San jose after a major last minute change for teachers. Good evening im elizabeth cook. So how did the first day go . Here is kenny choi. Reporter the majority of teachers work from the School Classrooms and according to the Teachers Union they say the Distance Learning 2. 0 in the fall will be dramatically different. Night and day compared to the spring. For these teachers at hoover middle school, logging into a virtually empty campus was a better option. Being able to come to their classroom get some more space and club travesty to be able to do their job. Teachers choosing to work from home have to submit their decision to work from home. They can do so through the end of september. Majority of teachers were comfortable coming into their rsalsrooms but there waty experiences with covid19. Vanessa and her three children came to the park after finishing their first day of Distance Learning 2. 0. We did Scavenger Hunt on zoom even though we are not in the same classroom. That was very
Treasure island camera. As we look towards San Francisco and were starting off our day in some spots with mainly clear skies. Although low clouds and fog in oakland at 59. So in the 50s and 60s but check out santa rosa right now. Down to 49 degrees. So as we take you through your afternoon were going to see that sunshine. 72 in San Francisco. 79 in oakland and upper 80s in san jose. And upper 90s for concord. Well talk about that excessive heat watch for our inland locations starting tomorrow. Details on that coming up in a few minutes. Im anne makovec at the live news desk. And we are monitoring the ongoing repairs going on in the east bay right now. After several water main breaks causing localized flooding and we have hundreds of tht warvicei this is in both emeryville and west berkeley. It looks like east bay m. U. D. May have overpressurized the system in an area where the pipes were just too old to handle it. So the cause is still under investigation in emeryville. This is in the
We also have learned this afternoon about how the military is getting more involved in this response to the crisis. President trump says he is signing the defense production act which authorizes him to ramp up production of critical supplies such as medical equipment and protective gear for health care workers. We never had to even think in terms of these numbers but we need millions of masks and all of that will be ordered. We need respirators. Ventilators is a big thing. Reporter the pentagon is also deploying two Military Hospital ships. Hospital ships mercy and natis dicialerted oy of fieland expedition hospital to be prepared to deploy as well as needed based on direction from the commanderinchief. Reporter as Economic Impact from the pandemic also continues to grow, President Trump says he is working with congress to send checks to americans. It is moving along fast. Again, theres a great bipartisan effort going on i havent really seen before to this extent. Reporter the plan is
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