l.a. county. steve patterson is in north l.a. what's the situation there? >> reporter: the situation is new record breaking numbers overnight recorded in california. those went out in the last hour or so. first one is the single day death toll from overnight, 157 new deaths. that's the highest single day death toll california has seen so far. next highest was 148. that comes close to the record breaking day yesterday of cases. and the number that health officials are maybe most paying attention to is the seven day positivity rate. now shot up to 8%. far up from beginning of the week. that's the number when you hear things, like the governor has his finger on the dimmer switch, the l.a. city mayor has his finger on the dimmer switch and that's the number they're paying attention to. it tells you about community spread, tells you about availability of testing. we heard from both the mayor or governor in person or through their state or county health departments. neither of them is saying the

the situation there getting worse in l.a., l.a. county just broke its record for cases and hospitalizations. what is happening there on the ground, what is -- if there is any explanation at all, what is it? >> reporter: you know, this is an alarming number, more than 4200 new cases reported in a single day. that is not for the state, that is literally just for l.a. county, more than 2100 hospitalizations right now. those are record numbers. and it really has people concerned here, including l.a. mayor eric garcetti, who said that the city is this close to perhaps being shutdown again. that means that you would have to stay at home, you could only leave to go to work or for essential tasks, already in l.a. county, indoor dining, gyms, salons, those things have already been shut down. so things could get even tighter in l.a., if things don't trend in the right direction. l.a. has long been the main e epicenter when it comes to coronavirus in california. there is a smaller epicenter in the southeast corner of the state, imperial count

l.a. struggled to understand why would anyone kill all these people, and why in such a sadistic manner? the lapd searched for clues in the surrounding brush, along the neighbors, as of course did the ever-growing army of reporters. >> the lights weren't on, and usually the gate light is on at least. >> why would you take note of that? >> it's always been on. >> strange. despite all the carnage, no real clues, though there was this one thing. >> it was revealed that a small amount of narcotics was found in the foreign sports car of seabring. >> some pot and hash were found in the house too. so now police and the press began to wonder could the murders have had something to do with the lifestyles that sharon and her fabulous friends led? in mourning, in shock, director roman polanski found himself in front of a camera, defending his dead wife. >> sharon not only didn't use drugs. she didn't touch alcohol. she didn't smoke cigarettes. >> all sharon was thinking about was her baby, he added. t

here in south l.a. wetlands, there's proof that coyotes use this area because i'm finding coyote scat inside these fences. coyotes are spspecies that most people know live in the l.a. area, but people think that they live in the mountains-- ountainousus areas or griffifith park, where there's more open space, but really don't think of them as animals able to adapt to this type of landscape. [car alarm beeps] back to the ranger station. yeah, so, we're in griffith park, and here e is one right here. this park is surrounded by freeway, by urbanization, by some major barriers for wildlife. so, we just saw two, maybe 3 coyotes within this picnic area. so, they know that this resource is here on a regular basis. coyotes are doing pretty well in this urban landscape thanks to their adaptability, but the mountain lions are another story. they really need some help if they're going to have a population here for multiple generations to come. i use camera traps, which are motion-activated cameras that have a sens

then, i moved to l.a. because i'm partying and l.a. and i have friends there. i love dancing. allought i will dance summer and go to all these parties then i will go to san francisco and get a job. i never did, because i waited too late. i got stuck in l.a.. >> and that's for you stayed. what did you end up doing for work? next -- my last bill, l.a.embly unified school district. i taught people working for masters. you know i have a doctorate in even behavior. i taught graduate students career psychology. at cal lutheran and mount st. mary's. usa you san diego. my masters at usc. .alifornia i'm a california person. >> i want to ask more details sit-ins. what is the experience you went through their outside of jim crow that was different from where you are raised? sit-ins, whatthe did you bring back to california from that experience? ms. grinnell: that the wheels of .ustice turn slowly i often thought, what i do it -- would i do it again? yes, i would do it again. it did hurt me job wise. i went for a job and the guy said i had to hire you because you made a high score on the

yeah i always found when i 1st got to l.a. that all i had to do was actually drive to the court galaxy. yeah i would have a screed to core with could be just used to give the split your apartment new york and walk to it. if you get on a freeway and get off. later but then when i get them it was pretty much the sake or jelly was i always i was felt that everybody out there the unspoken dialogue was listen i'm looking to make it good enough to be sheepish about it there are times when i'd be at other places i'd say oh i don't want to look like i want to go for this that or i don't want to be this what act i got everybody hears in place so you don't have to know it's true it's true i mean if there's something really comfortable about that but like you just know it we all have the same dream and it's not embarrassing. when you were a kid with the jet chops then before college or to you know i try to think back i never thought i in my own head i would be sardonic but i was one of those kids who was doing hells of pop and in the rec

