. >>> i'm wayne freedman in the predidio where there's an observance for the start of the korean war a small one. basically >>> building a better bay area. one of the focal points is education. while teachers are offered the summer, a san francisco middle school principal is using that time too challenge how many of them treat their increasingly diverse students from a white perspective. david louie shows us how he's trying to change that. >> principal joseph trust started last summer to coach teachers on what he considers white supremacy culture in the classroom. >> it shows up in the interactions and relations. >> with cries for change, 1,600 educators signed up to attend his two-day virtual workshop scheduled for this weekend from across the u.s. and nine other countries. this is video from an in-person session last summer. the workshop is designed to shake things up. >> we're still tip toeing white fragility and the process. it's incredibly uncomfortable for white folks because that's where the growth permanent needs to happen. >> here's one example truss gives as an example of w

. >>> i'm wayne freedman in oakland on broadway. if you look at this, you see murals. but it's also history. now the effort to preserve it. that's coming up. >>> also here, europe may block travel from the united states because of the coronavirus when it could take effect, and what it means for travelers. >>> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel. a stretch of hot summer days are ahead. that's coming right up. >>> first a look at what's coming up on jimmy kimmel after "abc7 news" at 11:00. jimmy? >> thanks, dan and ama. ask your doctor if catch thing is right for you. ♪ happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday dear -- >> shak deliver packages for amazon. i drive my van five days a week. i'm the only one touching the van, but i'm still gonna take the time to wipe everything down. i recently took a break cause my girlfriend

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and as wayne freedman shows us, sales are booming because of social distancing. >> has a stove, propane. >> there is nothing better than knowing he had a good excuse for buying a new toy. >> a tv. >> reporter: frederick nema, still in the getting to know you phase with a new rv he plans to use both for work and vacation can. he's had enough uncertainties from covid-19. >> you can book in advance a hotel and at the last minute there is a surge in the pandemic an boom, they cancel, so you don't want to do that. >> reporter: sales are peaking for the rv business. >> the train is off the rails. >> reporter: craig smith does not spend much time sitting down these days as new customers keep coming in. >> big spacious living room, a full size refrigerator like at home, it is not a little rv fridge rl anymore. >> reporter: in a typical week, they might sell six rvs. last week, 22 of them. >> that is a record week for us. that is normally what we sell in a month. >> reporter: in general, dealers tell us that sales have doubled, a frenzy fed by a short average units because factories had closed.

wayne freedman has more. >> what's up?days the answer would be rockfish an s the last fishermen have try to keep it going. >> since october of 2017. the port of san francisco has allowed giuseppe to sell fish directly from his boat. now the port has ordered a suspension to that operation for 90 days beginning monday after concerns from a restaurant. >> we're losing money every single day trying to try to keep the doors open. >> the pioneer leases the slip, the restaurant has the right to the parking lot. >> this goes back a couple weeks ago when we couldn't bring people in to pick up the food. >> the restaurant owner says three years ago, he supported the sales operation, now he says these pictures of a crowded it too popular. they want to put outside dining here. >> scoma's has a lease to this area and they need to be able to take care of their business. >> when you have someone who's using your property for free. and they keep obstructing your business. i really don't care to have him around. >> if you can't do it here.

in healdsburg, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> gap is being sued for refusing to pay rent for storesporarily closed during the pandemic. mall owner simon property group claims the san francisco-based company owes three months of rent totaling $7 million. gap has more than 300 stores. >>> we have heard constant reminders to wash our hands to stop the spread of coronavirus. a with abc 7 news's commitment to building a better bay area, david louie puts the spotlight on a nonprofit group that's recycling used hotel soap as the demand grows but the supply dwindles. >> it's something most of us don't had it been. we stay at a hotel, use the soap set out by housekeepers and then leave it behind. but it's not wasted 700 hotels in california and00sor around the wldhe disc can the a nprofit tt reprocesses . recycling centers in the u.s., europe, and asia then distribute them to victims of natural disasters, the homeless, and especially now to prevent the spread of coronavirus. each bar can be used an estimated 180 times. >> we sent about 3 million bars of soap just in the last 60 days. if you

in santa rosa, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >>> governor newsom has a sober message regarding the we areestined to do something meaningful. what do you think a private, christian, education looks like? gcu offers over 175 high quality online programs. find your purpose at grand canyon university. visit gcu.edu. >>> governor newsom today offered support for protesters and said violence is not going to be tolerated. this came a few hours after a call with president trump that he held with state governors calling for states to be more aggressive in the way they handled these demonstrations. joining us live with more on the governor's response, liz. >> larry, yes, governor newsom is taking a different approach than president trump on how to address this. president trump just called himself the law and order president before we came on the air. but governor newsom today showed support for peaceful protesters. he said that the state is lacking lacking and the country is lacking a moral leader and the answer to violence is not more violence. speaking from a black church today, governor newsom o

