South Asian American women to run on a Major Political partys president ial ticket. I just got the chance to speak with some of Kamala Harriss former political peers here in the bay area. About her race. First off, david, who worked with her in the city attorneys office. And as they both ran for higher offices at San Francisco city hall. E support from the Latin X Community and the more Progressive Side of the Democratic Party where he falls and he is applauding her so called San Francisco values. The recognition that our diversity is a source of strength and unity, not division. And also, the idea that we can be bold and innovative and still be economically successful. On the other side of the spectrum, republican, tom, ran against harris for the senate seat that she currently holds. He has gone head to head with her at debates and has doubts about how she will go over and swing states especially in energy policy. He thinks Vice President mike pence will be a formidable opponent. She is light on policy. She is more concerned i think about her personal ambition. That iba the bay area is planning on getting out a huge phone Banking Campaign for the ticket, hoping to ease any of those swing state concerns. Michelle . Thank you, President Trump responded to bidens pick, by slamming Kamala Harriss questioning of justice brettan thcratic primary debate. She was probably nastier than even pocahontas, to joe biden. She was very disrespectful to joe biden. It is hard to pick somebody that is that disrespectful. A photographer caught this closeupof bidens talking under harriss name, it said do the former vp needs President Trump by 10 points, in a new national poll. The survey finds biden with 51 and trump, with 41 . We will have continuing coverage of campaign 2020 right here on kpix 5 and on kpix. Com. Unified sc ftlastminute deal that allowed teachers to work from home. Back to school today, to see how things are going. Reporter as we speak, tens of thousands of kids are logging on to zoom, webex, whatever for the start of the school year within San Jose Unified School district. This is the start of the fall year unlike any other in living history. Even though there are no kids on campus, teachers still get the jitters. I am excited, anxious, is 8 am start. Reporter the students are all at once here, and not here. First day of class, and this feels a little weird. Do not have anybody in here. Definitely. It is kind of weird. For those of you just coming in, reporter the education must go on. About 30 students logged into the webex virtual classroom, and mister david wasted no time we will always open with a starter. Remix one of todays topics reporter one of todays topics, there is an accountability piece that is no longer there. This is a little weird to see nobody here. Reporter mister potter, a physics teacher, says they have got new agreement, software, and training, and how to make the online classes more engaging. When you host a meeting you try to have the students kind of leader discussion, you sort of guided. So it is not you talking for a whole hour straight. I couldnt imagine nth lihe me talk for an hour straight. Reporter an hour into the start of the school year and we found carmen and her nephew, aaron, Walking Around outside. They are trying to get help with his school issued laptop which was having problems getting email. Of course i need to be in touch with everything to do it the right way it is very important. But, well, we tried to do the best. Reporter as part of a new agreement between the union and the district, teachers have the option to work from home if they want. Mister potter said having the option is nice but teaching from campus also has advantages. The biggest thing that we have here, we have access to all of the classroom resources. Some solace that they can take if they are not alone in all of this. Teachers are feeling the same way. For everyone here around the world, we are all kind of growing up faster than we need to. Reporter in san jose, kpix 5. For the latest on what is happening in your School District , just head to kpix. Com backtoschool. To the weather now, a live look from our exclusive Salesforce Tower camera as we look west, things are starting to get hot in parts of the bay area, and meteorologist, mary, has our forecast. Mary . Warming up for sure not just today but through the end of the week. Here is a live look, with our san jose camera and you can see that sometime across the south bay, now lets show you what you can expect. Seasonal daytime highs today if not just a little bit above average for this time of year, warming up today and especially tomorrow, and by the end of the week, it will turn hot. Friday into the weekend, triple digit heat inland. The daytime highs today, 90 in concord and livermore. 