one thing that i have confidence in and l.a. county and l.a. city is that the mayor and the board of supervisors, they are going to follow the science. that will be what determines whether or not we open or we close. you really can't go anywhere in l.a. without seeing people with mask on so it just shows how challenging this virus is but if you think about many other states where the governor's saying one thing, the mayors are fighting. you can understand why that's not under control but l.a. county has done what it should have done in the beginning. opened too fast and i know we'll follow the science. if the science says shut down i know we will shut down. >> you know what the science is. i'm just asking you a hypothetical, if you were in charge of l.a. county would you go back to stay-at-home orders in order to reduce the spread of this deadly virus? yes or no? >> if i were in charge of l.a. county i would go back to that and be very, very conservative how we opened up so you know you have to show a certain amount before you open up, a time p

social distancing rules were followed. >>> l.a. mayor eric garcetti is not issuing another full stay-at-home order for now but l.a. is spending $2 million a day on coronavirus testing. garcetti is asking for federal relief for cities like l.a. who has not seen any reimbursement from testing and despite the hint about shut down over the weekend thanks to infection rates holding steady, nonessential businesses will stay open. >>> the nearly four-month wait for baseball is finally over for fans. today is opening day and the giants are among the first to take the field to battle it out against the l.a. dodgers. "today's in the bay" mekahlo medina is live. we're excited for the game. >> everyone is excited for the game. i wish i could say i am a giants fan but i have been a dodgers fan since i was 5 years old and opening day 2020 has got me smiling. california smiling and the fans here at dodger stadium, well, they're going to be cardboard cutouts this time around. no fans allowed as opening day gets under way and about 150 bucks to 300

l.a. county believes it is below the threshold of 1.0 statewide in the aggregate. shed somey, can you light on the u.s. air force military personnel being and why los angeles county was selected as a location for two hospitals to receive the military aid? gov. newsom: both perfectly positioned with the doctor in know, thee, as you doctor comes from l.a. and has been working in collaborative relationships with his wife, who runs the system down there. better to have him answer the question. i appreciateay, you acknowledging l.a. county and finally imperial below one as well. the doctor is better to answer the question. let me bring him up. >> thank you, governor, and thank you for the question. indeed, as the governor described, we don't live in the aggregate. the infection through the state is different. some counties are below one, and all that means is a single person who is infected today is going to in fact -- to infected that number of people next. you drop below one, you are starting

pressure the l.a. times to fire cartoonist ted rall because of his anti-police drawings and commentary or was he the problem wall will be here to make its case so you've asked the right person a great discussion with the ventura panel jesse and tyrrell money a father son combo weighing in on everything from working together here on r t to the toppling of statues don't miss it. and how about some must see independence day programming a speech by nation of islam leader louis farrakhan well we'll tell you who scheduled it and then pulled it and why that might have happened i'm steve walz berg let's see the press. oh yeah oh. jesus wishes. to buy. a law everybody happy 4th of july weekend and i want to thank you for putting the press on your holiday menu i'd like to start with one of the most egregious examples. of advocacy slash agenda driven journalism i've ever seen in my life c.n.n.'s brooke baldwin had a guest on from black lives matter an organizer named molina abdula and she sat back and let her say

well l.a. city councilman jose was are has been charged with one count of conspiring to violate the racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act better known as rico for allegedly selling the city to several real estate developers including the wealthy head of a chinese company seeking to build a $77.00 story skyscraper downtown in exchange for approving or stalling large building projects we thought reportedly received more than one and a half $1000000.00 in bribes and perks including campaign contributions lavish dinners and stacks of casino chips the city councilman has represented the 14th district covering east los angeles and downtown l.a. since 2005 and has chaired the planning and land use management committee which he was forced to step down from in the wake of this investigation if convicted weeds are faces up to 20 years in federal prison you know to me this this is a broader involvement than just this one case for example when when you had the russians start spending money in t