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. >> i'm wayne freedman with the story of small business owners, of nail >>> build a better bay area for a safe and secure future. this is "abc7 news." >> wall street's enthusiasm about the reopening economy sent stocks soaring. the dow saw 461 point gain and closed at 27,572. the nasdaq was up more than 100 points. the s&p gained 38. investors are optimistic that the worst of the recession may be behind us. today, economists declared the recession began in february, ending a decade of growth, the longest expansion on record. >> the world bank says the world will see its deepest recession since the end of world war ii, predigging economic activity will drop by 5%, the fourth worst global downturn. and the coronavirus may have been present in china several months before the chinese government reported it. researchers compared satellite photos of wuhan hospital parking lots from october 2019 to the year before and counted a higher number of cars, that was nearly three months before the chinese government announced the existence of the virus. researchers found an increase in internet se

. >>> i'm wayne freedman in sonoma county where at this time tomorrow, they hope to see customers.hat's coming up. >>> i'm spencer christian. it's getting windy out there and cooling down as well. i'll have the accuweather forecast coming u z3wvmz z1s6z y3wvmy y1s6y >>> sky 7 is live over vallejo where people are marching through the streets. you see a large crowd of them there. this is a peaceful protest over the shooting death of a young man earlier this week. you see them going through that intersection there. this is sky 7 live over vallejo. >>> tomorrow sonoma county expect to take a big step toward getting back to normal oaf an amended health order opening pools, hair salons, indoor restaurants, outdoor sports and even churches. but the final details were slow to arrive as abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman explains to getting in rohnert park. >> ever since fox tail golf club reopened, every golfer shared one thing in common. where do you live? >> petaluma. >> down the street in rohnert park. >> they're from sonoma park. an order they hoped may change by tomorrow as reopening

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wayne freedman includes troduce the people behind it. >> reporter: a person might surmise that maybe they changed the name of this grand old street, but that wouldprur erevolution. >> it is shouting that something is wrong and we need change. >> reporter: and this display of murals is so powerful that it has drawn people in across the region. their importance so deep that some of the best explanations may be metaphorical. >> it is a boiling point just like anything else. it is not that the fire wasn't there under the water, it has just gotten to a point where it has changed. >> reporter: when the artist enlisted friends to put this up a couple weeks ago, they had no idea how long it or any of this work would last. now randolph bell has made it his business to begin preserving them. >> we make something out of nothinhicase we're making something out of something. >> reporter: at the heart of this, would be word. co represents a moment but the moment sprung from a movement. it is history and oftentimes we see history on walls before we read good it in books. what we have seen in our st

more now from abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman. >> reporter: in santa rosa's courthouse square today, a point of protest over george floyd and in the process, a case of comparison and contrast to other demonstrations here. last weekend, they got out of control, leading to more scenes of looting and damaged property and, according to police chief navarro, one arrest. >> we've seen a lot of vandalism >> reporter: now a can yurfew fr santa sa startgt 8:0t'ng sicken going down the same path at other businesses. >> reporter: diana rhodes had to be told what the letters stood for but spent this morning scrubbing them off the window where she works. >> there's not another way for people to express their feelings, and that makes me sad. he she began joy o'dell felt organizing this protest. >> i don't think that's the way to go about anything. we're fighting violence and trying to end that situation for our community. we shouldn't be inflicting it. >> reporter: college students turned out today plus chief navarro who made a strong statement on his own by taking a knee with everyone else here

and as wayne freedman shows us, rv sales are booming because of social distancing. >> it has a generatoras a stove, propane. >> reporter: there is nothing better for a boy with a new toy than knowing he had a good excuse for buying it. >> a tv. >> reporter: frederick is still in the getting to know you phase with a new e plans to use both for work and vacation. he's had enough uncertainties from covid-19. >> you can actually book in advance a hotel and at the last minute there is a surge in the pandemic and boom, they cancel. so you don't want to do that. >> reporter: and that logic seems to being peaking for the rv business. >> it is off the rails. >> reporter: craig smith at santa rosa rv does not spend much time sitting down these days as new customers keep coming in. >> nice big spacious living room, >> reporter: in a typical week, they might sell six rvs. last week, 22 of them. >> that is a record week for us. that is normally what we sell in a moontnth. >> reporter: and sales have doubled in general. >> we'll probably be running real shy about the middle of the summer and then look

