The doctor said bottom line is the school year is looking different but kids still need the system failed californians. Supplies and that is why stake at Heart CommunityService Began we apologize. You deserve better. The governor demands better of the pack aback campaign. Us and were committed to doing the san jose event gives free better. The governor has directed a full backpacks to south bay students in need. Investigation of what happened this year close to 4,000 and we will hold people families are signed up to pick out a school bag full of accountable. Dr. Galley said it will take supplies. The goal is to raise 40,000 for a few days to clear the backlog. The kids and as of now the organization has raised just once that happens Health Leaders will unfreeze the state watch over 37,000 so theyre close. List which could give bay area the event continues on monday, tuesday and wednesday. Counties some hope of getting they appreciate your donations. Back into compliance soon and just visit the sacred heart applying to reopen some shutdown Community Service website. Well this brings a lot of smiles and curiosity to people. Businesses. A grim milestone. Spacex had another successful more than 10,000, how many launch. This morning the fallon 9 rocket people have died in california lifted off from the kennedy from covid19. We passed that benchmark last space center in florida, it was overnight just after 1 00 a. M. Night. Only new york and new jersey it was carrying 57 star link have more deaths than california. Summer vacation is coming to satellites. An end. The satellites will be used to many Students Start School next help provide Internet Services monday. Around the world. Distance learning is our new this is part of an ongoing reality and teachers are mission to launch thousands of concerned. The satellites into orbit over a lot of their anxiety comes from the technical issues. The next few years. That is amazing to watch. Jessica aguirre rejoins us with it never gets old. A look at what is happening beginning next week, jess. For sure. Super cool. Out of this world. Lets get a check of the it is a brave new world with forecast. And a lot of sunshine where jeff is at. Remote learning and not all teachers say they may be brave hi, jeff. Hey, you guys. Enough to handle not only im immersed in the elements. Teaching the kids but all of the hi to chase that sun to get us technical stuff that they have one of the best shots at least to go with it. Theyre worried theyre spending at this hour. Well talk more about that more times working with weekend forecast and the heat coming up in about seven computers and fixing tech issues than actually teaching. Minutes. Im really concerned about theyre connecting thousands of kids via video. And theyre having fun. Attendance, because im worried that a lot of my incoming while learning. Im consumer investigator chris freshman either dont know about chmura and we want to show you where to meet me, how to access the brain child of some berkeley my google classroom, or the kids business students. Thats next. Dont have the technology to do so. And they have to meet the teacher for the first time on monday via the computer. Now the district started loaning out chrome books and wifi hot spots to students who need them. Part of oakland united undivided, the district said it will give needy students brandnew computers to keep. While the district is working to solve that problem, there is another one that popped up. Sind midmarch they have handed out 4 million meals to hungry families but now a new government rule will prevent it from handing out meals at charter or private schools. Now the district is figuring out how to feed families which is a top priority. If youre hungry, youre not good at learning, in person or Distance Learning. And the tech issue, when we work at home, it is so much stress for us and we could understand with the teachers with the kids relying on them. Totally. Exactly. For sure. Well we want to talk about colleges. We have a new look at how colleges will operate this fall. This afternoon the state released reopening guidelines for the fall semester. Here are the highlights. Schools must establish physical distancing around campus. Including keeping desks six feet apart. They must close all nonessential spaces including lounges and game rooms and campus meals should be in the grab and go form and nonessential visitors should be limited. Also the county is on the governors watch list for more than three days, inperson classes are prohibited. And an exception would be in specialized classrooms like a lab or a Design Studio and if College Sports want to resume, all players and team members on the sidelines must wear a mask and strict regular testing protocols must be followed. There is a lot of frustration about the governors watch list. The San Mateo County official calls it unfair and potentially ineffective. The Health Officer said adding a county to that list and forcing businesses to operate outdoors with school about to start, because of a certain number of there are so many unanswered covid19 cases is a mistake. Questions. Like how do you safely reopen his issue is with the methodology. It red flags a county based on the number of cases compared to classro