Bit as we get into the afternoon. Back again it comes for your thursday morning and then mixing out again only to return for friday night theres little other wrinkle happening in the mountains, it looks like by thursday well get into later. Bay Area Temperatures we have the 60s and upper 50s for the most part you can see get 62 64 conquered 58 going on for livermore and for comparison sake, were actually a little ahead of the ball game than we were this time from yesterday in some cases pretty advanced 9 degrees ahead in about 03 San Francisco to for open in a word and other locations are about a degree or so ahead look at the breakdown for today we do have that morning fog will take care of us until at least the mid Morning Hours opening up the skies almost all of the bay except along the coast by noon easily 75 were looking at 11 oclock, however again the 90s are coming in some spots in the far inland reaches will be having that in your 4 zone forecast later rob. Sounds good thing today were having to shut down businesses again was a gut punch for many owners who have been working hard to prepare for reopening that just wont be happening. Kron fours Ella Sogomonian talk with one salon owner and has her story. Its just utterly devastating to our salons. More than 600,000 licensed cosmetologists and 53,000 hair salons across the state. Are now out of work again most of who have only recently reopened and all of whom have purchase new equipment like the owner of citrus salon in downtown martinez. Who says that her life has revolved around making the salon a safe place to be shes invested money into remodeling for distancing plexiglas and a touchless checkout system theyve only been able to use since midjune yeah its hard to understand like i want to believe that. Its not going to was the first time now that we enter this before you know to keep an eye on the numbers what benchmark it in our community for us to be able to you know kind of see a light at the end of the tunnel these Business Owners have been trying to keep up with the state and local orders and say that its had an emotional and financial toll. First there were the initial layoffs and then navigating of the ppp loans and. Short lived reopenings with strict guidelines to do their best to keep things sanitary and now more furloughs. When we didnt have money because weve already been down for 2 and a half 3 up to 4 months for nail and skin care professionals, we still in best it. The Legal Counsel for the professional Beauty Federation of california says it can move operations out doors because the state board at least in their interpretation of the law requires cosmetologists to be inside a licensed establishment. They also believe that house calls are illegal with the only exception being 4 people called shut ins who cant get out of their homes for kron 4 news, im Ella Sogomonian. Well to the east bay now the sun valley mall in concord is now offering Curbside Service for customers shopping with certain stores. Almost closed again because of the governors last announcement. The malls website explains the process for Curbside Pickup which stores are participating in where you can pick up your items. Well families struggling to pay rent in Contra Costa County will not have to worry about evictions or rent increases through the end of september. The Contra Costa County board of supervisors voted to extend moratoriums on evictions and rent increases due to the pandemic the ban on late fees and grace periods to pay pastor rent. Now last through january 31st 2021. New details about what school will look like for students in San Francisco, public schools, this fall the San Francisco unified School School district recommended beginning the school year with Distance Learning. Kron fours taylors sacking explains. San francisco unified School District is moving forward with starting the school year at home at the district zoom meeting on tuesday. Superintendent Vincent Matthews recommended schools begin on august 17th with Distance Learning. The plan is to eventually move towards a phased in return starting midoctober at the earliest the earliest it would be a big south. So i want people to get a return starts 2 weeks history. We said we that should it in person. School for small groups and we will on the 28th. We will come back to what that looks like and then we will we really believes that there should be a gradual high return what science and data suggest safe to do so the Distance Learning recommendation comes after many town halls with Staff Students and parents assessing the current behavior of the pandemic in San Francisco, the school board also took many constraints into consideration like social distancing requirements, the word to bring students back clearly we would not be able to do that so we we basically need another half of district. But for the nearly 54,000 students across 133 schools in the district distancelearning wont be easy some of the concerns are centered around consistency and instructions for Students Learning at different paces. Other big challenges include access and connectivity for all students we need to make sure that theres access to that technology and connectivity for families and staff well it seems most parents and staff on the call were on board with Distance Learning in the fall i also am unsure about them being contagious or not i dont have enough information so i i dont support returning. Baptist others voiced