what is your reaction to the l.a. unified school district's decision not to reopen this fall for in class learning? >> it's a huge, massive mistake. we will be paying for it for a long time. thank you for everything you have set because you articulated everything i wanted to say perfectly. i can't tell you how many times consistently teachers have called me they want it open. there was a survey that was done for parents and the majority of l.a. parents want to go back to school. teachers want to go back to school. but unfortunately, this union as a bully. teachers are being highly encouraged to vote along for the safe line of thinking that in the end, you know, based on their objectives of the union. i'm here to tell you that it's not. it's not the majority of california parents. kids don't have lobbyists, kids don't have unions speaking on their behalf. and speaking the truth. we are not having a conversation about the impact of covid versus closure. i think the long-term, kids are going to be much more impacted most

as mentioned earlier earlier, the l.a. teachers union and harmeet said they are making these crisis demands. it's like an ongoing watching in real-time attempts at extortion, we want to educate your kids in person unless u you give us certain liberal pet projects like defunding the police. now a moratorium on new charter schools? can't have competition. and taxpayer handouts for illegals to welcome people in the country and we educate the children we have to runaway unions exploiting this tragedy, like everybody else knocking down statues, they want to knock down education to get more concessions. joining me now is rebecca friedrich, former california schoolteacher and the union rep, also the lead plaintiff in that landmark 2016 supreme court case against the nda and company teachers association. rebecca, i didn't think much of the teachers unions before covid and now i'm frankly disgusted because it's obvious they are putting students last and teachers unions' political demands first. your take? >> i am so thrilled that y

then, i moved to l.a., because i'm partying in l.a. i have friends there. this is during the summertime. i love dancing. and i thought, "i'll dance all summer, go to all these parties, and then, i'll go up to san francisco and get a job." well, i never did, because i waited too late. [laughter] so, i got stuck in l.a. david: yeah. gloria: yeah. david: and that's where you stayed? gloria: uh-huh. david: yeah. and what did you end up doing for work? gloria: my last job was ab 9, assembly bill 922, which is an expulsion counselor for l.a., los angeles unified school district. david: okay. gloria: lausd, yeah. david: so, did you work for the schools for most of your career then? gloria: well, i taught people working for masters. you know i have a doctorate in human behavior? david: mm-hmm. gloria: so, i taught graduate students career psychology at cal lutheran and mount st. mary's. david: okay. gloria: yeah. david: where did you do your graduate work? gloria: at usau san diego. david: okay. so, back to california. [laughs] gloria: yeah, well, my masters at usc

also deaths at l.a. senior facilities are down. >> and the current rate is now 80% down from where it was at its peak. thank you to everybody who has been a part of that work. >> as for testing funding, garcetti believes $250 million should go to u.s. cities. he recommends congress not go on vacation until a new stimulus is approved. >>> well, it is time to play ball. next on "today in the bay" the big changes expected as the giants take on the giants in the season opener. >>> happening now for you, we're learning more about that massive hack that happened last week. you remember that one? well, twitter now says in addition to 130 accounts like former president barack obama, former vice president joe biden and bill gates being compromised, hackers also accessed 36 direct messaging inboxes. now direct messaging pretty much like phone calls text messaging and it is considered to be private. the fbi continues to investigate that hack. we'll have much more for you right after the break. 4:53. dear california

vincent down in l.a. county. we procured sites, different parts in sacramento, the old sleep train arena where now the sacramento kings used to play. those sites, many of those sites still available to us in what we call warm status all part and parcel of a larger portfolio to meet the needs as we see an increase in the spread of covid-19. speaking of spread, this slide gives you sense of what our existing hospital foot print looks like. we have 416 hospitals in this state you one thing you'll see from this slide is they're not equally distributed in various parts of the state. you have roughly plus or minus a few thousand, 20,000 plus licensed beds in l.a. in sutter county you have just 14. so depending on where you live, the assets are different. that could represent a huge percentage. i give you information in the aggregate but remind you that none of us live in the aggregate. we live in cities and counties with total information you people number of people. we have been providing a mindful way of where those

ventura and l.a. are two examples where their local elected officials and health officers moved forward to make modifications in terms of accessing their beaches this weekend. the state of california has not mandated the closure of beaches this weekend, but we are modifying our parking facility operations and closing them to traffic throughout the southern region as well as parts of monterey county, santa cruz, in through the bay area on and up along the north coast all the way to sonoma county. that information is on our parts website, but that is the new mandate that we are putting out today. by the way, that includes consideration of modifications on some of our larger state parks where we have seen increased activity where people simply aren't able to practice social distancing or physical distancing and those modifications are being made as well. in order to support the efforts and i reference the efforts in ventura county and l.a. county and their desire at the local level, the determination to

