Remove furniture, desks will be in rows. Reporter a few more gradespecific rules. Elementary schools will keep students in the same groups each day and cannot mix with other classroom groups. But for middle and high school, the focus will be on maximizing social distance and requiring assigned seating so the potential spread of any new infections can be traced quickly. And all schools will train staff on distance guidelines and severely restrict campus visitors and volunteers. Now, the superintendent said today that the goal is to get kids back into the classroom. But depending on what the virus is doing, that may not be possible. And so all of the School Districts in the county have been told they need to be prepared to offer only Remote Learning if the need arises. Now, we also want to point out that we asked about sports, and the county says that so far they have not released the guidelines on how to handle school sports. Reporting live in san jose, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. And were going to see this with each and every district. All right. Thank you very much, marianne. San francisco, one of the counties that hit the brakes on reopening when cases started to climb. This week it added more than 300 new infections and because of this Health Leaders will not consider reopening any more businesses until after the Holiday Weekend at the earliest. Its not that we have anything negative about a specific business that were trying to were spreading out the activities. Health leaders also urged everyone to stay home this weekend. Late this afternoon, the city cancelled the annual fourth of July Fireworks show. Santa cruz beaches are open, but today the citys mayor made a request of anyone thinking of visiting during the fourth of july weekend, please stay home instead. Mayor Justin Cummings says if you do decide to visit, follow the rules. Santa cruz has largely managed to dodge the high number of covid cases that other bay area cities have seen, but set a new oneday record yesterday with 22 additional cases. At a minimum, were asking that if People Choose to come here that they wear masks, that they social distancing, that they, you know, use good hygiene practices, because were really trying to keep our community safe. The city also wants to remind everyone that all fireworks are banned and fines will be triple if youre caught with any kind of fireworks now through fourth of july weekend. Okay. Lets take a closer look at the surge that everyone is worried about. Want to show you this. The white line here that you see here, okay, represents the sevenday average of cases in the bay area. It is steadily climbing then drastically shoots up in just the past couple of weeks. In fact, just yesterday, the bay area added 618 new cases. Nearly 200 of those are tied to the outbreak at san quintin. The outbreaks across the state. Yesterday, this is california. The daily new count hit an alltime high. California had 8,086 new infections. You can see here, all of a sudden it just took a giant jump from previous singleday high which was actually on tuesday. When that number was 6,449. Jessica, governor newsome continues to voice his concern about the troubling rise in new cases. Today he visited a motel 6 in pittsburg to announce plans to help cities buy up hotels to house the homeless. He also addressed the surge, saying hes making plans for additional enforcement and restrictions ahead of the Holiday Weekend. If youre not going to stay home and youre not going to wear masks in public, we have to enforce and we will and we refuse to acknowledge the people that have been reaching out to you. The governor did cut the News Conference short after a group of black lives mater demonstrators started shouting and using a bullhorn. The demonstrators were calling for the defunding of Police Departments and also more permanent housing for the homeless. Some jarring comments from the chair of the ucsf medical department. He said the miracle is over in california. Our raj mathai explains and joins us with the details. Raj . Reporter yeah, were seeing it in our own community. You might even be seeing it in your own family. A lot of those same things, fighting this disease has become a political battle. Just like the flu or taking away my freedom or maybe this is an antitrump movement. Whatever you think, a local doctor says forget about it. He doesnt want to hear any of that stuff. Hes the chair at ucsf of the medical department and wellrecognized as an expert on covid19. He issued a thread of 24 tweets this week. The miracle is over. The sooner we acknowledge that, the better off well be. Thats what the doctor says. He says californias gone from a state with remarkably low spread to one where hospital beds are filling up fast. Overall, according to the doctor, the last two weeks are bleak. New cases doubled. Hospitalizations went up 43 . Heres a big one. Test positivity rates, getting tested and then positive has gone from 4. 4 to 5. 5 . Thats our local expert. On the National Level now, its a similar message. 