at a pop up testing site in berkeley. one man who had covid-19 last year remembers how it felt running nose and lost the test. off your face. yeah, and diarrhea. in there just fell already bad now with the highly transmissible omicron variants surge, the new year can feel like old times, mostly by now are really cutting back a lot and going back into lockdown for now to make sure that um, we aren't spreading it to other people. if there are signs, though, that the only concert might be reaching its peak. the numbers are suggesting that we're just about there. so i think we're gonna probably by the end of this week, maybe early next week. we'll be able to say that we've clearly crested nationwide there were about 700,000 new cases reported this week, down from last week's 1.4 million cases. in california tuesday, the positivity rate fell slightly to 21.1% with an average of 110,000 new covid cases per day. still that's higher than during past covid case surges, and dr schwartzberg says it likely won't be until february whe

mention, is a master student at uc berkeley. she just learned friday that most classes will be online for the first two weeks of the semester. but shin said some students are worried it could be extended. i think that is a really good move from the university. and it really makes us get relieved, but on the other hand is a little sad that we cannot see. our friends again at clause so far, eight schools in the university of california system have announced plans to delay in person courses as cases of the omicron variants surge. schools include uc berkeley, uc santa cruz and u. c davis. university officials say this is to mitigate the health impacts of covid-19 in email to the uc berkeley campus community said they expect many students and staff won't be able to return to campus right away. because they might be showing symptoms be isolating or need to take care of someone else. part of the letter read with covid-19 cases surging and positivity rates on the rise. it's clear we're in for a challenging january. as we navigate the oh

there are no reports of damage there and evacuation order at the berkeley morita is now lifted. that area was put under a mandatory evacuation earlier today in response to the tsunami advisory about 115 people were ordered off of their boats and off the docks. ktvu semantic. indiana has more about the caution from authorities, people living on their boats in the berkeley marina were woken up by police going boat to boat with a loudspeaker ordering them to evacuate whatever it takes. to get people. notified and to leave the area. emergency officials say the tsunamis 1 to 2 ft waves could carry enough dangerous energy to damage boats and docks, triggering the evacuation. we take we take these things seriously, and we don't want we absolutely don't want to see anyone get hurt. it's better to play it safe and make sure that there's no injuries. it might not look like much, but these strong currents going in and out of the berkeley marina are a result of the volcanic eruption near tonga. it'll come in for three or four minutes. i don't know five knots or something to five knots or so

ip berkeley seven. that refers to the seven people who have now died as a result of the collapse. seven other people were injured in that 40 ft. drop down to the street below. berkeley mayor jesse a. diggin tweeted his condolences, saying , i am saddened to hear of the passing of fifa barry, who was instrumental in advancing state legislation to make sure such tragedies never happen again. we will always honor her memory and those we lost in the june 2015 balcony collapse. barry was 27 years old. king tides cause some flooding today want to show you what it looked like in marin county because he a lot of standing water was in the roadways building a transit had to reroute some bus service around the flooded areas. and in san francisco, there was flooding along being marketed aero small crowds gathered to watch water from the bay lack over the seawall onto the sidewalk. king tides are expected to continue into tomorrow. let's bring in our chief meteorologist bill martin. now with a look at more of what w

berkeley, irish students died. and seven others were injured in the 40 ft. drop onto the street below. i'll be buried was 27 years old. coming up. gas price watchers forecast another rough year for drivers will tell you what's behind estimates and how much the average family can expect to spend. and one of football's most controversial players, walks out on his team in the middle of the game. we will have the details later on sports. and wondering what to do with all those empty boxes from your online shopping coming up in our next half hour, the program that encourages people to do more when you have xfinity, you have entertainment built in. which is kind of nice. ah, what is happening. binge-watching is in the bag, when you find all your apps, all in one place. find live sports faster just by using your voice... sports on now. touchdown irish! [cheering] that was awesome. and, the hits won't quit, with peacock premium included at no additional cost. all that entertainment built in. xfinity. a way better way to watch. the u. s and its allies quote will resp

berkeley's innovative genomics institute. we met the covid testing lab director dr petros giannakopoulos. we can process over 4000 samples a day , he says. they've seen a big increase in demand for pcr covid tests. he took us inside the i g lab, which analyzes those pcr tests that are considered the gold standard, but take more time to process than at home antigen tests. so what arrives is like literally hundreds and hundreds of samples all at once. and these machines that do all the work. they're called liquid handlers. they basically process these hundreds of samples that are on these plates, pcr or polymerase chain reaction test can detect even small amounts of the coronavirus by amplifying the samples. as many as 35 times is that one copy becomes two copies, and the two copies become four copies and four becomes eight. we have a fully automated laboratory that has robots that do all of the work. most pcr test can be analyzed within a day are average turnaround times about 24 hours. you know, most pcr test when you go to y