84 for san jose. Franciscofush, you can see sun through clouds along the coast. Other than that we will start off the day with mimi clear skies, and then plenty of sunshine looking ahead to thursday and even warmer still, for your thursday. Here is what you can expect as we look ahead to friday, into the weekend, and early next week, triple digit heat inland. In fact, an excessive heat watch will be in effect for these bay hills and east bay interior valleys friday through the weekend into early next week, due to the dangerous heat. Back to you. Developing now, a massive manhunt after a gunman opened fire inside a hospital. It turned into a hostage situation around 5 30 am. Authorities say one man was shot in the leg, he is expected to be okay. It is unclear what motivated the shooting. Meantime, back here in the bay area, authorities have ideation and cisco man who died after the they say he stopped three people at a home in redwood city. 23yearold, cheong, entered a home on sequoia avenue yesterday and stabbed 2 women and a man. Police say one of them htd the time deputies arrived, the suspect in one of the victims have died. The other victims are still recovering today, Authorities Say cheong was a former acquaintance of one of the victims, but there is still no word yet on a motive. New at noon, Kaiser Permanente in oakland will join the later stages of a covid19 vaccine study. The phase 3 Clinical Trial will test the vaccine in 1400 volunteers, between the ages of 18 and 85. The vaccine was developed by pfizer, and the goal is to enroll up to 30,000 volunteers, and more than 120 sites around the world. Johnson johnson is outlining plans to massproduce its trial covid19 vaccine, the drugmaker says it could manufacture 1 billion doses , last month, it started early stage human safety trials, largescale trials start in october. Contra costa Health Officials say 2 new covid19 testing sites will open this week. The countys North Richmond center for health and the richmond civic center, the added capacity is aimed at helping highest risk populations including seniors, and front line workers. We are waiting to hear final details on this testing site hours. And for a full list of all the testing sites across the bay area, just head to our website, kpix. Com. Despite covid19 concerns, one of College Footballs top conferences will play this fall. The big 12 released the schedule on twitter. The season will start on september 26, the big 12 commissioner says the student athletes wanted to play and they will work to provide a safe environment, this season. 2 others, the big ten and pack 12 are sacking their fall football seasons, because of the coronavirus. One concern is a heart condition potentialled covid19 cald myocaralready developed. Meanwhile, Nursing Homes across the country are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases and their facilities. We gettg pretty closto e me numbers of new cases in Nursing Homes then we were experiencing at the highs in the spring. More than a quarter of all covid19 related deaths in the u. S. , are a link to Nursing Homes. Ofris led the ll ofas tropic island coy in a state of emergency. More than 250,000 gallons of oil, began leaking from a japanese oil tanker, after it hit a coral reef 2 weeks ago. This bill has already killed some wildlife, and is threatening endangered species. The leak has been stopped but there is concern the ship could split in 2. The Japanese Company and government has sent teams to help with the cleanup. Meantime cleanup efforts are underway in beirut. The port area resumed partial operations to secure goods, for local markets, just over a week after a devastating explosion. Hove Officials Say lebanon had flower supplies, which ped alarm, what they say parents cant afford to wait on, even during the pandemic. Those extra pandemic pounds, a lot americans are shopping for new clothes. Why that is good and bad for the apparel industry. A reminder, kpix 5 has a new app that gives you 24 seven access to cbs bay area and kpix newscasts and realtime news updates. Yo the News Conference with governor gavin is now underway, lets take a live listen. Never anticipated, never expected. In this environment with this pandemic, the challenges are more acute and more extraordinary, for millions and millions of Small Businesses, throughout this state, for that matter, all throughout the rest of the country. It is a long way of introducing an expression of deep reference , deep respect for our Small Businesses. Deep respect, deep reference for those that are working behind his counters. On entrepry selfeloyed, ny one or two employees themselves, but also the employees that also are supported by the backbone of our economy, our Small Businesses and the ecosystem. I want to talk to you, today, i want to talk more broadly to the workforce, and i want to talk more broadly to the n begia recovery, without asserting what i think is universally accepted. At least in the context of those experts that we work with, and my own subjectives beliefs. That is the most urgent economic recovery tool for the business community, the one that we need the most, is to stabilize this virus. To bend the curve of this pandemic. To do everything in our power to mitigate the spread of covid 19. That is foundational. I dont think there is fundamentally anything more important for economic future, then this fundamental fact. In addition, we recognize that anything we do in terms of economics should be inclusive. We should be focused on resiliency. And not only relating to pandemics, but the Macro Economic equities of an