classrooms and let kids just be the countys population. Kids and play with their friends we do a lot of efforts to try at school . Well here in marin some to understand what the numbers educators are starting to find answers and finding them out mean. And this process, it doesnt here in the woods. Allow for any of that nuance. So who is going to go first . It is just a yay or nay, youre on the watch list, these things reporter strumming a ukulele have to close. Doctor mora is questioning if under the tree, the stuff summer the closing of gyms and salons camp is made of. And restaurants, if it stopped but this camp is a little the spread, saying the bigger different. It is an amazing opportunity problem may be private to try something new. Gatherings where people arent reporter for months these kids have been stuck learning at taking the proper precautions. Home. It was pretty annoying all of lose your license or yourly that online zoom stuff. Hood. A south bay hair salon owner is i didnt really like it. Making that choice and defying reporter teachers did what they could to make it work. County orders that demand he they got what they needed in shut down his salon. Terms of academics and then we the move comes less than two discover that is not enough. Reporter so at tara marin, a weeks after another salon, private school in mill valley, standoff, ended with a visit they embarked on a bold from police. Anoushah rasta visited the santa clara salon to find out why he experiment. To pilot the total learning decided to break the rules. Experience outside. Do they smell good . Reporter one of the owners of the salon tells me they are reporter karen has had earth not hiding fact that theyre open and working and they education. Because the best teacher is havent yet been approached by nature. Reporter they bring students any lawmaker to shut down. Out into the woods one day a it is not even about the fact week. But this camp is a preview of of, you know, like, just us what school could look like with kids learning outside every day. Being open to fight back, i want it to be known that were could you read it nice and loud so that we could hear you. Struggling out here. I have to pay rent. Reporter brandon is the reporter the Natural World is a good inspiration for coowner of the salon in santa clara and saratoga. Poetry. Brandon is keeping the i see the river is cold. Businesses open despite orders from the county to shut down. Reporter and being facetoface gives kids the i would rather get in trouble interaction theyve been and them arrest me. Missing. Kids need to connect and find a reporter he cant follow the Closure Order because hes got way to kind of be part of bills to pay. The consequence at this time something. And so far kids are quick to say will be bigger for me to lose my they like this better than regular school. Business by me filing for because when im in a classroom, it is like i feel bankruptcy and losing both of my like im in a plastic box. Businesses that my family has but when im out here i feel worked so hard to build. Reporter Santa Clara County is more than 30 counties on the great. Reporter that is a powerful way to learn. This is only part of the story. Governors covid19 watch list you see this qr code on the and the only way a hair salon bottom of your screen, scan it could stay open in those with your phones camera and do counties is if they work outside. It right now to see the full that is not the kind of service report. Jonathan bloom found out how Lindsay Bennett wants to pay schools in marin county are for. Youre paying full price and allowed to do this. Why this option may be too unsanitary space, youre in the expensive for some parents and hot sun. Reporter brandon said they what is being done to make it more affordable. Also reach the story by heading cant shampoo hair outside or to our website nbcbayarea. Com. Provide colors and that is a so much fun. And so is this. Deal breaker. We have a new bay area born Program Designed to help cure if i cant do color, cutting is not that valuable here. As a paying customer, what i kids pandemic boredom. They will think theyre having fun but connected with students expect in a hair salon is i get at stanford, berkeley, harvard the royal treatment, i get my and other top colleges. Hair washed and blow dried or it is taken off and it is free. Whatever and styled at the end. Chris chmura spoke with the reporter in the last four months brandon owed more than creators of connect in place. 