Disappointment. We believe that inperson instruction even in a limited capacity is the best way to serve our students. It went on to say we are grieved by the emotional toll on our students from being unable to see their classmates and teachers facetoface. San jose decided on an all Distance Learning method until october 2. The Governors Press conference is set for noon today. Amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. Dublin Unified School District also voted last night to start the school year entirely virtual. The board approved a tentative deal with the teachers union. And oakland, berkeley, san san leandro and new haven have all said they plan to start with Distance Learning in the fall. We could learn more today about the next stem of reopening San Francisco. Jobina fortson has that at the live desk. Good morning. Yes, mayor breed and other city leaders have expressed their concerns about the rising number of cases in the city, in fact earlier this week they did announce more reopenings would b
Hot day in concord. 92degrees in concord, and we will talk about the stronger onshore flow cooling us all down, and details on that coming up in a few minutes. Happening today an update on the states effort to protect the homeless from coronavirus. Kiet do is live from pittsburgh at a motel chain slated to house hundreds of the homeless. Kiet . Reporter good morning. We are just a couple of hours away from Governor Newsom peering here in pittsburgh to update project room key. For the last three months now, homeless folks who tested positive for covid19 have been placed inside of the mostly empty hotels and motels, and the charter chatter in sacramento, putting them back on the streets would be a bad idea. At last count there were over 15,000 rooms across the state, and the state had filled 9, 400 of the rooms. The latest buzz in sac, should the state buy the motels and how tells and convert them into housing . In early april, the governor launched project room key to try to place the h
Governor gavin newsom announced the closure of state beach parking lots in Southern California and the bay area ahead of the holiday. The state of california is not mandating the closure of beaches this weekend. But we are modifying our Parking Facility operations and closing them to traffic. The parking lot of pacifica state beach was packed. Even on a gray wednesday afternoon. The governors announcement got mixed reviews. I think its frustrating because were all ready limited in what we can do. As far as Recreational Activities go. Were all getting a little stir crazy. I think its a good move. I think it will open peoples eyes to how much this second wave is actually hitting us. And hopefully, hopefully people will not get in big groups on the 4th of july. And its one less place where they can go. In pacifica closures go a step farther. Stretching from the parking lot to the sand itself. The city is closing local beaches and at their request, state beaches will also be closed. The ma
Thoughts. Are you comfortable with the idea of sending children back to school . Head to our twitter or facebook pages to weigh in. And elizabeth cook, San Francisco wont consider any additional reopenings until at least the other side of the holiday weekend. The citys hospitalization rate has jumped by nearly 50 in the past week and it is recording about 50 new cases a day. An average of 5. 8 for every 100, 000 residents. City, county Health Director says that is very near the threshold that could land San Francisco on the states watch list. We dont know whether this is going to be a onetime blip or whether this is the tip of the iceberg and were going to have rapid increase in cases and hospitalizations. It is too soon to tell. Here is some good news. San francisco hospitals are still doing okay in terms of available beds, but the doctor says that wont last if we dont stay vick lant. Veronica . Big news from the governor. He plans to pull back on the states reopening plan and will ma
Estimates all but 5 of californias 58 counties are likely eligible to start relaxing guidelines in offering in restaurant dining in the coming weeks counties have to meet the new criteria to begin doing that and reopening schools of course all of this with modifications. The new criteria czar that counties have to be stable in their covid related hospitalizations and no more than 20 covid hospitalizations in the past 2 weeks and counties also have to have fewer than 25 cases per 100,000 residents. Over the last 2 weeks or less than a percent of tests coming back positive in the last 7 days. Pretty stringent. The governor though says that june looks to be more optimistic. Expect if we hold the rate. Transmissions we hold the Positivity Rate down we continue to do justice to the hospitalization icu numbers that will be making announcements statewide not just with the regional variances that would for retail not just to be picked up but in store retail to be loosened up. In addition to sp