Symour breaking news to tell you about. An update on the story we brought you earlier in the hour. We learn President Trump has commuted roger stones prison sentence for stone was expected to report to prison next week to begin serving his threeyear sentence for his role in the russia investigation. Oakland Unified School District announcing minutes ago that instruction will begin next school year with virtual learning. Good evening. The school year will begin on august 10 and students will be learning and communicating with their teachers online similar to the way they did at the end of the last school year. The district says it will spend the first four weeks of the school year figuring out how to reintroduce inperson and blended learning. The transition to blended learning will depend on specific safety and we will use and prioritize inperson instruction such as for special education students and other vulnerable groups. The district has set a goal for distributing computers to every student who needs one and providing internet access. However, they do not anticipate meeting the goal by the first day of school. Worlds largest aids conference is focusing entirely on fighting covid19. Experts including doctor rick gathered online instead of here in the bay area to discuss the latest in vaccines, research and the need for masks. When it comes to the 23rd International Aids Conference and for the first time the coronavirus forced all parties online and not only that but a second historic first. The final day was dedicated to the other pandemic. We will develop the virtual platform and lets make a whole meeting of covid. Covid and the virus the causes it. Welcome to the special session. From its origin to the growing threat posed by asymptomatic younger people. California has reached over 10 which is the cutline for really Significant Community spread. The session brought together top guns from around the world including doctor felt she and dr. Birx. When it comes to a vaccine. He updated the Clinical Trials now underway. And he also disclosed how many u. S. Companies are already discussing how to ramp up and make hundreds of millions of doses and not just for americans. We have a responsibility to the entire planet. There was also a presentation on how the virus spreads. Prolonged close contact that exceeds 15 to 30 minutes seems to be important on whether you get infected. Another topic, airborne transmission that involves recirculated air and in this case it was a south korean restaurant. Air condition is thought to play major row role. The air conditioning picks up the floating droplets, the very small ones and it is able to spread it across the tables. Well a Virtual Meeting may protect against the coronavirus, experts agree we are in this together. Wearing masks and reducing indoor interactions, decreasing gatherings and indoor settings. Experts discussed mandating social distancing and masks and areas where cases are exploding and moving to only outdoor options. The top stories that 5 30 pm , the governor announcing that 8000 prisoners will be released to try to contain the covid19 outbreak at california state prisons. A move that Community Leaders have been pushing for for months and as of today there are more than 1300 inmates infected at san quentin and 100 prisoners are expected to be released. The San Francisco zoo given the green light to welcome back visitors on monday. All tickets must be prepurchased online with current members given priority to access the site first. The zoo will follow through with an approved safety plan. The city of berkeley could become the first in the country to have transportation workers and not Police Officers contact traffic stops and the idea is to have police focus only on Violent Crime and the city leaders will vote next week. Several workers at a popular east bay grocery chain have tested positive for coronavirus. Multiple workers at both berkeley bowl locations tested positive and they are being quarantined as our other workers who came in a close contact with them. Berkeley bowl is alerting customers and his deep cleaning at both stores and they do remain open a Mcdonalds Restaurant linked to 25 cases is being allowed to reopen as early as sunday but it must show that it is keeping employees and customers safe according to a court order workers at the store allegedly were discouraged from taking sick leave and were not told when their coworkers actually tested positive. District attorneys from across the state including Alameda County are teaming up to help victims of Domestic Violence and child abuse. At the beginning of the shelter in place which for us happened on march 17 of this year, we were very concerned because we were getting calls about Domestic Violence and were getting calls about child abuse and we know that every day someone is living in a house where there is violence that we wanted to have a safe place for people to go if they could get away. The United Nations estimates cases of Domestic Violence have risen 20 worldwide during the pandemic. The b may be changing and the city is considering allowing up to 90 new digital billboards. They go on private property and face freeways and some of the smaller signs would also be allowed on public lands. New billboards have been banned for decades. They will hold a Virtual Meeting on monday to get the publics input. A crash and fire forced to shut down on 580 overnight at the Altamont Pass and the fire started after midnight along the median near flynn road. The flames jumped the freeway and spread into the hills east of livermore. Firefighters closed 580 in both directions and the fire grew to more than 200 acres before they got it contained. Amazon raising questions after telling employees to delete tiktok and then walking it back. Got any spare change . The unexpected side effect of the pandemic is a shortage of coins. Some san jose restaurants are pivoting to keep on trucking and helping like cordless phones. phone ringing big button, and volumeenhanced phones. Get details on this state program. Visit right now or call during business hours. And accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. Like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. phone ringing get details on this state Program Visit right now or call during business hours. A lot of buzz and confusion today about amazon and tick tock. This afternoon amazon said emails to employees telling them to delete the popular app because of security concerns and they say was a mistake. Amazon said the tiktok policy is unchanged. Tiktok is owned by Chinese Tech Company and recently has been under scrutiny as a potential security threat. New data from Gilead Sciences shows the drunken shortly reduce the risk for coronavirus patients and the decline was 62 . The drugmaker said the data point is an important finding but requires confirmation from Clinical Trials the stock was up 2 today on the news. Overall today the markets rallied ending is shaky week. The dow rising 369 points in the nasdaq up 69 and s p was up 33. When was the last time you used a quarter . The coronavirus pandemic has caused an unexpected shortage of dung mint cut productions over staff safety concerns and on top of that the u. S. Circulation of coins slowed down but now the stores are back open, many cannot get enough coin from the banks and are asking customers for help. I just