he's basically saying l.a. has a color coded system and l.a. is at orange and feels the city is close to red. and if the city hits red then you will basically be looking at a shutdown again going back to staying at home and the mayor issuing that warning so people are paying close attention to what's happening here in california trying to i guess rebend the curve if you will. >> and, joe, what does this mean? we know in southern california, we had l.a. county and san diego county announce the school decision collectively. what kind of impact for the rest of the state? what point is the uc system, for instance, going to announce what they do in the fall? is everything on hold on that front? and other places. >> reporter: it's hard to say and to see what the colleges decide to do and we will are seeing with the k-12 school different decisions being made and l.a. and san diego, they came out together with a joint statement both scheduled to reopen next month, first l.a. at the beginning of the month and san diego at the end of the month saying we

l.a. county reports more than 100,000 total cases more than 43 other states. how are l.a. hospitals right now and what can be done to prepare for the likelihood that there will be a surge in patients? >> laura, thank you for having me tonight. what we are doing in los angeles with the hospitals is really every day, 24 hours a day. we are really monitoring the situation and assessing what is happening in our county and what is happening with our hospitalization rate and what is happening with testing. in the early parts of the pandemic, the state of california and l.a. county thanks to the measures by governor newsom and mayor garcetti, we fared really well for a city with 10 million people in l.a. what we have seen is in the past two weeks we hit our peak at the end of april and were seeing nice plateauing of the numbers but unfortunately in the past two weeks the numbers are shooting up again making us all concerned. we have started to gradually open things back up and it is summer. the beaches were open. we began to see a lot more people congregating in groups, people no

. >> giants going for a split against that blue team in l.a., the dodgers. five rubs in the first, was it enough to hold want restand schools?pen? want the economy to get back on track? you're not alone. and you can help make it happen. stay 6 feet apart. wash your hands. wear a mask every time you leave your home. choose to join the fight against covid-19. do your part. slow the spread. >>> after saturday's loss, a's manager bob melvin was one hit away from getting back in the i game. a's back. matt olson brings in a run. 1-0 oakland right away. mark can nah, base hit into right field. it's 3-0, oakland. a's are going to pour it on in the first inning. robbie gloss grosman at the plate. ground ball gets through to the right side into right field. 4-0, oakland and that ends otani's day before he can even record an out. two on for mike trout and the three-time mvp says see you later. three-run shot to left. just like that, it's a 5-3 ball game. but the a's up 5-4 now. now. sean murphy with his first home run of the year. every win is big in this shortened sea

l.a. mayor garcetti telling everybody in los angeles you need to stay vigilant. >> even though we know it's going to be very hot this weekend, it's not a green light for a pool party or barbecue. please don't do that. build on the good work of this past week. it's better to be at home. i know this can be frustrating. i know it's been a long, long time. and i know that we feel like there will never be an end to this. but we do know that there are lives at stake, every single decision and every single day. >> reporter: and as we try to flatten the curve again in los angeles, so far 156,000 people have been tested here at dodgers stadium alone, alex. >> paul, we're learning that there's a clothing company called l.a. apparel that has been ordered to close after they reported four coronavirus deaths and more than 300 cases. what do you know about that? >> reporter: that's just off in the distance behind me in downtown los angeles. l.a. apparel was put back together by what was american apparel

the school districts particularly the touch on l.a. but they are looking to push towards a lot of the deep on the police narrative because they're seeing how many billions are thrown to policing districts at the behest of the school districts that are begging for dollars or basic things technology books that are up to date they're begging for you know these that they have around coping 19 we're talking reducing classroom sizes you can only do that if you have a space that is a bailable for you to have enough classrooms for reducing from 2535 students to 12 and many places just don't you know it's really incredible to me when you talk about the l.a. teachers and zest one of the if not the biggest teachers' union in the country and the fact that they're saying hey we're on the police the fact they introduce like hey we want to wealth tax like that that speaks volumes about where. to you know obviously one union doesn't represent everybody but the biggest union saying this is where we stand that's a pretty big statement exactly and their

the county currently has closed close to 186,000 infractions. >>> l.a. mayor eric garcetti has a message for a specific group of angelenos. >> two-thirds of the deaths are men and one-third are women. so, men, mask up. men, take responsibility and socially distance. and, men, make sure you are washing your hands. >> some data shows that men are less likely to wear masks but research suggests higher death rates for men may be due instead to factors tied to unhealthy lifestyles including more men smoke, a heavier drinkers and eat more red meat. >> come on, men, wear those masks. >> just wear the mask. please wear the mask. >>> we'll return to the courts. it's complete. next here on "today in the bay," nbc bay area paid tribute before the 2020 season in the bubble. highlights from two tight games. >>> plus, ellen degeneres promising changes. her response to some pretty controversial work place allegations. >>> and happening now for you, breaking news. hong kong postpones its highly anticipated legislative elections, invoking an emergency ordinance to delay