berkeley police say they have arrested a man they believe carried out at least three unprovoked attacks on campus. authorities described one attack at the hospice school of business where a victim was pushed from behind. causing injuries to his face. the suspect was booked on suspicion of resisting arrest and probation violation. the state attorney general announced today . he's opening a civil rights investigation into the santa clara county sheriff's office as ktvu is andre senior reports. the move comes amid multiple accusations of corruption and misconduct aimed at sheriff laurie smith. today i am launching a civil rights investigation into the santa clara county, garrett's office, california attorney general rob bonta announcing wednesday, but he's launched an investigation to determine whether the sheriff's office engaged in a pattern and practice of unconstitutional and unlawful conduct. this investigation comes amidst deeply concerning allegations relating to conditions of confinement. in the offices. jail facilities resistance to lawful oversight and other misconduct among the

john schwartzberg, an infectious disease specialist at uc berkeley, said he expects another spike in cases because of these sports gatherings. he said. the best thing to do is keep parties small. if you're going to choose to go to a party indoors with a group of friends make sure that they're all vaccinated and boosting and if possible, have guests take a rapid test before showing up? i for one, i'm not, you know, saying don't go and enjoy life or engaged with life in a meaningful way. but there's still a lot of omicron circulating even though we're definitely coming down the mountain, dr peter chen hong at ucsf said. there's still a lot of virus out there. he understands. people want to enjoy the niners success, but said it's important to take personal responsibility. as a person. you have to think about your risk and benefit and who you are, if you're immune compromise. if you are older than 65 not boost it. you just probably want to keep your covid guard up a little bit more. one way to do this is to upgrade your mask. both doctors say k n 95 are the best. then n 95 or even a surg

berkeley had some of these and then we had some as well. in the same area. same. oh i've seen method of operation one of those cases involving a 95 year old woman who was robbed while walking on a trail in berkeley. the suspects fitting a similar description. children also in the car, a diamond ring in gold necklace worn by the victim's mother taken. san ramon. police say they are working with other area agencies. to catch them there working as hard as the canada to identify who this is. and the victim in today's robbery, a 68 year old male. meantime they're urging anyone going on a walk to make sure that they don't do it alone. if they're in this city, they're also asking anyone with information on these robberies to call the police department. we live in san ramon zach sauce, ktvu fox two news and urgent search underway for someone who targeting the elderly people tonight. in the same moron area . thank you so much sack well. san jose police are searching for homicide suspect police released images and surveillance video of a car they say may be connected to a d

a dangerous and bizarre side today on interstate 80 in berkeley, more than 100 people on bicycles road onto the freeway blocking vehicle traffic . this happened just after two p.m. in the westbound lanes near university avenue. highway patrol officer happened to be nearby and rent a traffic brake to slow cars down. chp managed to escort us bicyclists off the freeway at the powell street exit. it's not much, but the average price of regular grade gasoline dropped two cents over the past three weeks. it's now at 3 39 a gallon, but industry analysts say prices at the pump can start rising again because the cost of crude oil car is going up. nationwide the highest average price for regular grade gasses right here in the bay area at 4 74 a gallon the lowest average price remains in houston at 2 79 a gallon the u. s labor department says employers added about 200,000 jobs last month, less than half of what was expected and well below the monthly average for 2021. this is happening despite unemployment numbers following in december to just under 4. ktvu tom vacar breaks down the numbers. the

traffic lights were out along claremont avenue in berkeley, and this whole foods on telegraph avenue had to throw out some of its perishable refrigerated items because of an outage that lasted hours. we found some residents running generators anxiously awaiting the pjd people to come and turn out our electricity. this is major for me. jerry lazar in rock. ridge said she lost power friday night, she said, she stays home all the time because of the pandemic. and was trying her best to keep items in her fridge from going bad. the refrigerator. i took a couple of things out of the refrigerator and shut it and threatened everyone not to open it until this is over to my food doesn't spoil. the genie is making some progress. the last report we got from them was that now a little more than 11,000 customers were without power. i just checked their website. there are scattered outages throughout the bay area, but definitely the most in the east bay in the piedmont area, reporting live in oakland. i'm elissa harrington ktvu fox. two news widespread damage because of all that wind listen. thank