saw the sign in the door that they needed coins. Rather than take them to the bank, we brought them here. If you have large amounts of coin at home, take them to the bank and get the cash. You still have the same amount of money and we have coins to circulate out. U. S. Mint has wrapped up production and the Federal Reserve expects the shortage to ease as the economy continues to reopen coming up with gyms still closed weve always put safety first. And we always will. For people. For the future. And there has never been a summer when its mattered more. Wherever you go, summer safely. Get zero percent apr financing for up to five years on select models and exclusive lease offers. Earlier we asked you what you think about herkleys puzzle to use unarmed employees instead of Police Officers for traffic stops and here is this comment. It could and dangerously. What happens when an unarmed patrol comes across a violent, heavily armed criminal who does not want to comply . And tina says, good luck with hiring you can follow this on facebook or twitter. It is unfortunate but you wont be hearing that sound this year and that is because it has been canceled. Default tradition is known for filling city streets with sailors and spectators and typically includes the parade of ships and a flyover from the blue angels and out of concerns for social distancing, the area residents can expect a virtual experience in october and the navy says they will be back in 2021. The fair turning into a drivethrough this year. Food vendors are keeping the county fair alive by opening a drivethrough for anyone missing out on their favorite fair food funnel cakes, corndogs and cotton candy available at the Veterans Memorial auditorium parking lot. We are doing this to bring joy to the local community and we know there are tens of thousands of people that come to the fair every summer with their families to escape the realities of whatever it may be and have some fun. Even though we are not able to have the events, we are able to provide a little bit of escape and fun for the community and that is the real reason we are doing this. The drivethrough continues this weekend as well as july 17 through the 19. With gyms closed the trainers are getting creative to keep their clients fits. They set up their own gem on the glass gym on the grassy area. Trainer say more and more people are pitching in and showing up every day. I had a person say that to me the other day and they were like, im going to start coming here because before covid19 i was pain 50 a month and i can come here for free. The whole collective will bring everything and it is like a jim gym. The Group Provides sanitizer for people to wipe down the equipment that does not provide gloves or masks. The beaches are back open and michelle asks, will the upcoming heat wave bring crowds back and what will that mean for coronavirus . The hot sun and warm ocean added up to a busy day for Huntington Beach lifeguard. As we head into a scorching weekend , beach communities upanddown Orange County coast have rolled out the welcome mat. We are trying to beat the heat. Its usually 90 or 95 degrees where here at the beach and its a Beautiful Day these guys from phoenix are in heaven. This is literally 30 degrees less than what it would be at home and at home we would be outside for 30 minutes and then have to go immediately back inside this is the first july weekend wear the beaches are open and Huntington Beach staffing 65 guards because of the crowds expect did. Probably 30,000 or more that will show up. The lots are all open. People are reminded to spread out on the sand. We have a spot here close to the water and we make sure we are distanced. Everybody should wear their masks inside when they are going to the shops and on the boardwalk i see people wearing their masks but im not participating in that because i think with the breeze, i think we all should be fine pack the sunscreen and have fun with this family vacationing from cloudy washington and cannot say enough about the weather. Its amazing. I love it. The ocean is 68 degrees here at the Huntington Beach. Which is about 5 degrees above normal and lifeguards say they are expecting lots of people to swim in a warning about rip currents. Here is an out of this world site. Two astronaut share this image of a new comment at the International Space station. The comment is called neo wise and space fans are hoping they will be of the sea from the earth as well. And that is exactly what paul heggen will talk about. Binoculars will help and you may be able to see it with the naked eye if you live far away from the lights of the city but you will have to get up pretty early tomorrow morning or you may be able to see it on sunday morning but either way the best viewing before the sun comes up around 4 45 am right as the skies are starting to bright look at the northeast 10 degrees above the horizon and a closed fist above the horizon is where you should look to the northeast and you should be able to see the comment and you can look for the tail if you will be up tomorrow morning the temperatures in the 50s with good viewing conditions inland but there is going to be fog near the bay and along the coast is there always is this time of year. High temperatures, upper 90s in concord, 100 degrees for the second day in a row in fairfield but otherwise a lot of 80s 86 degrees nampa, upper 60s San Francisco but the temperature is dropping back. 60 degrees at sfo but the downtown temperature in the lower half of the 60s with low 70s on the east side of the bay mid to upper 70s on the south side and mid 80s for the Santa Clara Valley and mid and upper 90s for the trivalley and further east and solano, but still 95 degrees of Sonoma County airport. Temperatures drop off tonight and we see fog developing and spreading across the bay, not too far inland and it will not take too far for the fog to back up toward the coast with plenty of sunshine through the day and temperatures warm back up to about where we were today with a little bit of fog to start the day on sunday mainly south of the golden gate but it will dissipate even faster and most of us see abundant sunshine for the second half of the weekend or even warmer temperatures and not an overly breezy day tomorrow. Along the coast the wind might be a bit stronger so we are knocking when degree off the High Temperature around the bay and along the coast compared to today. We started off in the 50s this morning and we start off mostly in the 50s on saturday morning but warming up quickly inland. North bay, east bay or south bay in the 80s by noon and most locations into the 90s. San jose maybe upper 80s for highs. 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We are continuing to follow the breaking news out of Alameda County, oakland Unified School District answering the question that a lot of parents have been asking, when will the kids go back to school . Good evening. Lets get you right to betty yu. Reporter we are already getting pushback to this plan that was just released in the oakland Unified School District said the first day of school this year will not be filled with the kind of joy that parents and teachers traditionally look forward to because of the pandemic and we learned moments ago in the Virtual Press conference that the first day of school in oakland will be exactly one month from today and it will