50,000 in rent for his two salons and the bills keep piling reporter good evening. Those universities didnt come up with the idea. Up. Now hes just hoping the state no some undergrads did. Were going to show you their and the county dont enforce the Closure Orders and that famous secret. How they connect thousands of celebrity hair stylists step up kids simultaneously. Stick around for the four minute and speak out about keeping the industry open. Im struggling every day just rule. To survive and trying to think s something that applies to your of ways to feed my family. Next Video Conference. Were going to start our reporter in santa clara, practice. Reporter there is computer anoushah rasta, nbc bay area news. Coding. Astro physics. The sheriff of Santa Clara County is under scrutiny. A grand jury has indicted four hollywood dance and a world of subjects in between. People for what prosecutors call this is connect in place. A new series of online sessions a bribery scheme that for young people. Essentially traded concealed gun created in the covid era. Permits for political our goal is to cure the contributions to the sheriffs election campaign. The big question tonight, did sheriff laurie smith know about summer isolation and boredom as this. Shes not one of the people a result of shelter in place. Charged today. Our Investigative Unit has been reporting on this story since last year. Reporter two dreams up a way here is senior investigator to match bored middle and high stephen stock. This ten count criminal schoolers with bored college indictment includes bribery and students. They discuss important subjects conspiracy to commit bribery against the sheriffs captain, and present both side of the and a local Business Owner and webcam that are energized. Two local attorneys. It lays out an alleged scheme to such as the minecraft class. The full title is minecraft buy concealed weapons permits by introduction to Team Building contributing to the laurie smith and architecture. So it is not like playing on minecraft, it is about learning how could you apply this fun reelection. The local d. A. Said the investigation is not over and program to learning about Team Building and learning how to expected further charges against other people to be filed within construct your own building and the next weeks or months. Dig deeper there. It is no secret that in most of reporter danielles brain the bay area, concealed carry child was a flash genius in the weapons permits are hard to come spring. By summer they had already by. But according to District Attorney jeff rosen, there is a connected 150 volunteer mentors special way to get them in santa and hosts and teachers to 2200 clara county. If you were a vip or made computer campers who might not contributions to sheriff laurie otherwise ever interact with elite college students. Sheriff captain james jensen we kind of aim to provide students that opportunity to made sure your name jumps to the connect with these kids who are at incredible colleges and just front of the line. If you made a campaign ask them questions and learn from them firsthand. Donation and if captain jensen reporter with so much success so fast, we asked daniel knew you to be a vip, you got and tommia to share a secret. Special treatment and a ccw license and that is wrong. The four minute rule is genius. Reporter rosen gathered with top staff including the head of add something engaging to every the Public Integrity unit to Video Conference every four announce criminal indictments minutes. By adding little activities against Business Owner michael every four minutes into your nichols an attorneys harpaul Video Conferencing you could build engagement and keep people looking at their screens. Nahal and christopher schumb. So an ice breaker, a poll, a breakout room, something to get they settled on a 90,000 people thinking and clicking a donation in ex change for ten to button. Reporter brilliant. Remember that you video host for your next Video Conference. Something interesting every four 12 carrying concealed weapons permits. The sheriff was not indicted minutes. So what is next for connect in but rosen expects more charges to come. My concern is not whether the sheriff grants many or few ccw place . Potentially something permanent, looking ahead to fall and beyond licenses, but whether they are being granted or denied for the and perhaps well have an announcement soon. If you could like to connect, wrong reasons. Reporter for the past year head to their website at connect in place. Org and we put a link nbc bay areas Investigative Unit has been digging into the on our website bribery allegations as well. We compared campaign nbcbayarea. Com responds. Contributions with concealed have a good weekend. Carry records and we found that thank you. And that leads us to our chief donors to sheriff smiths meteorologist jeff ranieri. Janelle and jeff, we made it. Political campaigns were about 14 times more likely to get a we keep making it to friday and ccw permit than those who did weve done it again. Not contribute. Slowly but surely. I cant say that i am completely surprised. It feels so good. It is something of an open smell of barbecue here in the secret within the firearms neighborhood right now. We still have some sun out and a community. Reporter chris long tried to get a permit for months. Little bit of a breeze. He said his application just sat real comfortable evening there until he eventually was tonight. Now the big change, we are denied with no definitive reason given. I think people should be undergoing tomorrow morning it is a lot less in the way of cloud cover and will start us treated fairly and equally and it is clear that is not the case off with an enjoyable saturday under sheriff smith. Ccw licenses should not be given in exchange for campaign morning. Our fog map, most of the fog is up against the immediate donations. Coastline. Not much else across the north they should not be for sale. Reporter the sheriffs bay, east bay or south bay for