilled on coronavirus the supreme court health care and the economy dean reynolds has the story. the second debate was scrubbed after the president he'll miss and his refusal to participate in a virtual debate with he and mister biden. >>in separate remote locations. so tonight. he was on nbc at the same time his opponent was on abc i just go all the time they did you take us the doctor they give you a perfect answer, yeah they take a test and i leave and i go about so i just did you

>>well in our local first story oakland mayor libby schaff unveiled new art and planter boxes as partlatest oakland slow streets project. this is the latest installation by community artist jonathan brumfield it's right along plymouth street in oakland, plymouth street has been closed to traffic of course to create space for people actually walking play safely while maintaining physical distance and folks say they're really happy about it. >>this one of silver linings of covid red covid has made a slow down covid has made us try some things that we won't try under normal time and this is an example of how we tried an experiment for yeah the oakland slow streets program started back in april some community members actually wanted to continue even after the shelter-in-place orders are lifted. >>17 county election officials are beginning the process mail in ballots. there's the machine right behind me an exclusive on kron 4 news they promise to show the process li frustrated that your clothes get damaged when you wash them, and they just don't look the same? well now there's a solution,

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