26 states are seeing a rise in cases. Dr. Anthony fauci was among the experts today that was grilled on capitol hill. Everything from Wearing Masks to the reasons why the country is still struggling to control this outbreak. We are now having 40,000plus new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around, and so i am very concerned. Were going in the wrong direction. If you look at the curves of the new cases, so we really got to do something about that, and we need to do it quickly. Short answer to your question so is that clearly we are not in total control right now. We are going in the wrong direction, says dr. Fauci. Health experts did agree, when and if or when there is a vaccine, it should be free to everyone. Dr. Fauci is cautiouslily optimistic there will be a vaccine early next year. Jessica, back to you. Okay. Lets hope so. Thank you, raj. Surprising new information shows most people with covid19 actually have no idea how or where they got it. Thats according to new numbers released by the cdc today. Between april 25th and may 25th, researchers talked to 350 patients treated at several medical centers around the country, including at stanford. 54 of patients were unaware of recent close contact with a covid19 patient. 45 said they were likely infected by close contact with a sick family member. 34 by a work colleague. A brutal attack in San Francisco caught on camera. Video from a nearby camera shows a man jumping out of a car and attacking an 81yearold woman on the sidewalk. Tonight the search is on for the man responsible and the getaway driver. Nbc bay area in the Diamond Heights neighborhood with how residents there are reacting. Roz . Reporter it happened just behind me here and folks in this Diamond Heights neighborhood say they cant believe it actually happened and theyre afraid the attacker might come back. The stunning attack was captured on a home Video Surveillance camera and made the rounds on twitter. It shows the woman walking on 28th street headed towards diamond when a man suddenly jumps out of an suv. He attacks her, throws her to the ground, grabs her purse, hops back into the suv and takes off. Police say the victim is 81 years old. I think its disgusting. Its horrible to attack someone elder and i really cant believe that it happened here. Reporter here is a quiet residential part of San Francisco, and neighbors say its hard to fathom this happening at 4 30 in the afternoon. This is the most sleepy community in San Francisco. Nobody comes up this hill, like, ive never seen a single incident of crime. So thats really shocking, especially given the fact that she was an elderly woman. Reporter now theyre just hoping police can track the attacker down. I think people are starting to get more scared. Reporter in San Francisco, roz plater, nbc bay area news. Well, coming up, new travel restrictions overseas and here at home. What you need to know if youre planning to fly to the east coast or to europe. San franciscos archbishop performs an exorcism in golden gate park. How it ties in with the statue recently torn down by vandals. The 90degree temperatures were too much for you today in some of our inland valleys, good news, we have some cooler changes on the way. Will they last for your fourth of july weekend plans as well . Well look at that when we come right back. Starting tomorrow, europe will once again roll out the welcome mat for tourists. Just not for americans. The eu banning u. S. Travellers because of our increase in covid19 cases. Nbc bay areas at sfo with what travellers need to know. Reporter the departures board here at sfo is pretty empty. Theres only one flight to europe tonight, to munich. As for the rest of the airport, it is eerily quiet, and with todays announcement, its going to stay like this for quite some time. I dont ever think ive seen it this quiet before. Reporter today it became official, after months of lockdown, the European Union will open its borders to travellers from more than a dozen countries, but not from the united states, brazil, or russia. I think its not the right thing, actually, because the virus is really dangerous. Reporter travellers say it makes sense. To be fair to them, its really a reasonable decision because the u. S. Did the same. Reporter according to the european council, a countrys new covid19 cases must be stable or decreasing to get on their banned list. Top disease experts warn the u. S. Could see 100,000 new cases a day if we dont get a handle on the current surge. My heart completely sank. Reporter Luxury Travel firm travel darlings says its clients are opting for more secluded places like the caribbean. Traveling with strangers and small groups and bus tours, i just cant see it. Reporter sfos International Flights are already down 85 . But with this announcement, airlines understandably are going to be reluctant to add a lot of flying back. Reporter its important to note there are exceptions to the ban. Including for health workers, students, and people traveling for urgent family reasons. At sfo, lili tan, nbc bay area news. Keeping schools safe doesnt necessarily mean having cops on campus. State schools chief Tony Thurmond met today to examine