office said today that captain the inland valley. Jensen had been placed on paid so rolling through tomorrow administrative leave but would morning, this will start us off with slightly warmer not comment further. D. A. Rosen said that at some temperatures. With less in the way of fog. So were going up to 63 here for point in the future the full transcript of the grand jury the south bay. Proceedings in this case could 61 in the peninsula and 64 in be released to the public. The trivalley. The coldest air near the fog in im stephen stock, nbc bay area San Francisco at 59. News. Thank you. And the north bay at 58. Late this afternoon, we should add, we heard back from now my forecast tomorrow with captain jensens attorney. Less fog does warm up another he said jensen does not have the authority to grant permits, nor three to six degrees. But i dont think it will be too did he receive anything for dangerous levels. Processing them. We reached out to the other in the south bay at 88 in san three men indicted as well but jose. Hot up in the hills, los gatos have not heard back. Up to 91. Up next, frustration is right over here for the east bay, still finding that nice settling in. The one major complaint comfortable breeze in oakland and also hayward. Restaurant employees have about that is where well have those 70s tomorrow. Customers. Then you had inland over to also theyve adjustments but are forced to stay closed. Concord, up to 93 degrees. Over to the peninsula, we get the bay area schools waiting for the green light, the thumbs up sun for the afternoon. To bring students back on the air is a little bit drier. Humidity at 41 and redwood city at 83 degrees. Campus. San francisco,dy warm it up in im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Tracking a warmer weekend. Ill show you how much hotter it the mission and embarcadero, if gets coming up in about eight youre out supporting the minutes. Restaurants, a beautiful afternoon and wind at the west at 18. And at the north bay. Up to 98 in clear lake. And the dropoff down to mill here at nbc bay area, we want to valley at 79 degrees. And weve all had a lot going on help with that conversation and help you start it on your own lately. Youre trying to spend time with interviews, suggested books outside to get a break, relieve and our series about race in the stress. Just know the pollen is moderate here and elk trees and also america. Im Marcus Washington and i invite you to join and be engaged and share what you privot, that is in the moderate learned with those you know and category. Love. Otherwise Everything Else is be a part of keeping the calmed down. Conversation going, visit San Francisco forecast up to 69 for the average tomorrow. Then we drop off into the 60s as nbcbayarea. Com race in america. We roll through next week. For the inland valleys, im not forecasting any 100s through the next seven days. Were going up to the average of 95 on sunday and then we will drop it back down to some 80s once we hit next wednesday, thursday and also on friday. Janelle, raj, everybody at home, im super thrilled to finish that sevenday forecast and deliver that forecast. Because where i am sitting right now, you cant get the whole view, im away from my house, the wifi is week and i have the laptop here keheld in the weird ang toll get the computer back home. If any of my neighbors see me. What is he doing. The weather report. Go grab from barbecue for your neighbor. Yeah. I hear lucy right behind it right now. Thanks, jeff. Thanks, jeff. Well round two just now finishing up in San Francisco. How tiger woods did and who is the guy atop the leaderboard. We have the latest from the pga championship at harding park. Stay with us. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. No mask, no service. That is the mantra of many restaurants adopting that the new normal. But are diners clear on when the mask needs to be on. San francisco restaurants say confusion over when to wear a mask is putting servers and hosts in an awkward position. Lili tan is hoping to clear up the confusion. Explain, lili. Reporter what an amazing evening to venture out and grab a bite to eat and that is what people are doing up and down the embarcadero. Half of the diners here at water we love our new home. Bar and epic steaks wearing face theres so much space. We have a guestroom now. Coverings and the other half are but, we have aunts. Not. And when we asked why, many youre slouching again, ted. Didnt know they needed to wear expired, expired. A mask while at the table. That is not accurate. Expired. Thanks, aunt bonnie. Now a San Francisco restaurant its a lot of house. I hope you can keep it clean. Group is hoping to give diners a at least geico makes bundling our home sign literally to clear up any and Car Insurance easy. Which helps us save a lot of money oh, teddy. Did you get my friend request . Confusion. It is a little confusing. Reporter if youre heading uh, ill have to check. To San Francisco for a meal this weekend, like justin and his doorbell ringing aunt jonis here for bundling made easy, go to geico. Com. Colleagues, you may see more signs up asking you to mask up. Hello . When they saw us they said, well, you guys have to wear the mask even at the table only time you could