economy, the downs, the highs, the lows, the nature and the nature of the economy particularly an economy that is so impactedrnatiol nditionse st california. We want. I also want to lkof the future, when we talk about future proofing our economy, we are talking about some of the Macro Economic trendlines and i. T. And globalization, demographic trendlines and the like. The plumbing fundamentally, of our economy, radically shifting underneath us. That of course has been a trend line for decapa becama headline that is driven a recognition of this henge moment and a need to be more fluid, more responsive, and more resilient in our rulemaking and approaches to Economic Growth and economic security. Finish strategy also should be focused on the immediate, the nearterm obviously the focus mindful on what may take your two in the mediumterm and always on the longterm. A sustainable, not just situational mindset as it relates to Economic Growth. And economic prosperity. One of the most important actions we have taken recently, here in the state of california was the development of 100 member jobs and Economic Recovery Task force. Led by some of our nations top entrepreneurs, some of our nations most well, iconic individuals from tim cook runs apple. The frame was not only gross, it wasnt just highlighting our entrepreneurs and big business leaders, that task force is also about inclusion, and we have a big t and so it is a Remarkable Group of individuals that truly represents the diversity of our state, diversity of viewpoints and diversity of concerns and considerations as it relates to economic every. They have helped us with our sector specific guidance so that we can modify that original as we did stay at home order, put out the coral guidance, industry guidance for a safer reopening. The task force has been runtal raise tens of millions of dollars for the where the mass campaign, also providing psa advertising capacity and providing us some of the creative to advance that fundamental campaign that may be the most impactful in terms of getting our businesses back open. By mitigating the spread of this disease. We also launched a shop save, shop local campaign. That is helping to e small bu igsi and encourage peo to maintain that support through this very difficult and trying time. We also had 90 members of the 100 member task force, which is a remarkable number of people that signed on to a letter agreeing that we needed to advocate for more federal supports for federal stimulus dollars, this was around the times last year act the last care act but that letter is instrumentally pointed at jumpstarting these current negotiations between mcconnell and Speaker Pelosi and others, we are not giving up on Congress Moving forward, not just president through executive orders that Congress Moving forward to do the right thing. We also had the benefit from this task force, of five subcommittees, that have provided dozens and dozens of recommendations that we have put into play, in real time, and will be advancing over the cof xt wes, not just months. I will get to that in just a moment. Let me just talk about the stimulus support. We also had the benefit from this task force of 5 subcommittees that have provided dozens and dozens of recommendations. We will be advancing over the course of the next weeks, not just months. I ll get to that in just moment. Out soif actions we have taken to support the economy here in the state of california. Already in play, we have already moved forward to simplify a county method to reduce liabilities for most Small Businesses. I can get into the details of this but i want to get through a long list to give you a sense of the breadth, and in some cases, the depth of some of these efforts to mislead get a sense of what we are trying to achieve here as a state, and the support we are trying to provide. We also eliminated through the budget and i am very grateful for the support for this effort, illuminated the 800 minimum Franchise Tax for all new startups in the state of california. So, that Franchise Tax no longer applies for businesses that want to start here in the state of california. We also have allowed Small Businesses to defer tax payments, this we did a number of months ago, and this has been a very fruitful12months a Deferred Sales tax payments. Is a big deal. I can deeply appreciate cash flow concerns and issues being able to defer for a leader year. Being able to utilize that to pay rent, pay your employees, pay for these extraordinary expenses and burdens that have been placed on you. We also extended the sales tax deadlines, during this pandemic as well. Accordingly, we have worked to support the economy by working by supporting working families, 3. 6 million working families have already received 1 billion through our earned income tax program. I dont know another state that is providing more for working families, these are folks on the edge, these are people working hard, these are families in need, these are direct contributions in their pocket, we had a budget that just past, those dollars being distributed in realtime, over 1 billion in new tax credits. 3. 