wayne freedman has the difference between fears and realities in a small town. >> in windsor tonight, something doesn't fit. we'll make you wait for it after showing the quiet street, the idyllic spring sun, and the stars and stripes in a bedroom community of 27,000 people where only 5% are african american. so what's with this? >> this is -- yeah, it's a pretty surreal. >> he put the boards up last night for fear of protesting or vandalism overflowing from santa rosa after rumors of violence or looting coming here. >> floyd is one part of this big picture. >> the other part, the protest picture has grown so large that it has reached out to a town like this with the boards on the sides of buildings. why windsor, locals ask. why not, others say. well, the mayor has established a 9:00 p.m. curfew tonight. >> i think the bad actors are not from here. >> does windsor really need a curfew? >> i'd say tonight we do. >> in windsor, like everywhere else, covid-19 has been hard on small businesses. lupe has owned this business for 16 years. when she heard protesters are coming, are you worried

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this weekend, hair salons are now allowed to open their doors in sonoma c abc 7 news reporter wayne freedmanked into some of the changes that we'll see in a covid-19 environment. >> reporter: if you have hair, it's about time, it has been months since many of us had a coloring or cut or styling. salons are finally opening in california but not like you remember them. first when you walk in, they'll take your temperature, they'll insist you wear a mask and before you get here, you'll need to take a wellness questionnaire online. >> this takes it to another level in the sense there are new rules and protocols that we have to make sure that we are following on an everyday basis with every single guest. >> reporter: emma moore owns brush salon in healdsburg. she consulted with the sonoma county health department about what rules to put in place. nothing is solid yet but she says this industry is ready made for covid-19. >> our foundation is in sanitation and disinfection. >> reporter: here in brush they operating at any one time, not anymore. they'll have seven, every customer social distanced b

wayne freedman caught up with some of the protesters as they walked out of jail this morning. >> reporter: there has to be a morning after. it looked like this. friends, coffee and doughnuts to go with citations for misdemeanors. >>> breaking curfew and refuse to go leave a riot was the exact words. >> reporter: should people be worried about you and damage and vandalism? >> absolutely not. they should be worried about police agitating us and putting us into a position of chaos. >> reporter: it was activity last weekend that forced santa rosa to declare a curfew and then to box the downtown section. imagine owning a business trying to stay afloat in a neighborhood turned semighost town. >> it's weird. eerie. >> reporter: she would normally see 60 customers at noon. but not with the barricades and protests. >> it's a real eye opener we're going backwards not forward. >> reporter: no other option and has continuing concerns. >> we've heard from other agencies they anticipate protests in those areas. >> reporter: which explains boarded windows a few miles to the north. they're expecting a pr

when you leave, you'll do itroncally. >> a touch is for a very high touch industry. >> wayne freedman>> proper health practices are part of restoring the economy with abc7's commitment to building a better bay area. abc7 news reporter david louie puts the spotlight on a nonprofit group that is recycling used hotel soap as the demand grows but the supply distinguishes. >>. >> we stay at a hotel, use the soap and leave it behind. but it's not wasted. 700 hotels in california and eight,000 others around california send the soap to clean the world, a nonprocess that reprocesses them into bars of soap. they then distribute them to victims of natural disasters, the homeless, and especially now to prevent the spread of coronavirus. each bar can be used an estimated 180 times. >> we sent about three million bars of soap just in the last 60 days. so if you multiply that by 180 hand washes, it's hundreds of millions of preventative times that we are helping those in at-risk populations. >> however, the supply of discarded hotel soap has fallen by as much as 98% as a result of the economic downt

abc7 news reporter wayne freedman caught up with some of those protesters as they walked out of jail this morning. >> there has to be a morning after for roughly 100 protesters arrested in santa rosa last night, it looked like this. friends, coffee, and donuts to go with citations for misdemeanors. >> breaking curfew and then refusing to leave a riot was the exact word. >> should local people be worried about you and damage and vandalism? >> absolutely not. they should be worried about the police who are agitating us and putting us into a position of chaos. >> it was activity last weekend that forced santa rosa to declare a curfew and then to box the downtown section behind concrete barriers. imagine owning a business just trying to stay afloat in a neighborhood turned semi ghost town. >> it's really weird. it's eerie. >> angela grant owns an english tea house. she would normally see 60 customers at noon. but not with the barricade and the protests. >> it's a real eye-opener that we're kind of going backwards, we're not going forward. >> santa rosa police chief reynard navarro saw no