take it down is when you are eating and people do have them off when they look around. Reporter the golden gate restaurant took action creating new signs restaurants could display to clarify the order. My goal is that we tamp down the virus. We keep our workers and our patrons safe and we hope to try to make it to the other side. Reporter in a nutshell, if youre not actively putting food or drink into your mouth, your mask should remain on. Including when youre waiting to be seated, when you leave the table, and when a server approaches the table. Les take a live look at the water bar and epic steaks pete Oakland Coliseum where the as said most diners are happy to host the division rival houston comply once they know the rules. There are some that are in astros. First time they were met since the camp that just dont want to the astros were caught cheating have the mask on and we have to for sign stealing. Be a little bit more of the someone flew a small airplane police so the sign could help us to say, this is not us, this is over the area saying the houston San Francisco, this is what the asterisks as opposed to the requirement is in order for us astros. A little stab there. Well me take it look so easy. To operate. Reporter now, he said even round two of the pga finishing with the challenges Outdoor Dining has provided a lifeline up now. Golf is easy. Easy to watch on tv. It is easy when the shots are so but restaurants still need more help and that is why some beautiful. Prominent chefs and owners are the beautiful back drop, harding now asking the federal park in San Francisco, it is fun government for 120 billion to watching the espn telecast showing the scenic shots. Help independent restaurants down to business. Make it through this pandemic. Tiger woods with the birdie on live in San Francisco, lili tan, the 16th hole. Right now even par for the tournament. But hes eight shots behind the leader. And who is the leader . How tong lee. Nbc bay area. Santa clara could become the next bay area county to fine hes 8 under par for the lead. People for not wearing a mask. Hes never won on the pga tour the board of supervisors is set to vote on tuesday. But he is now your leader after if passed it would join five the second round. So should be an exciting weekend other counties who have mask of golf at harding park. Fines in place. They include san mateo, contra costa, marin, napa and sonoma. Fun to watch all weekend. Wep hope you enjoy the weekend sonoma passing its ordinance and stay health, all of you. Yesterday. So how much could it cost you if youre not wearing a mask in thanks for joining us. Have a great evening. Public . Well both in marin and napa bye. County, individual fines range from 25 to 500. In sonoma it is around 100. In contra costa and san mateo, fines start at 100 and then go up for repeat offenders. Now if Santa Clara County passes the mask fine, it could cost you up to 500. If youre a Business Owner caught not enforcing a mask rule in the workplace, you could pay even more and in most counties that fine started at about 1,000. Once the u. S. Epicenter of the pandemic, new york is now leading the way in getting kids back into class. Governor andrew cuomo gave all new york schools the green light to restart inperson instructions. So why cant california do the same . Here is jodi hernandez. Reporter Concord High School has the campus reconfigured to make it covid19 safe. Theyve spaced out desks, put in plastic protective shields, and have plenty of outdoor ventilation. They were hoping to start the fall using a hybrid model. I think this could work and i hope we could make it work. They must begin the school year, this fall, through Distance Learning. Reporter then came word from the state, schools and counties on the watch list cant bring kids back to class until cases drop and stabilize. We want to open the school. Unless it is safe to do so. Reporter but in the state of new york, once the covid19 hot spot, the infection rate has completely turned around. This morning Governor Andrew Cuomo announced schools could reopen. We are probably in the best situation in the country right now. As incredible as that is. So if anybody could open schools, we can open schools. We have many parents that really want us to get back. They didnt understand, they thought that because it is a Catholic School we dont have to follow county Health Guidelines and we do. Reporter some are clamoring to get kids back to class, most schools must wait. This school will continue to work on safety measures, learning from the missteps of schools like this one in georgia where kids packed into hallways during passing periods. Wering e going to create a hallway with this side going that direction and that direction and create pathways for students to create as much separation as we can. Reporter when the state and county give the green light, theyll be ready. In contra costa county, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. It is frustrating and challenging for the teachers, for the students and the parents. We wish every look going forward. It is quite an adjustment. Okay, the weekend is here. Lets check our forecast with jeff ranieri. And it appears to be warming up, jeff. It is going to get hot they are