>>well, i don't think it's anything that the state of california is doing wrong and not it's what the response of the to what the opening process is. >>doctor anthony fauci the nation's top infectious disease expert in the leader of the national coronavirus task force weighed in today and california's response to the coronavirus and issues with the reopening our capitol bureau reporter ashley zavala explains his warnings for our state. >>that from from the leadership doctor anthony fauci a key leader in the nation's coronavirus response complimentary of california but says its people could do more californians have risen. >>to the occasion on on social

issues so well in the past you've been the leaders in the country and those things. this is an issue that really has social responsibility in an interview with the sacramento press club fauci warned the next few weeks are going to be crucial for the country, including california. the warning comes as the state now sees an uptick in the rate of positive coronavirus cases i don't think it's anything that the state of california. >>is doing wrong and not it's what the response of the to what the opening process is governor newsom said wednesday with plenty of hospital capacity and other resources prepared in the event of a surge, he doesn't plan on putting california's reopening process on pause and as long as we start to see more and more compliance. >>with mask mandate. and then i think we can move forward more safely and work our way through this without having to toggle back fauci praise state leadership and the governor's mask order urging californians to follow it. but he also left

something for the governor to consider in many respects i agree with him. he don't really need to go back to lock down he need to pause and say wait a minute. >>we're starting to opening and things are going right what do we need to do to correct that you may need to stay where you are in impose a few more restrictions or maybe back up a little. >>in sacramento, ashley zavala kron 4 news. >>more than half of the country is currently going in the wrong direction in the fight against covid 1926 states now seeing surges in coronavirus infections in florida cases are rising for younger people ages 18 to 35. the governor says he will not mandate masks to be worn statewide but in palm beach county commissioners voted in favor of a mass requirement. but some are calling that a violation of their constitutional rights. >>you know if you want to make this a constitutional crisis, let's talk about the 121,000

plus dead americans who are no longer able to pursue their happiness. >>today authorities in tulsa oklahoma reported 259 new positive cases that's a record for the county. just days after president trump held a rally there health officials are urging anyone who attended that rally to get tested. new york, new jersey and connecticut have all teamed up now to force travelers from high-risk states to quarantine anyone entering from a state with a high infection rate of covid-19 we'll have to self quarantine for 14 days as of now 9 states meet that threshold and we've listed them on your screen california not on it. anyone who refuses to self quarantine will face $2000 fine on the first violation and up to $10,000. if any refusal for quarantine ends up causing harm. the rule goes into effect at midnight tonight. and happening now the governor of hawaii is announcing plans to modify a

travel ban in that state up until now anyone traveling to hawaii had to immediately enter a 14 day quarantine upon their arrival people traveling to the state will have to be tested for covid-19 and can avoid the quarantine with a negative test. the governor speaking there live right now. we're have producers listening in to this press conference will have an update for you tonight on kron 4 news at 6. now the european union is considering closing its borders to travelers from some countries, including the united states to protect its citizens from coronavirus they will consider several factors, including the number of new infections. in the visitors country. the trend of new infections and the response. in areas like testing containment treatment and reporting. the u.s. has the highest rate of covid-19 related deaths and infections in the world. workers at both disney parks here in the united states are worried about the company's plans to reopen next month. disney aims to reopen all 12 of its theme

parks around the world by mid july. more than 7,000 employees at disney world in nearly 50,000 workers at disneyland have signed petitions calling for disney to reconsider the plans. staffers argue it's not fair to ask people who work there to risk their lives. we'll take a live look outside right now to talk about our 4 zone forecast and there is a shot of a very foggy golden gate bridge, very similar scene from yesterday. well that fog make its way further inland, let's find out right now with our chief meteorologist lawrence karnow high doing tonight, hey doing well watching the clock dance around the bay area tonight, pretty thick out there told to get out toward the golden gate bridge actually. >>the highway patrol have dense fog advisory out there for a while there was pretty thick. >>likely going to thicken up again tonight, couple white caps out there on the bay waters of the sea breeze starting to pick up that's going to carry the fog back on shore and here we go we're locked into the summer pattern, you know the deal as we're going to see the fog low clouds roll back in tonight into early tomorrow morning only to break up and peel back

