A major covid19 warning coming from doctors tonight. For those folks who are back at the office. Alameda county has a new program that will pay some people to stay home if they test positive for covid19. Hes offering to pay a lot for the best teachers in the bay area. A local investor hoping to set up a classroom in his own backyard. Chin chilled air today. Warmth is in our future. Ill have the forecast coming up. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Im not trying to break a union. All i want to do is keep my kid. Facing bash tonight over his plans to start a microschool in his backyard. The job promises potential teachers it will, quote, beat whatever they are getting paid. Microschools or pandemic pods are one solution parents are turning to with so much uncertainty heading into the new school year. Thats why all this week, abc 7 is focussing on what back to school will look like for parents, teachers and,
The bay area who wants a oneyear contract that will beat whatever they are getting paid to teach two to seven students in my backyard. Well pay whatever the best rate that person could get and maybe even a little more. Well give them benefits and days off and were all in this together. Reporter but many on twitter say that togetherness is lost in the very idea of microschooling. Peter, for one, posting, this is wrong on so many levels. It reek of racist, classism, entitlement. I understand this is a privilege i have. Im a product of the Public School system in brooklyn. Reporter he offer full scholarships for students based on merit. In an earlier interview he explains hes looking to employ someone currently out of work because of covid19 to not take away from the local school system. Longtime south bay teacher Florence Mcclure created a twitter account for the sole purpose of responding. Recently laid off, she tweeted, i am a teacher in the bay area. I am interested. Didnt have the nu
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now , we are looking live from our exclusive sales force tower. We are looking at the bay bridge on this monday morning. Good morning, everyone. It is monday, may 25. It is memorial day. A day to remember those we lost serving our country. Good morning. Good morning. Lets start things off with a check on your forecast on this monday. Lets go to mary lee. Good morning. The heat is on for sure. We are going to see temperatures climb as we had through the afternoon. Here is a live look with the Treasure Island camera. We have clear skies. We are in the 50s and 60s to start our day. A mild start and as we had through the afternoon temperatures are going to store. Your forecast is going to be sunshine in the 90s around the bay. Upper 70s to 80s and low 70s along the coast. Because of those hot temperatures, we have a heat advisory in effect for most of the bay area except the coast an immediate shoreline. I will have more on thi
Im glad youre with us. Lets get a check of our temperatures, and i think i can feel the cooldown. Yes indeed. As i said to alex yesterday, marine layer season definitely taking hold over the bay area. We have widespread low clouds once again this morning. Good morning to you all out there. Well turn partly cloudy for the afternoon but temperatures will be on the cool side, especially along the coastline and inside the bay. Outside our doors at this hour we have a little bit of fog and temperatures relatively mild. Ill have the Current Conditions and into the afternoon expect low 60s at the coast to upper 60s inland. More on what to expect today and for the rest of the weekend, coming up. Thank you. There are almost 2. 3 million cases confirmed of coronavirus worldwide. Those are the latest numbers. Almost a third of those cases are in the United States, where 37,000 people so far have died. California could reach 30,000 cases today. The virus has claimed more than 1,000 lives in the st
Restrictions here in the bay area are still very much in place, and discussions about changing that are just that, discussions. But santa cruz did give us an early look how people might react when some of those restrictions are lifted. It was a cold day and a weekday but that didnt stop some people from the bay area from heading to santa cruz after hearing beaches were no longer offlimits. Whoohoo. So excited. I just cant wait to get in the ocean. Really loving it. That excitement is something Bay Area Public Health officials will watch carefully, before considering whether to open similar waterfront s ocean beach in san francisco, pillar point har bar in san mant county or Jack London Square in london. Im told Bay Area Public Health officers are gathering input from numerous sources and want any decision to be consistent from one county to the next. Reopening beaches in part cautiously. If we see large gatherings of crowds we may need to close some or all of the parks and beaches agai