the impact of officers at schools. The big question, do police make campuses safer or just increase the likelihood that students of color will be introduced to the juvenile Justice System . A researcher cited evidence of schools with police on campus are not safer and have higher rates of student expulsion. I will say that some of the departments and some of the local jurisdictions now that are keeping school policing are innovating or thinking about innovation, and i hope that we can mount some studies. A recent survey also discussed today found that when asked what students actually need, they said more counselors and support staff as opposed to police officers. Exorcisms are not common events in the Catholic Church and theyre certainly almost never public, until last saturday at golden gate park. The archdiocese of San Francisco released this video of archbishop conducting an exorcism last saturday before an empty stone block. A week prior, activists pulled down the statue of the father whose legacy cy has been under scrutiny for his treatment of the indigenous people. While there is no statue, the archbishop did detect the presence of satan. So we came together to pray the rosary and then to offer the prayer of exorcism, the Saint Michael prayer, because evil is present here. This is the activity of the evil one. Who wants to bring down the church. Who wants to bring down all christian believers. On the video, the archbishop calls the father a great hero and a defender of the indigenous people. He told his followers to do their own research adding, quote, there is a lot of ignorance of the real history. Action on the high seas. Today we learned a coast guard crew got fancy busting some alleged drug smugglers in the pacific ocean. They deployed a small aircraft and a sharp shooting Helicopter Air crew. They managed to find and intercept five boats, detain 14 suspected drug smugglers and seize over 3 tons of cocaine worth more than 100 million. All right. Lets turn things over and bring in rob mayeda. It felt a little warmer today, rob. Yeah, we got back into the 90s for many of our inland valleys. A really summertime spread of temperatures as you see on the map. Really cant be bored. 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. It did heat up inland. Youll notice around the map in San Francisco, low clouds off to the west. San francisco, technically, a little bit warmer today, 68 degrees. Warmer than the low 60s in the last couple of afternoons. Where we saw the bigger warmup was inland out toward walnut creek. Right now its dropped to 88 degrees after low 90s around livermore, dublin and the trivalley. We saw low 90s, still pretty warm at 86 degrees. Winds picking up at 16 miles an hour. So the wind is some good news. In terms of air quality tomorrow, were looking good all across the board. So for this time of year, thats a nice, pleasant thing if youre going to get outdoors just for a bit and maintain social distancing. The air quality looking pretty good. Visibility should be good as well. Except for the coast, as you know. Last few days its been blustery and cool. 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, the low clouds make a bit of a comeback from Half Moon Bay into santa cruz. Eventually well see sunshine, but a stronger sea breeze tomorrow, so as our morning begins similar to what we saw today, with numbers in the mid50s, our highs tomorrow begin to trend a little cooler. You saw morgan hill on the map in the 90s. Tomorrow, mid80s south of downtown san jose. Over toward san martin. You should see some cooler temperatures in store for tomorrow. As you head over to antioch and pittsburg, upper 80s as opposed to low 90s. You may not notice that much of a cooldown, but technically cooler tomorrow. Fremont, 78 degrees, and peninsula temperatures in the mid70s for redwood city in palo alto, Half Moon Bay cooled by the fog and allday sea breeze. San francisco trending down a little bit in the searvenday forecast. Next three days temperatures start to drop off a little bit. Numbers in the low to mid80s as the winds now arent that dry wind out of the north but a southerly breeze which will bring in some patchy low clouds over the next couple of mornings. Take a look at the West Coast View here. All the orange you see there fading away a little bit until about late friday. Breezy at times on the coast. Thats going to lead to the cooling. As we head to this upcoming weeked. You see the time stamp, fourth of july into monday. More orange and red that will lead to a warning trend and put us in temperatures that we think should be similar to today, but possibly even warmer than the temperatures we saw today. Notice the temperature trend low to mid60s for the next three days. As we head toward the weekend, San Francisco just in time for fourth of july should see numbers closer to 70 degrees and valleys that have been in the 90s today will trend cooler. Thursday, actually looks fairly mild. Look at that, low 80s for highs. As we head into the Holiday Weekend, if you have plans outdoors or in your neighborhood, if you basically like todays weather, its a sneak preview what youre going to see as we head toward the weekend. Fourth of july temperatures back in the 90s inland. Its the beauty of our bay area microclimates. The heat that comes this weekend just going to last for a couple of days. We cool down as the breeze picks up again early next week. Send it back to you. Okay. Thanks so much, rob. Up next, were talking about black lives mater. So is there room under the umbrella for other minorities . Were going to talk about that next. Stay with us. This cheeseburger is the best its about to get bester baby menutaur make it a double, yeah nice mane try my 5. 