as abc 7 news warper wayne freedman shows us, rv sales are booming. how people are escaping to the open road. >> has this generator, has a stove, propane. >> reporter: there was nothing better for a boy with a new toy than knowing we a good excuse for buying it. >> got tv. >> reporter: frederick still in the getting to know you phase with a new rv he plans to use both for work and vacation. he's had enough uncertainties from covid-19. >> you can actually book in advance the hotel and at the last minute there is a surge in the pandemic, and covid-19 and boom, they cancel. so you don't want to do that. >> reporter: the logic seems to be peaking for the rv business right now. >> it's off the rails. train is off the rails. >> reporter: craig smith santa rosa rv does not spend much time sitting down these days as new customers keep coming in. >> nice big spacious living room, a full-sized refrigerator just like you'd have at home, not a little rv fridge anymore. >> in a typical week they might sell six rvs. last week 22 of them. >> that's a record week for

as abc7 news reporter wayne freedman explains, rv sales are booming because of social distancing. >> it has a generator, it has a stool, propane. >> reporter: there was nothing better for a boy with a new toy than knowing he had a good excuse for buying it. >> it has a tv. >> reporter: frederick nema, still in the getting to know you phase with a new rv he plans to use for work and vacation. he had some uncertainties with covid-19. >> you can book in advance at a hotel, and at the last minute there is a surge for the pandemic, and boom, they cancel. so you don't want to do that. >> reporter: the rv business seems to be peaking right now. epter: cra s at rv spendrails. ti sitti down these days as new customers keep coming in. >> a nice spacious living room, a full-size refrigerator like you would have at home. it's not a little rv fridge anymore. >> reporter: in a particular week, they might sell six rvs. last week, 22 of them. >> that's a record week for us. that's normally what we sell in a month. >> reporter: dealers tell us sales have doubled, a frenzy made with a shortage of unit

abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman talked with families of inmates today. >> reporter: san quentin is about the last place anyone would want to live even on the best of days. during this pandemic those inside describe the prison conditions as a version of hell. >> he's scared. i'm scared for him. >> i'm just very, very concerned that my friends are trapped in a petri dish. >> reporter: lorraine has a son inside. they are two among more than a dozen people we spoke with today of the firsthand knowledge of a hot zonin spied of the prison. >> a prison in the 1850 is not equipped to deal with a global pandemic. >> reporter: there was not a single case in may but that changed after a transfer of inmates from chino, where there had been an outbreak. later 15 of those inmates tested positive for covid-19. by then it was too late. today the state announced san quentin passed the 300 case mark, including staff members. >> how is that not their fault. now it is spreading like wildfire in there. >> reporter: since the pandemic hit our community, the department has worked tirelessly to implement

wayne freedman has more on the people behind it in oakland. >> reporter: for all the times george floyd appears along broadway in oakland, a person may surmise that maybe they changed the name of the grand old street. that would be premature, other names have been put up, in a gallery of injustice and a rallying cry of revolution for the culture. >> it's shouting that something is wrong, and we need change. >> it has drawn people from across the region. the importance so deep, that some of the best explanations may be metaphorical. >> it's a boiling point, it's not that the fire was not there under the water. it's gotten to a point where it's changed. >> reporter: when the artist enlisted friends to put this up, they had no idea how long it would last. now, randolph bell has made it his business to begin preserving them. >> we make something out of nothing. and in this case, we are making something out of something. >> reporter: at the heart of this one word, context, the idea that it represents a moment. but the moment sprung from a movement. >>> it's history. and often time we see his

francis drake high school but it is his statue getting particular attention as abc 7 news reporter wayne freedmanxplains there is a movement now to get rid of it just like in plymouth, england. >> reporter: it's eggs within eggs called cosmic embrace. this marin county sculptor isn't exactly well known but follow the signatures and some of his work is getting to be that way. this one for instance. >> i looked at it once or twice but i thought it was don quixote. >> reporter: not quite. since the black lives matter movement heated up this 30-foot statue has become controversial. >> you look at that and what emotion do you get? >> disgust. >> reporter: this statue depicts sir francis drake best known for making landfall here in 1579 but he also had a history of slave trading. >> he had to be the baddest bath tub on his boat and i didn't want to make a sculptor of him. i made a sculptor of the event. >> this is all about propelling this narrative of white superiority. >> reporter: when lauren brown saw protesters on sir francis drake boulevard last week it struck her as ironic hence the petition now