opposition warning students to return to their classrooms more details on the fall plan in a full report will go to the board at its next meeting on july 28th. And San Francisco Taylor Bisacky kron 4 news. The San Francisco or excuse me the san leandro unified School District voted to start the school year with Distance Learning these are some just some of the bay area School District that well go virtual take a look at your screen they include berkeley unified School District. The oakland unified School District, the west contra costa unified School District. The Brentwood Union elementary School District and mount diablo unified School District. And our kids like all of need to be able to and the health home in order to develop and brown, they need to be safe. Teachers and Community Members held a Community Car caravan and berkeley yesterday there it is right there they are demanding that no schools reopen until its safe for children to go the berkeley unified School District is recommending to start the fall semester with Distance Learning in august. Well heres a breakdown of the cases and deaths right here in the bay area check him out on your screen there over 35,000 cases and over 650 deaths and were seeing the most cases in Alameda County with over 8300 infections. The virus has been deadliest in Santa Clara County which has 170 deaths we have a full breakdown of the cases we have a listed by city and county you can always find it on our website just head over to kron 4 dot com. The covid cases rise in california, the demand for testing is also going up state Health Leaders rolled out new testing guidelines prioritizing who gets tested and when this also includes guidance for labs on which specimens to process first so the priorities are split into tears with hospitalized covid19 symptoms patients first, and those with known exposure to the virus. Now this is followed by those with symptoms or those working in congregate care facilities like hospitals, Nursing Homes and prisons and then those who work in other Industries Like retail manufacturing Food Service Transportation education, all of this is to just try and meet the high demand for testing and the state also hopes to expand testing to the offices of Health Care Providers all across california. Our response not only to focus on. Taking care of patients who present with symptoms in our care Delivery System but also to understand the patterns of transmission. Well Health Officials say that the state is now averaging more than a 105,000 covid19 deaths death test that is a day. Well the Berkeley City Council met last night to discuss removing Police Officers from and forcing traffic stops a proposal would create a new department of transportation that will handle incidents, including broken tail lights and parking tickets city leaders behind the change say theyre trying to prevent minor traffic violations from escalating into more serious encounters. Now if the plan is approved berkeley will become the first city in the country to make this change. To the north and now the little city leaders are learning the results of a study commissioned on the Police Departments use of force. The 70 page report outlines 45 recommendations for the department which include a stricter use of body cameras creating a family liaison for victims families during officer involved shootings and releasing Video Evidence as quickly as possible. The study found that many of the departments problems trace back to the labels bankruptcy back in 2008. The findings come on the heels of the deadly shooting of sean monterrosa. Commissioning people to investigate force. But we just had received use of force in the way theyve handled that is pretty telling in regards to the with the status quo is continues to be able to live ph really doesnt get to the core problems that a lot of off or because solutions for the historic problems we have here. Kron 4 did reach out to Police Officers association for comment and havent heard back this morning. The California Department of justice is also doing a comprehensive review, other departments use of deadly force policies. Kron 4 is hosting a live town hall this is happening tonight its with Police Officers from all across the bay area. Well discuss the changes. The Police Departments are making after the nationwide calls for Police Reforms and also how officers are working to regain the trust of their communities and we love you to join in you can join the conversation by submitting a video question for the police chase you have to head over to our website. He submitted at kron 4 dot com keep in mind that the town hall will air tonight at 09 00pm so make sure you tune in. 4 morning news as covid19 hospitalizations surge across the state. Area hospitals are working to prepare for any upticks in hospitalizations well take a look at their preparations. President trump to to one ad on dhaka and says he now wants to do an executive order to make it law im joe khaleel here in washington, how that changes congresss calculus on protections for dreamers. And also after the break before heading out of the house make sure you grab a mask, the head of the cdc is calling for all americans to cover up. Welcome back everyone the time is for 14 good morning and thanks for staying with us lets get an update on your hump day forecast we have days far as standing by day. A good morning robin good morning, everybody jumping into sfo real quickly here we have no