SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- A strip mall in San Jose caught fire early Monday morning.
The San Jose Fire Department responded to the 2800 block of Senter Rd, they tweeted just before 4:30 a.m.
No injuries have been reported.
This story will be updated.
CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — Currently, nearly 58 percent of Americans age 12 and up are fully vaccinated, but health experts say it’s not enough to “crush the outbreak.”
With the highly contagious delta variant spreading across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has brought back guidelines recommending masks even for vaccinated Americans in areas where the spread of the virus is serious.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, says the U.S. can “expect more pain and suffering” ahead and that most new infections are among the unvaccinated.
“If you look at the acceleration of the number of cases, the seven-day average has gone up substantially. We say it over and over again, and it's the truth — we have 100 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not getting vaccinated," Fauci said Sunday on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
The CDC says Flordia has set a new record with more than 21,600 new COVID-19 cases reported Friday.
Florida’s state health department reported coronavirus cases jumped 50% last week — continuing a six-week surge —bringing numbers back to where they were in January, just before vaccines became widely available.
In Missouri, COVID-19 cases tripled in July. In California, two of San Francisco's largest hospitals say more than 250 staff members are infected with COVID-19.
Officials at San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF Medical say most of the infections are breakthrough cases of people who are fully vaccinated. The cases are among physicians, nurses, and administrative staff of the hospital’s 7,500 employees. They said nearly 100-percent of the cases were traced back to community spread.
Dr. Fauci says breakthrough infections are mostly mild or without symptoms whereas unvaccinated people are much more vulnerable and likely to get a severe case that might lead to hospitalization or even death.
Despite the current surge in cases, Dr. Fauci says we are in a better situation than we were at the beginning of the pandemic.
“I don't think we're going to see lockdowns. I think we have enough of the percentage of people in the country, not enough to crush the outbreak, but I believe enough to not allow us to get into the situation we were in last winter," Fauci said Sunday on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
However, as a result of the climbing cases and the rising threat from the delta variant, doctors say more Americans are rolling up their sleeves and getting their shots.
“That’s what desperately needs to happen if we are going to get this delta variant put back in its place because right now it’s having a pretty big party in the middle of the country," National Institutes of Health Directory Dr. Francis Collins said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.
As the end of summer nears and kids prepare to return to the classroom, the CDC has also recommended that all teachers, staff, students, and visitors wear their masks indoors at school regardless of vaccination status.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) - According to the latest data from the Tennessee Health Department, more than 92,000 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 900 people have died in Davidson County.
It's behind those numbers that doctors and nurses are struggling.
In an open letter from an ICU nurse on the front lines, Makala Kuhr dedicated her video to all of those who have died from COVID-19.
"I really thought back to everything and every death that I've seen this year, and we had nine deaths in one day, and I remember just putting people in body bags, and a lot of people in body bags. Like one a day at one point," Kuhr recalled.
Kuhr says her breaking point came one day when she lost a patient. Although the patient did not die from the virus, it made her reflect on everything and everyone around her over the past year. She decided to put her feelings into a video, focusing on how people continue to call her a "hero."
"I don't feel like a hero; I feel like I'm doing my job, and I'm not doing it very well," said Kuhr.
She remembers her time in the hospital vividly. During the beginning of the pandemic, Kuhr was a nurse in the emergency room and recalls the anxiety that came from not knowing who or what condition her next patient would be in. At one point, Kuhr remembered she and fellow nurses working for a month straight with no break, trying to keep up with the patient demand.
"It was a constant beratement of trauma, and I think a lot of us didn't realize and still don't realize how to handle it. Not even realizing that it was trauma and that we really need to deal with it," said Kuhr.
As the number of positive cases climbs, it's the faces behind the figures that represent families waiting for their loved ones to come home.
"To have them call and say 'we want you to do everything you can,' but everything you can is just something that would lead him to living a life in a nursing home, not having any quality whatsoever, is really difficult," said Kuhr describing one patient.
Now Kuhr worries another storm is brewing in the form of the delta variant, stating "people are ready to be done with COVID, but COVID is not ready to be done with us. I know a lot of nurses don't want another wave, and I know that we can't afford to because nurses are already burnt out."
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) - Rent in every part of the country is on the rise, according to a recent national rent report by Zumper.
"The dramatic rise in rent that’s come to define 2021 accelerated in July, with Zumper’s National Rent Index rising 7 percent year-over-year for one-bedroom apartments and a staggering 8.7 percent for two-bedroom apartments," according to the Zumper report.
However, many big cities that experienced significant drops in rent during the course of the pandemic are still seeing low(er) rents compared to this time last year.
The median one-bedroom rent in San Francisco is down by 2.5% compared to last month and down 15% compared to last year.
Additionally, rents in Oakland and San Jose also experiencing lower rents compared to this time last year.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (BCN) - Police are looking for a car that fled after fatally hitting a man on King Road early Sunday morning.
The collision was reported about 12:45 a.m. in the area of King and Story roads.
The man had been walking in the northbound lanes of King outside a marked crosswalk when he was hit by a vehicle that was headed northbound, police said.
The man, whose name was not released, died at the scene, police said.
The death marks the city's 14th fatal pedestrian collision of 2021.
It's a beautiful time to grow -- that's the message behind the Blk Girls Green House.
It is a west Oakland-based plant and home goods shop that also serves as a feel-good community space.
Today the shop owners, J'maica Roxanne and Kalkidan Gebreyohannes, are celebrating one year of being open and they're hosting a soulful Sunday event, complete with an evening shopping experience.
The women say they opened the shop in the midst of the pandemic as they noticed their community was in a place of pain, anger and sadness.
"We just knew that it was important for us to show up and this was our form of activism, our form of giving back and pouring into our community," explained Gebreyohannes.
The Green House is stocked with a wide variety of plants as they receive deliveries twice a week.
"We pride ourselves on having a core collection of plants that are familiar to people, but we also like to try and throw things into the mix that are a little harder to find, things that will add something beautiful to your space," said Roxanne.
Sunday's one-year anniversary event is hosted at the shop located at 1700 Center Street, Oakland. It runs from 5 pm until 9 pm.
Reservations are encouraged but they also accept walk-ins.
From the 7,000+ staff members at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG), there are 55 that are currently COVID-19 positive, as of July 31, 2021.
Of these, none of the infected staff have been hospitalized to our knowledge.
The predominant mode of infection was through community exposure. ZSFG continues to follow strict infection control measures including daily self-screening of staff, requiring masks on campus, and testing of all admitted patients.
To avoid further exposures, infected staff are in quarantine in their homes, and ZSFG has plans in place to ensure enough staff coverage.
Breakthrough cases were and still are expected. We know vaccines won’t completely prevent infections, but they are very effective at making hospitalizations and death preventable.
"The cases among hospital staff are reflective of what’s happening in the broader community as cases have been rising. We strongly encourage everyone to wear masks in indoor public settings and get vaccinated so we can stop the spread of the virus."
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