berkeley has reversed course. now it will start spring semester. virtually university officials announced today that for the first two weeks, classes will be held remotely. that's january 18th through the 28th. the plan calls for return to impersonal learning on the 31st cal says instructors can teach some courses with some students in person if they choose, but that is not required. school leaders are asking everyone to be flexible and patient. stanford university, pushing back the start of undergraduate classes for the winter quarter by a week to january, 24th after close to 400 more covid cases were reported among students. since last february, nearly 300 faculty and staff of also tested positive. the university reports that students with covid or isolating some are in university designated isolation spaces, and some are in the regular assigned housing. plus is at 12 schools in oakland were canceled today after hundreds of educators staged a protest and refused to show up to work as ktvu is rob roth reports. they're calling for better covid safe

berkeley says. now many scientists are discussing whether restrictions should be gradually lifted. in the bay area. health officers say the omicron surge peaked several weeks ago and the numbers of cases and hospitalizations have dropped. california's mask mandate is set to expire on february 15th. and one group of doctors wrote an open letter to california lawmakers on change. org calling for an earlier elimination of masking mandates for children. we wanted to get kids first in line kids, our kids are the lowest risk demographic group in terms of serious covid illness, and they are currently wearing masks and subject to covid restrictions for more hours per day than any other group. doctor jean noble, an associate professor of emergency medicine at ucsf, says while they're asking for mandates to be lifted , masks are effective and should be used by individuals on a case by case basis. vaccinations are our best weapon against this disease. really now is the time to peel back the layers and get back to 2019 living, you know, get vaccinated. stay safe. and if people choose not to ge

uc berkeley political science professor henry brady says at the beginning of biden's first year he was able to get significant legislation passed, sending relief checks to families getting low 3.9% unemployment and seeing big economic growth. he got the covid relief act through last march, which is about $1.9 trillion, an extraordinary piece of legislation. then he got the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure act passed, remember. donald trump kept talking about infrastructure week and never got an infrastructure bill passed, but with the omicron variants spike in covid cases, inflation and the failure to pass voting rights bills and his build back better proposal. the president has faced criticism from progressive democrats who say his agenda isn't going far enough. and republicans who say it's going too far. biden has tried to do very, very big things and to do very, very big things. when you have 50 people in the senate is almost going to be impossible. i don't think i've over promised at all, and i'm going to case stay on this track. biden says he still plans to fight to pass bi

several bay area cities do have similar gun storage rules, including san francisco, oakland, berkeley and alameda state law already makes it illegal to store a loaded firearm where it could be accessed by a child or a person who is prohibited from owning guns. and san jose could soon be the first city in the nation to place restrictions on legal gun owners. city council members are set to vote tomorrow on a new ordinance requiring every household with a gun owner. to have liability insurance and pay an annual fee. mayor sam liccardo first introduced the proposal more than two years ago. he says the city can afford to wait for the federal government to pass stricter gun regulations. more than 200 sanders ants every single year suffered death or serious injury as a result of firearms. and we must do whatever we can within our power. to prevent another family from experiencing yet another devastating loss. the national foundation for gun rights is already threatening to file a lawsuit against the city if that ordinance is passed, california students would be required to get immunized for

but professor choi cut chowdhry, uc berkeley supply chain expert says this things are shifting right. it's not always the same problem that we're dealing with. the biggest delay right now is labor. worldwide workers are falling six. so if you don't have people like santa warehouses or truck drivers to take these things, whether the grocery hardware, clothing or other store there are many missing items, freight rates and shipping rates are up double or treat three times. sometimes frankly, it's not worth it for the retailers to get certain products. but there's plenty of food plenty of products. it's just getting it from point a to point b. keith crumble manager of his family owned village market in oakland. says the actual number and variety of food products offered called skews is down south east to have say 10. different uh, scuse now, they maybe have five. just concentrating on the better sellers. consider this pasta pesto case. there are plenty of things available, but they're also holes where no supplies are available. it doesn't mean you can't have pasta and pesto. it simply mea

berkeley's dr john schwartzberg cautioning how this virus behaves. this virus is difficult to predict in the past , and it may be still in the future, concerned about the potential for another variant to arise. very that is something far worse than delta and omicron . something that can evade are the immunity we get from a previous infection or the immunity we get from vaccines. then all bets are off, but describing that as the worst case scenario if we don't have another variant that is really problematic by the summer, we could really be a period where we're going to say, you know, we're living with this and we can realistically be much more relaxed. and both those experts stressing the fastest way for us to get to the endemic is for more people to get vaccinated. live in oakland's excess. ktvu fox two news. i think a lot of people looking forward to some lower case counts. across the country and then moving forward. all right, jack, thank you for that report. we do have an entire section of our website dedicated to pandemic related issues. you can