99 southwest cheddar cheeseburger combo and make it a double for a buck more. Order now with no contact delivery. Well, the big buzz word now adaes is dialogues, and having those difficult conversations. Well among those difficult conversations, is there enough room under the black lives movement, the umbrella, for minorities, for asians and hispanics among them . All sorts of minorities here. Black leaders are very concerned and very aware this can be a time they can unite other minorities. Well soon be living in a majority minority country, meaning most of the population will be minorities. Today i had the pleasure of moderating a National Town hall meeting about race relations. In part, we talked about the rush of employers looking to hire blacks. I could easily see this moment turn into a situation where we have more black elites, more latino elites get hired because everybody now wants to hire black people, including this mexican ceo right now wants to hire more black people, right . So i can totally see how theres there could be an opening for folks already in our community that have privilege to assume those positions in philanthropy, there is hiring, what about the workingclass black people, latinos, asian, pacific islanders. That has to do with the economy. Were economic beings too. Capitalism and racism, are they intertwined . Heck yes they are. They always have been. That is the very definition of capitalism. It is one of the bedrocks of the foundation. Does it always have to be that way . I dont think so. Well, what we hear in all these conversation might not be right, might not be wrong, but they are valuable. Very good perspective from our panelists. By the way, that town hall was hosted by the Asian Pacific fund in San Francisco. Also tonight, the first black ceo of a major winery. And he happens to be here in napa valley. Were going to chat with Carlton Mccoy of height sellers. Not just ceo, mccoy is also one of the three master sma we wl ask what his wine recommendations is for the upcoming july fourth weekend. Very important questions asked. Something white, crisp and cool. Yeah, for sure. Thanks so much, raj. The ghiradelli sign in San Francisco is about to be danger down, but the owners say it will be back and it will be brighter than ever. The sign is missing some of its light bulbs and the frames are starting to rust. The letters will be removed one by one over the next couple of weeks and they will be sent to a factory where the new lights and frames will be installed. The sign will be completed and unveiled in early september. Ooh, chocolate with that wine. That sounds perfect. Perfect combination. 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One trainer who doesnt want to be identified says instructors and trainers are required to wear masks at all times, but the company has one big exception for members. They can remove their masks inside the clubs when vigorously exercising and during periods of intense exercise. I wasnt surprised that it happened so quickly. Because if people are going to be given the option to not wear masks then they wont. Some employees believe more members will test positive until the chain requires everyone to wear masks inside the club at all times. Well, coming up tonight at 6 00, have you had a covid test . It is not pleasant. A swab goes deep up your nose. Cal researchers are now developing a new type of test that is far less invasive. Well have thought story for you coming up right here at 6 00. Coming up next on nightly news, the battle over masks. New pleas for President Trump to put one on, and new details about which masks protect you the most. Lester holt joins us in about one minute. And finally at 5 00, something good and something to make us smile, reflect and be inspired. Yes, from all of us here at nbc bay area, we congratulate the class of 2020 for their hard work, their success, especially during these very, very difficult times. Kudos. Tonight the coronavirus in america and the stark new warning. Dr. Anthony fauci telling congress the u. S. Could hit 100,000 cases a day. 16 states now pausing or rolling back reopenings ahead of july 4th will california announce new stayathome orders as cases explode . In texas a new single day record and what fauci said on a new testing strategy the battle over masks. Dr. Fauci and other Top Health Officials pleading with americans, put them on the new study, which Face Covering is protect you and others the best joe biden escalating attacks. His first News Conference i