. >> i'm wayne freedman in healdsburg.r north bay community with boarded up windows, but they say they're not ee. that's coming up. >>> i'm laura anthony in walnut creek. police here and in other bay area cities have used tear gas in recent days, be now some are calling for that practice to stop. >> now from abc7, live breaking news. >> sky 7 is live over the biggest demonstration in the bay area right now, and one of the biggest we've seen this week. a crowd of thousands, look at them all, in san francisco. calling for justice for george floyd. good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. thousands of people in cities across the bay area have showed up to stand up for what they believe in today. every gathering we've witnessed has been pea >> let's go to abc7 news lyanne melendez. she is in san francisco at the largest event today. and we have her on the phone. lyanne? >> yeah, hi. i'm on 16th and valencia. big crowds going by here. right now people arrived here in the mission district,

. >>> i'm wayne freedman.or the start of the korean >>> president trump and the first lady attend ad ceremony today marking the 70th anniversary of the start of the korean war. a handful of veterans from what is known as the forgotten war attended the ceremony at the korean war memorial in washington, d.c. the war lasted three years with more than 33,000 americans losing their lives. >>> and normally, of course, anniversaries like today's would be met with a large observance in san francisco's presidio. that was before covid-19. as wayne explains, it did not keep one man away. >> some of the longest walks in life can be the shortest. at least symbolically. at the korean war memorial in san francisco's presidio, this would be one of them. >> we lost a lot of good men. >> in years past, there korean war anniversary has drawn a large crowd. but the presidio won't allow that now. this june 25th, lieutenant colonel john stevens and his wife joanne laying a wreath. >> we make trips here fairly often, for him to say

. >> reporter: covid-19 style, in healdsburg, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> the couple that chose toheir wedding at a protest, the story where re fl wed >>> thousands of protesters took to the streets of philadelphia yesterday but two stood out, a bride and a groom. >> black lives matter! black lives matter! [ cheers and applause ] >> there they are, carrie ann and michael gordon starting their small wedding ceremony outdoors as through tos showed up to protest police brutality. they knew the protest was happening but decided to keep their date there anyway. they postponed their larger wedding party to next year because of the pandemic and wanted to be married. the couple joined the demonstration after their ceremony. carrie ann says it was a powerful moment. wow. that is something. >>> a null new hour of "abc 7 mornings" coming up and important new details on the suspect ambushed and killing a santa cruz county deputy. gunshots and a van full of explosives. investigators think he had a sinister plan. >>> a teenager turns an idea for change into this a march that stops traffic along

in the north bay, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> sounds fun. >>> next, commencement day on the farm.ford is doing for graduates. baby's skin is absorbent. her skin could actually soak up wetness that her diaper doesn't. that's why i use pampers. pampers traps and locks wetness away keeping baby's skin drier and healthier. the health of your baby's skin starts with the pampers they're in. when why are we alwaysiful hair, shown the same thing? where's my bounce? my glamour? my fire? all hair is beautiful. these dove shampoo and conditioners are custom formulated for different hair types. find the right dove care for your hair. >>> happening today, it's graduation for stanford's class of 2020 of course with a much different ceremony this year. the hour-long live streamed commencement will be filled with speeches where stanford will acknowledge the unusual circumstances. the university says it's committed to having a regular commencement once everyone is ready to gather on campus again. it gets going in a few minutes at 10:00 this morning. >>> sign of the times, lisa, but we're excited f

>> the north bay, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >> i have a friend doing exactly that, sign of the timesxt on the list of congratulations completely different this year, stanford university it's commencement day for the cardinal class of 2020. next a look at what stanford is >>> happening today is graduation day for stanford's class of 2020 with a much different ceremony this year. the hour-long live commencement will be filled with student speeches on what stanford says will acknowledge the unusual circumstances. the university is committed to having an in-person commencement once everyone is able to gather back on campus again. the virtual ceremony gets going at 10:00 a.m. this morning. congratulations to all of them and it was santa clara university's turn yesterday. governor gavin newsom gave the speech for his alma mater. >> dr. king said we're bound together by a web of mutuality. the work did you to graduate is a recognition we're all better off when we're all better off. we're in this together. there's no leak on your side of our boat. >> this video was provided to abc 7 news by