delays being reported there its a pretty good shot and view that we have going on, but there is still some fog to make note of yours will continue to monitor that see a for conditions do worse than most temperatures now pretty much of a 50s 60s mixture when the cool spots we can find a look in here on the fly, 54 santa rosas the cool spot. Contrast with 62 antioch 60 going on for concord by the way up the Contra Costa County little bit of a warmup is expected as we start to get into the weekend. Thats well see some of the warmest numbers in a couple of days but before we get there somewhat milder warm as we finish off this week, it looks like speaking of the fog. Theres the clear out you can see for the afternoon kind of lingering a little bit at the beaches, though however, so that may be a little problematic going out further. So at the satellite picture really doesnt show much anything set that low level moisture can see what the coast i want to kind of move things around here you see the Desert Southwest and all that action going on there well thats a little hint of the monsoon the we have going on kind of circle us you know, im talking about that there. Buildup, heres the monsoon in some of this is expected to drift up to the sierra little bit later on maybe by thursday, not real real impressive at all, but just a little bit kind of entering into the forecast to touch we can see this on future cast for so first things first our fog that mixes out boom gone, were into a pretty much of a mostly sunny day for most of the bail though, again areas like San Francisco in the coast. Im a little slower clearing and does return again for tonight there are floods the bay both monterey and San Francisco mixes out again but look at the mountains in the sierra there you see the fire up some showers so we may have some showers perhaps buildup of elevated humidity levels by thursday because of some of that monsoon coming in from the Desert Southwest, just a wink of if you will and because were getting inland. Heating. We are getting that on shore flow that is producing all of this fog there you can see some of the projections we have midafternoon going on here and it looks like it linger still pretty late tonight through the overnight into thursday morning around solano county, particularly and that helps keep the fog. Well inland as well so were fighting the morning fog mostly sunny afternoon, warm rest of the week is still the morning fog clouds and so forth mostly sunny for the afternoon and warm inland will be brushing near about 90 therefore this weekend theres a minor warm up as we get to some lower to middle 90s well inland again returning so for today noting that morning fog 67, San Francisco, 74 for oakland, 85 check in for san jose across the wider bay temperatures coming like this again some lower 90s in the far east bay reaches 89 for concord up to the north bay we got a mixture some 70s 80s, although the chilly spots 66 are the cooler spot, maybe we can say down the santa clara valley, lots of 80s 85 for san jose and 67 against San Francisco well be checking in all of this of course in your 4 zone forecast coming up a little later on march party excuse me robin marty here we just cant seem to get hes going make a surprise appearance at 5 oclock haha. Over to the bay bridge toll plaza were checking the drive into San Francisco looking good right. Its a nice steady flow of traffic and we always like we can just start off hot spot free. So if you have to use the bay bridge rolling west on 80 to San Francisco, nothing to stress out about its under 10 minutes from the maze off to fremont street. Lets take a peek at some other bridges 92 gets the award for the busiest bridge. Yeah, lots of tail lights here on the right side westbound leaving hayward over to the peninsula but thats completely normal. No crashes no stalls just a little bit of crowding on the flat section overall its been nice a quick trip heading to the peninsula. Well take a peek at more purges coming up a little bit later. The u. S. Is now approaching 3 and a half million trona virus cases this is a live case tracker from John Hopkins University check it out of your screen. The worst spikes are happening across the south and southwest Health Experts are concerned about how this will impact the Upcoming School year John Lawrence reports on what you can do to stop the spread. The centers for Disease Control and prevention makes it plain. Americans should wear a mask while in public face coverings of the key you know if you really look at it. The date is really clear they work. And were not defenseless against this virus. Cdc director doctor Robert Redfield says masks will be a main factor in the reopening of schools face coverings in a symbol, but theyre actually. Very important preventive intervention they can really block. Liz fires, although cases continue to rise across the nation and some states have postponed or rolled back reopening plans. There is a ray of good news a phase one study on the covid19 vaccine looks positive so far according to its maker the big question that we have to answer that really wants the answer to. Is does that mean people will then be protected if they take this vaccine. And we dont know the answer to that doctor Anthony Fauci a member of the White House Coronavirus task force. So is no vaccine is 100 effective. But it could help get the crisis under control i think as we get into. The year of 2021. The companies