weekend. As everybody tries to find some time to get away from the stress, i think the weather is not going to be like extremely dangerously hot but warming up. So lets look at our Skycam Network and to the outer sunset where we have the cloud cover and 61 degrees and then down here to san jose, spectacular view from the western side of Bradley Cooper and jennifer the santa clara valley, looking out over san jose. Garner romance rumors. Where we have 79. Now we look back at where their now the big headline tomorrow is friendship began. Less in the way of fog as we relaxation techniques i start off in the morning, looking at patchy fog near san learned. And do these vacation pics francisco and the bay. And with less fog, this i think prove joey and taylor are more than friends . Will help our temperatures to go only we have the answers, straight from taylor. Hotter. 93 in concord. What is going on . We went away this weekend. 95 in antioch. 94 in livermore. But youll love seeing all san jose still stays comfortable the stars who started on soaps. At 88 and that is because of i started on General Hospital when i was 18. That bay breeze. My extended forecast shows more of these low 90s through at least tuesday. Then some 80s rolling in once we welcome to access head to wednesday, thursday and friday. Hollywood. Now i know a lot of us are traveling to check on family and make sure everybody is all right and you could see if youre going out to tahoe, this weekend low 80s, by monday thunderstorms and then dropping into 70s by tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday. Coming up in 25 minutes. Well take a look at the pollen and ill show you what is floating around in the air right now if your allergies are bothering you. Well see you shortly. Thanks, jeff. Up next, here at 6 00, relaxing the rules for conservative profiles. New details about facebook after leaked internal discussions. Have a furry friend could change your life. But this year has been especially difficult on shelters and they need our support. So weve made it easy for to you donate from the comfort of your couch. Just visit nbcbayarea. Com clear the shelters. Click on the shelter in your area, select whether youd like to adopt or donation and then follow the prompt. Adopt and donate all month long. Motorcycle riders love the open road. And geico loves helping riders get to where theyre going, so to help even more, geico is giving new and current customers a fifteen percent credit on their motorcycle policies with the geico giveback. And because were committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. The geico giveback. Helping riders focus on the road ahead. Material leak to nbc news shows facebook is sensitive to claims of a bias from the right, it is failing to act on some complaints of right wing misinformation. This week facebook took down a post from the president and his campaign saying that children are almost immune from the coronavirus. Facebook labelled that harmful covid misinformation but nbc cites internal discussions show facebook leadership has overruled employees who flag posts that arent factual. Current and former facebook workers tell nbc the company has grown hyper sensitive to conservative complaints. A week after putting Breonna Taylor on the cover of her magazine, oprah is demanding action in the case. This time with billboards. She paid up to 26 billboards across louisville kentucky, representing her age when she was shot and killed. The ads demand that the officers be arrested and charged. You may remember taylor when officers kicked down her door and opened fire after sher boyfriend started shooting at what he thought were intruders. Up next at 6 30, negotiations are stalled on a new relief bill to help out of work americans. What President TrumpJust Announced hell do if congress doesnt work it out. Plus when do we send our kids back into an actual classroom . How safe will the air be inside . We investigate. Thats next. Right now at 6 30, taking matter news his own hands. President trump said if lawmakers cant reach a deal on a new covid19 relief bill, hell do it himself. The president made that announcement just about two hours ago. He said his executive orders will defer the payroll tax, extend Unemployment Benefits until the end of the year as well. This comes as top lawmakers are deadlocked on that new covid relief bill. It would be nice to be able to do it with the democrats but theyre really just interested in one thing and that is protecting people who have not done a good job in managing city and states and nothing to do with covid, nothing or little to do. Reporter the president speaking from new jersey. On the democratic side, House Speaker nancy pelosi is trying to compromise with republicans. She said she offered to come down a trillion dollars if the republicans would come up a trillion dollars to meet at 2 trillion for the overall price tag of the relief bill. She said the republicans rejected that compromise. B. A. R. T. Is teaming up with ucsf to make sure workers an the Community Get tested for the virus. A prepopup testing site was set up at the mission b. A. R. T. Station. Part of a testing initiative, aiming to not only test b. A. R. T. Employees but more members of the latino