toward the coastline, leaving lots of sunshine behind maybe couple pop-up showers but not as much over the sierra nevada by tomorrow afternoon little more northerly component developing all the models not as bullish on it to i think we see a little more sunshine even out toward the beaches on friday and warmer temperatures too. that said numbers not going to be bad you'll see 50's and 60's in the san francisco plan on some patchy fog, especially toward 59 degrees in half moon bay, 61. in pacifica 70 degrees sunny in millbrae 70 degrees also in burlingame number turn the 77 san carlos 80 in redwood city, 86 in san jose to to milpitas still some hot 90's in the interior valleys tomorrow afternoon about 79 degrees in hayward 70 forecast valley, 76 in oakland 73 degrees in berkeley 94. get hot and conquered about 91 degrees and fairfield 86 in benicia back toward the coastline will keep that cool fog in place. they hugged the coast, the better part of the day. next couple of days, we'll see those temperatures actually get a little bit hotter on friday that will probably be the peak of the heat, some temperatures

inland near triple digits that we start to cool down a little bit on saturday. the winds pick up and much cooler on sunday. >>thank you lawrence now san mateo county officials officially allowed gyms to reopen on monday and that was huge for personal trainers, danny in teresa gordon the married couple owns the body studio for fitness and foster city and after being shut down for 100 days they are back making their clients wet with several new safety measures in place. and you go. >>it's official we're open again it took sweat and grit to get to this moment here we are open back so happy to see our audience their love and their after more than 100 days of being shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic the body studio for fitness is back open, but no one gave us a band have run so we were

like trying to figure out how to do this run by danny and teresa gordon the married couple moved quickly to stay afloat when their door shut in march, a small business loan from foster city helped. so did virtual fitness classes, they made for clients both on demand and personalized at home sessions so yet to be created what they had their chairs couches cume very are the first day open at the body studio for business on monday when san mateo county gave gyms the green light to reopen danny and teresa were more than ready now everyone wears a mask all the equipment is sanitized before and after use with a 15 minute buffer between clients plus people stay 6 feet apart we've done and we we created these words. >>and there's 4 squares inside

he's where as everything that you need to train the quiet yes, so there are some workout stations. it was always a matter of when not if they would open back up. >>and they are stronger now than ever before we learned that you know being humble seize the moment. >>that's right danny teresa tells me that the virtual workouts that they created to stay afloat we're actually a really big success and they plan on keep making those videos moving forward. much more ahead tonight here on kron 4 news at 5 attorney general william barr has agreed to testify before congress next month. >>at 5.45 why some justice department workers will be testifying against him. >>the trump administration says it's imposing sweeping restrictions on foreign worker visas to help the u.s. economy. coming up, i'll tell you why ceo has warned the strategy could backfire. and up next after years of lawsuits, the company bayer now agreeing to pay billions of doll the farmer john bare

says will pay more than billion to settle thousands of lawsuits claiming that its popular weed killer roundup causes cancer. >>most of these lawsuits are inherited from monta santo which bayer bought back in 2018 for billion in 3 separate lawsuits here in the bay area over the past 2 years. judges found that roundup contributed to cancer and for different

people on monday a california federal court ruled the company does not have to label roundup as containing any cancer causing chemicals. greg glassman the founder of crossfit is now selling the company this comes weeks after he made several controversial comments and tweets referencing referencing george floyd's death and the coronavirus pandemic glassman resigned from his post as chief executive 2 weeks ago, but not before hundreds of jim's dropped out of their affiliation with crossfit and the company last major corporate sponsors, including reebok and rogue fitness a crossfit gym owner boulder colorado is expected now to buy the company. gnc has filed for bankruptcy and will close up to 1200 stores, including locations in emeryville gilroy palo alto santa rosa and union city. the 85 year-old vitamin and dietary supplement company is facing nearly a billion

dollars in debt and sales were already declining before the pandemic the company hopes to emerge from bankruptcy in the fall. still ahead tonight, the case against former trump adviser michael flynn has been

>>so we have some breaking news right now we talk about the story just a few minutes ago, but this just in to the kron 4 news room disneyland is delaying the phased reopening of his disneyland and disney california adventure theme

parks. the company just made this announcement within the past few minutes. the resort located in anaheim california was set to welcome guests back on july 17th after being closed for months because of the pandemic but disneyland did not give a new reopening date for the disneyland resort, this is still a developing news story. we're working to get more information and of course we'll have it for you tonight on kron 4 news at 6. now a federal appeals court has ordered a judge to dismiss the case against former trump adviser michael flynn. this despite flynn pleading guilty twice for lying to the fbi about his conversations with a russian ambassador. the justice department moved last month to dismiss the case against him. the judge in the case did not immediately act instead asking for a review of the decision. and today the court determined there was not enough reason to question the d o j's decision. the ruling exonerates flynn after he tried to change his plea and claim innocence. the case may not be over though appeals