were involved in making the vaccines. Promise that well have many doses to the tune of a couple a 100 million im John Lawrence reporting. And mexico are extending restrictions on their borders with the u. S. This will last for at least another month. Mexico officials announced non essential travel will be restricted until august 21st canadian officials are expected to announce the same thing later on this week borders with both countries have been closed since march. That was only a few weeks ago that the trump administrations lawsuit to end dhaka made it to the supreme court. Well now the president says he supports dhaka and wants to make it law but some lawmakers are skeptical joe khaleel reports. Do a big executive order and im going to make dock supported President Trump reversed his opposition to dhaka president obamas executive order that a lot of immigrants who arrived illegally in the u. S. As children to remain in the country President Trump said friday his order would make dhaka law and would go further than the Obama Administration were going to have a road to citizenship i think the president is just smoke here california congresswoman zoe lofgren says shes doubtful the white house will follow through and she says any executive order would only be a temporary solution or you can do is what president obama did. Which is to and forsman air and the way for congress to the law for an says if republicans are serious now about protecting dreamers they could support the dream act which the house passed last year. Didnt take it up. And send it to the president some republicans have already broken with the president senator ted cruz tweeted its a mistake to quote illegally expand amnesty if youre in this country illegally that you need to go back to when she came in. And in go through the process and Georgia Republican buddy carter says hes against full citizenship for dreamers but may be willing to work on dhaka the devils in the details. So i like the first democrat jimmy gomez says any dhaka deal from congress or through executive order must include a path to citizenship these kids are here. And theyre under american through and through except on paper in washington, im joe khaleel. Im Morgan Wright in washington. Targeted direct payments could be coming to americans and the next covid relief package. How about a little trip outside shall we off to the golden gate we go traffic looks good here in both directions here temperatures right now in sausalito cloudy. And 56 degrees well be right back. Welcome back everyone the Senate Returns to the capital next Weekend Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell has promised to get to work on the next round of cover belief. Republicans are suggesting that there may be a second round of direct payments, but this time. They might be a little more targeted toward lower income americans washington correspondent Morgan Wright explains. We need to make sure that those people who are hardest hit. I get the relief they need to weather the storm but the coronavirus far from being contained senators Chris Van Hollen and Richard Blumenthal say americans need new targeted direct payments to stave off economic fallout, somebody said work and doing fine and pay their theres no reason they should be getting a payment but people who are hurting because of this should be getting the relief they need stimulus payments are necessary for families that. Still struggling to put food out and then holland says time is of the essence as key protections from previous bills like eviction protection and Unemployment Benefits are slated to expire at the end of july we still have 20 million americans out of work you could see just takes one action notes, im going out so. All of those issues need to be dealt with. As negotiations continue for the next covid package, new direct payments appear to be a source for Common Ground secretary of commerce wilbur ross says the president supports more stimulus is some interest in doing it through a payroll tax cut. There is other interest in writing checks directly to a whole variety of forms which it could take Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has said he wants new payments to go toward those making less than 40,000 per year reporting in washington, im Morgan Wright. Still ahead on the kron 4 morning news, a new hope for the oakland zoo, how Alameda County leaders are stepping up to help those who opened its doors. Despite the latest shutdown order. Welcome back everyone is coming 19 spreads across the state both hospitalizations and icu admissions are up. The governor hopes that the rollback of reopening emphasis on wearing mask and social distancing will slow the spread kron fours dan kerman has a look at how hospitals are preparing for a possible surge. Ucsf Medical Center they have 29 covid19 patients, the highest number yet since the pandemic began and 15 or in the icu with 8 on ventilators thats a cover General Hospital hospitalizations are also increasing with just over a quarter of all i see you in acute care beds still available. John muir health is also seeing an uptick in covid hospitalizations but still has capacity for covid19 patients are prepared for the worst understand what well see is probably not the and try to find that balance what we need without having to learn that what we can offer to issues of it are doctor nick mica says medical director
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