community. An estimated 50 of positive cases in San Francisco are in the latino community. But lats only make up 15 of the population. We want to do it because if we could identify who has an active Covid Infection and assist them in quarantining, well slow the transmission and the virus impacting all of us. B. A. R. T. Employees will have access to a fast track lane at the test site which will pop again next wednesday and friday. It is confusing. The pandemic has schools everywhere struggling with Distance Learning as the school year is about to begin, the lesson plan is different from state to state and district to district. In new york, students will be allowed back in the classroom. Georgia has done that already with many districts there refusing to require face masks. In the first week in georgia, one county quarantined 65 students and staff. Districts in mississippi and louisiana are also coping with infections. This is something that weve got to get our hands around or were going to have a catastrophic situation that we cannot control. And that is the concern nationwide. Across the country, frustrated teachers and parents are expressing their anger not just at the school board and the meetings but also in various protests. When your child returns to the classroom, will the air inside be safe . Resear researchers say there are poor ventilation and that could increase covid19 risks. Here is candice wynn. Reporter teaching children outdoors is not always an option and indoors poor ventilation is something we first told you about in december. Researchers say with covid19, this invisible problem could no longer remain unseen. Eric park said he started caring about the air inside of his sons San Mateo County classroom before the pandemic. In 2018 he said the campfire filled schools with smoke and debris. Kids were complaining about nausea and vomiting. I went in with an air pollution meetir and checked the numbers at the schools and saw that it was bad. Reporter how bad . Park, who worked as a robotics engineer for nasa for 11 years said the air pollution levels in classrooms were five to ten times higher than inside of his home. I sent an email to the superintendent saying the numbers are too high and they acknowledged the problem and said, yeah, it is a known issue. Reporter uc berkeley scientists have documented underventilation for years and schools have kept the issue on back burner. Because it is an invisible issue. Reporter but with covid19 ventilation is at the forefront. In july the World Health Organization said the virus could spread through respiratory droplets and aerosols. Ventilation reduced indoor. Reporter teresa is an engineer manager with the Uc Davis Energy institution. She worked with berkeley scientists and visited a hundred classrooms across california, including the bay area. They found 85 of classrooms with new heating ventilation and a. C. Units known as hvacs were still underventilated, meaning not enough outside air was coming in. Most systems werent maintained or set up properly. It is not acceptable to send kids back to classrooms not disinfected on a daily basis so why is it acceptable to send them to classes not clear. Reporter proposition 39 allocated 2 billion to k through 12 schools for Energy Efficient projects approved by the state energy commission. Nbc bay area requested an interview with the commission numerous times but they declined safing in a statement, good Indoor Air Quality should be a given for every student. The California Energy commission collaborates to provide the necessary training and tools to the division of the state architect so their inspectors could oversee schools compliance with energy code. We have learned that there is no california statute that focuses on ventilation safety. The state required ventilation tests but schools arent part of the requirement. The state division of architects which has oversight for schools decline our request for an interview but said in an email, Facility Maintenance is up to the school districts. Districts have different capacities. So some districts who are underfunded have limited staff and reporter nancy mcgee is the superintendent of the San Mateo County office of education which oversees the school. She doesnt believe ventilation is a big issue in her district but said moving forward it may become a priority. A question parents may have now is why havent schools addressed this more effectively earlier . We did address and create a extensive pandemic plan about ten years ago. Without having that direct understanding of all of the complex impacts of the kind of pandemic were experiencing right now, i think you dont even know in advance what to prepare for. Reporter but park said schools and state leaders shouldnt have waited for this pandemic to think about making air quality a priority. It is not just when there is a fire, it is an every day issue. Reporter and a family issue. Not only is his son a student, but his wife is an eighth grade teacher. It doesnt feel safe. Reporter phil ting has in r introduced a bill to submit hvac results focusing on Energy Efficiency and not safety. Candi candice wynn, nbc bay area news. A car caravan of a different kind. The reason behind this parade of cars on the peninsula. City hon