and also covid in l.a. county is now on track to be the second leading cause of death behind coronary heart disease. covid has killed twice as many people in the first six months here in l.a. county in 2020 than the flu has in its eight-month season both this year and last year. and it's being driven, in the case for so many states now, by young people. so the messaging is now on young people. 60% of the cases here in l.a. county, 41 and younger. if there's a silver lining to that, the new hospitalizations that they are seeing, they are seeing less of a requirement for icus and ventilators but they say they have enough capacity to handle that. if there's another spike in surge, that they will have enough beds to deal with that. as we've been saying, the sustained rate of the number of cases is just so astronomical that it bears to be seen whether or not they'll be able to shut down the state if they need to do that or if they can continue with the current rate of cases that they have right now based on the

in l.a. county, the recent batch of numbers in a single day, 4,200 cases reported in just the county, not the state. 2,100 are hospitalized. those are record numbers right now. i spoke earlier with the coo of cedar sinai medical center, one of the big hospitals in the region. they have noticed a gradual increase but there is still plenty of hospital capacity there and room to make more capacity if needed. that is good news, it's clear. l.a. officials are deeply worried, eric garcetti said l.a. has a color coded system. right now it's orange and it's very close to red. once l.a. hits red, things have to shut down more t. that means staying at home. you can only leave to go to work or essential services. we saw the governor shutting down restaurants, and salons and houses of worship, and barbershops and gyms. 80% has had those closed down. that's had a huge impact on businesses starting to reopen, that survived the first shut down, trying to get their feet on the ground to get going again. take

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charlie beck was l.a. chief then, spoke with us about the case. >> i can accept someone unable to solve a crime not solving it. i cannot accept someone covering up a crime or individual involved in a crime. i have absolutely no indication that happened here. >> reporter: nothing suggested they looked away from stephanie or road they didn't want to go down >> i think it was lack of ability, not deliberate act to exclude stephanie. >> reporter: in february of 2012, nearly 26 years to the day since sherri rasmussen's murder, stephanie lazarus would have her day in court, chance to clear her name and reputation and show that dna evidence isn't always right and that the los angeles police department had it all wrong. >>> coming up, did the lapd have it wrong >> john's still calling, and stephanie went to tell sherri, look, you guys are getting married, tell him not to call me >> we the jury find the defendant -- >> when "dateline" continues whether it's a year old or a few years old, we want to buy your car. so

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you're at 150,000 confirmed cases in l.a. county right now. at what point will you no longer be on the brink, you will actually be enacting, again, stay-at-home orders? >> sure. well, we have very strong ventilators. we still have a lot of room in our hospitals. we're 10 million people so we're bigger than almost every state in this union. when you see those numbers, we're a very large entity here in los angeles. but our positivity rates, we haven't had the level of deaths so we're following those very carefully. cases have gone up but we also have the most aggressive testing. we were the first city to offer testing to people without symptoms. i want to be more surgical. i want to go into those factors where we are seeing spread. i want to go into those communities, especially our lower income communities. african-americans are not dying in bigger numbers than their population. but now this is becoming a much more latino disease. and it's also for our low-income workers. where we need more agents, reagents, we're getting instead secret agents

giants opening in l.a. against the dodgers. almost all of the giants and dodgers taking a knee before the game wearing black lives matter patches. and mookie betts stayed kneeling for the anthem. johnny cueto allows a run, strikes out betts. clayson kershaw scratched. this score as run. 1-1 to the 7th when things went wrong. justin turner with a grounder. throws home to betts. good throw would have had him. but 2-1, l.a. solano flips it here, can't get to second. the throw to first endshe inning. 5-1, l.a. five in the inning. hernandez, the hitting hero. that is crushrd. a bomb to left. dodgers win 8-1. >> i just didn't think we executed all that well. and the dodgers made a couple of really good plays in particular mookie betts' jump on the ground ball to solano. we watched that play several times after the game. that was a really pivotal run. any time you give up the lead in that situation, it puts the dodgers at a pretty significant advantage. >>> one other game today, the yankees and washington nationals. dr. fauci with the