KING 5 News @ 6:30 opening from 2001.Courtesy of TV Vancouver. In all, 35,639 Texans have died from COVID-19. According to her FB page, KING 5 Weekend Morning co-anchor Natasha Ryan has left the station. Competition for KING 5 includes NBC, Lifetime, CBS, IFC TV, Hallmark Channel and the other brands in the Life & Entertainment: TV Networks industry. University of Southern California. Those who want to sign up must have a U.S.-based phone carrier, verified email and phone number, and no recent Twitter rule violations. In all, 166,022 Bexar County residents have been diagnosed with the virus, while the seven-day moving average dipped to 1,459. More information can be found here. The program will start with 1,000 users and eventually expand beyond the U.S. San Francisco-based Twitter said it is trying to ensure that Birdwatch has a diverse range of perspectives and participants — an ongoing problem at Wikipedia, where many of the contributors and editors are white men. The pilot program unveiled Monday, called Birdwatch, allows a preselected group of users — for now, only in the U.S. — who sign up through Twitter. For now, these notes won’t appear directly on Twitter, but anyone in the US can view them at: https://t.co/x4X4ffaGIm (2/3), RELATED: Reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell permanently suspended by Twitter, To help weed out unhelpful or troll-created notes, for instance, Twitter plans to attach a “helpfulness score” to each one and will label helpful ones “currently rated helpful.". Prolific horror writer Stephen King is closing the book on 280-character stories about a certain former president. Experts determined there was consistent evidence these conditions increase a person's risk, regardless of age: The CDC believes symptoms may appear anywhere from two to 14 days after being exposed. “If we have more applicants than pilot slots, we will randomly admit accounts, prioritizing accounts that tend to follow and engage with different audiences and content than those of existing participants," Twitter wrote. The latest update from the Texas Education Agency showed that there have been at least 128,973 cumulative cases among staff and students across the state through January 17. 72,152 talking about this. KING 5 News at 10 is a mix of breaking news, headlines of the day, weather and sports. Cover your cough or sneeze with your arm, not your hand. Here are the latest numbers reported by Bexar and surrounding counties: More county case information is available through the Texas Department of Health Services COVID-19 dashboard. That represents the biggest single-day drop since the pandemic began and the lowest number of hospitalized patients since January 4. The number of patients in intensive care rose by three in the last 24 hours, to 397 patients, while 249 patients are on ventilators. Twitter said it wants both experts and non-experts to write Birdwatch notes. The concurrent total stands at 12,380. The fire broke out before noon in the 21200 block of International Boulevard. Stay updated with our latest information on coronavirus vaccines and local vaccine distribution with our ongoing Vaccine Tracker. Older people with underlying health conditions are most at risk. It cited Wikipedia as a site that thrives with non-expert contributions. 132 new patients were admitted in the last 24 hours. Company Website. Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet). KING 5's Evening gives you the best info on what to go, see, and do all over Seattle, Tacoma, Puget Sound, and the Pacific Northwest. The graphic below shows the number of cases since June and charts those daily case numbers along a 7-day moving average to provide a more accurate picture of the overall coronavirus case curve in our area and the direction we're trending amid the pandemic. Pete Perez, the Texas-Central Region “Inca,” or leader, of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings), and 60 of his fellow members and associates are in custody facing federal and/or state charges for their roles in a racketeering and drug distribution scheme in the Austin, San Antonio and Uvalde areas. We’re looking for people to test this out in the US –– you can add notes with helpful context to Tweets that you think are misleading. KING5.com is the official website for KING-TV, your trusted source for breaking news, weather and sports in … Notifications can be turned off anytime in the browser settings. Local news, sports, business, politics, entertainment, travel, restaurants and opinion for Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. Local News and Information for Seattle, Washington and surrounding areas. Meanwhile, Thursday saw a drastic drop in hospitalizations in the past day. ... New Day Northwest and KING 5 News … AFAIK, this was KING 5's first time using a dual anchor format on weekend mornings. The total number of novel coronavirus cases in the state since the pandemic began grew by 18,220 on Thursday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Meanwhile, state health authorities reported another 471 deaths from coronavirus complications in Texas. That total includes 14,445 new confirmed cases, 2,929 new probable cases, and 846 cases attributed to backlogged test results not yet reported (more details can be found at the top of this page). 75,899 talking about this. On Thursday, Mayor Ron Nirenberg reported an additional 1,752 new coronavirus cases in Bexar County. Nirenberg also reported 20 new coronavirus-related deaths, for a total of 2,027 in the county since the pandemic began. You can connect with KING 5 on Facebook , Twitter , YouTube and Pinterest .