6 million working families that got the benefit of those efforts. Accordingly, we advanced over the last 24 month period, but i thought it was important to highlight, that we have advanced over 1 billion, unprecedented in californias history, for a low Income Housing tax credit. This all goes to jumpstarting our economy, jump starting Housing Production here in the state, you will see those, that we advanced and signed with incredible leadership of the legislature, a package that we are very proud of, to move Housing Production forward last year, by no stretch of the imagination, where we are ending our efforts on housing, quite the contrary. I will talk more about those efforts in a moment, but we are fully committed to doing more and better as it relates to Housing Production here in the state of california, that is foundational in terms of our economic capacity, not just our ability to recover from this pandemic but our ability to be competitive, in years to come. So that is a little bit of the highlight on what we have done to support the economy, lets talk specifically now, the work we have done to support businesses. One of the programs we are very proud of, first in the nation, a novel program, we took that entrepreneurial mindset, we try to bring it into government that entrepreneurial mindset, worked with fema, credible leadership, the regional director, we created a program to support restaurants, 8000 jobs have been supported. 5. 6 million meals now, have been served to seniors, but need to quarantine, need to isolate, that dont have other supports, that cant get meals on wheels, arent getting other meals delivered. This program not only helps our seniors, but it has helped support these restaurants that have just been pummeled by this pandemic, and the challenges of opening and reopening all related to the transmission of this disease. First in the nation, great plays delivered program is paying dividends and i am really proud of that program, proud of those partnerships and proud of that effort, particularly now that we are seeing other states replicate this model. We have waited property tax penalties for Small Businesses and we created a new Small Business loan targeting minority and women owned businesses, microloans, these are people that cant get those ppp loads, that couldnt get the sba loans, that are falling basically through the cracks, dont have commercial banking relationships, credit banking relationships and as a last resort need support. Some of that is first loss support, more access, liquidity to capital, forgive the language, it might be a little confusing but the bottom line is tens of millions of dollars, it is over 100 million but 75 million new, that we put into this place and into this space to help our Small Businesses and provide access and opportunity. Accordingly, we have also focus our efforts on supporting organic businesses, that preside or reside here in the state of california. We announced a number of weeks back, a program called safely making ca. Org. Safely making ca. Org is a platform, i encourage you to take a look at it. It encourages you to support Small Businesses, medium businesses, manufacturers, here in the state of california. Is a fact, we are still the largest manufacturing state in america. While manufacturing gets so much attention in other parts of this country, it deserves more attention here in the state of california. We worked with the Manufacturing Association to develop this program, they are incredible and they helped us conceive this new platform, hundreds and hundreds of Small Businesses procuring ppe, including in 95 masks that we are actually purchasing from a business in Santa Clara California that is reconstituting its line, a Small Business that is growing in this pandemic, developing tens of millions of masks that we are procuring. The virtual cycle of sales tax, and dollars, that flow through that cycle of engagement with the state procurement through the office of emergency services, into a county and community, creating jobs, opportunities, direct and indirect economic supports. It is exactly what we want to see more of, trust me when i say this, this is a point of deep emphasis for us but we have a new platform, we have new programs, we are not just proposing. You been watching the update, coverage continues by the way on cbsn bay area, streaming on kpix. Com, the governor says they are looking for ways to keep help to provide stimulus support. Meanwhile state leaders have found several ways and taken a number of steps to eats ease the financial burden. Live coverage of the governor right now, on cbsn bay area. That is going to do it for kpix 5, news at noon. Of course the next newscast is at 5 pm. Have a great afternoon everyone. Quinn mm. Shauna so when does eric come back . Quinn not for a while, so feel free to scream it out at the top of your lungs cause i know you must be pinching yourself. Shauna i am. Im mrs. Ridge forrester. Quinn just like me. Ohh. Who would have ever thought that our modest paths ba wo shauna not me. Quinn mm. You had a crush on ridge way back then, and now youre his wife. [ chuckles ] shauna, what is with that look . Your smile should be covering your entire face. Shauna im happy, believe me. I justi wish