could continue for weeks or even into next year. and it could even go to the supreme court. attorney general william barr is set to testify before congress next month. a justice department spokesperson tweeted that barr has accepted an invitation to appear before the house judiciary committee on july 28th. this comes amid growing calls for barr to be impeached. justice department employees are preparing to testify against him calling his decision making political and accusing barr of bowing too much to president trump's wish us. tomorrow is the deadline for the trump administration to file court documents in their effort to scrap the affordable care act. republicans say they want to start over on health care reform, but house democrats have put together a new bill to keep obamacare alive. democrats say the bill reduces out of pocket costs and premiums and protect patients from unfair medical bills, something they believe is especially important during

the covid-19 pandemic taking down the affordable care act. >>right in the heart of the time of the in a pandemic. it was wrong anytime now it's. >>beyond stupid. >>right now democrats expect to pass the bill in the house next week. president trump did issue an executive order this week suspending new work visas in a wide variety of categories from high skilled tech workers to low skilled seasonal workers. our washington correspondent alexandra le mon reports critics say the restrictions will actually slow job growth. >>the trump administration is extending sweeping restrictions on foreign worker visa programs through the end of the year customs and border protection commissioner mark morgan said the action is designed to preserve american jobs for americans it makes sense that as we are. >>at this historic rate that we're in and we're trying to

restart the economy that we do take a look at that. well from a global perspective. morgan says the move will also keep americans healthy year we're seeing in covert increase outside our borders but nevada congresswoman dina titus says that's just an excuse but know trump is that isn't colin barrow is endemic. >>to go after immigrants there are exceptions to the visa restrictions like for farm and food processing plant workers critics like titus say the new rules are like a not welcome sign for the brightest around the world, how he skilled highly educated engineer for example, business leaders and ceo's also warned the move could backfire and slow economic growth because there aren't enough properly trained americans to fill the jobs that ranged from tech industry workers to college professors the u.s. chamber of commerce said in a statement that the restrictions will push investment and economic

activity abroad at microsoft president brad smith said immigrants play a vital role at microsoft and support the country's critical infrastructure in washington, alexandra le mon. >>and the driver rescued from his burning car it was all caught on camera. why the good samaritan says he a man in

stanislaw county says instinct took over after he witnessed a car accident earlier this

week. he says he jumped into action and pulled a man out from a burning car. >>as you can see there this heroic act was caught on camera and melanie window shows us what happened. >>basically we're diving that also. i might see some dust. and dramatic moments caught on cell phone video sunday afternoon falling a pickup trucks crash off highway one o 8. >>near knights ferry in stanislaw county live you are back and they got flames burning and smoke already billowing from the crash site or you die without a second thought good samaritan john phelps knew he needed to help i park in surrey was there a second are said i don't i got that inspire and excite me it's not so he took off down an embankment, not giving a second thought to his own

safety really worry about all that stuff i had that. >>and that time to get out there. it was going to happen did not and in bad in seconds john assessed what he needed to do and knew he needed to act fast not found a guy suspended its seat belt for you so he freed the victim from his seat belt and worked with the sheriff's deputy who arrived shortly thereafter to pull the man away from the crash over about the 3 it's going to explode get away. i was like i said it's going to john's wife corrina who captured the cell phone video staying cool under pressure while watching her husband in a life threatening situation as he helped to save a crash victim i was praying, i'm

praying my head at >>but others first, anybody can get anybody ensure that we both feeling thankful they could lend a hand. >>i feel good about it so i'm glad about that right at the right place >>how is melanie when go reporting for us tonight, the victim in the crash is expected to make a full recovery and that wraps up kron 4 news at 5 i'm justine waldman and our coverage will continue at 6 i'll see you there and for the second day in a row california reports a record number of covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are also rising. governor gavin newsome now pleading with us to take this virus seriously and the consequences could be even more dire.

>>news at 6. we begin to go back. >>to our old ways and old habits. the consequence is we are spreading this virus. >>now at 6 a dire message from governor gavin newsome as the state continues its reopening process amid the covid-19 pandemic the latest number showing california is trending in the wrong direction. good

evening. thank you so much for joining us here tonight, i'm justine waldman for the second day in a row california has reported a record number of covid-19 cases overnight more than 7100 new cases were reported today. a jump of more than 2000 cases from yesterday which was also a record number even more concerning hospitalizations due to covid-19 are also rising, that's the issue as kron four's theresa stasi reports governor newsom says now is the time to heed the warnings or else. >>it is or behaviors that are leading to these numbers and we are putting people's lives at risk governor gavin newsome getting right to the point. >>covid-19 cases are surging in california causing alarm. i mean to say that to be modeling to be hyperbolic but we lost 52 individuals again in the last 24 hours, 65. on ue