People came together today in martinez for a peaceful black lives matter protest. Thanks for being with us at 9 oclock everybody. Im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis the rally and march coming after a series of hate crimes in that city martinez. Was thrust into the National Spotlight just last week when the defacing of a black lives matter mural was caught on camera tonight activists wanted their voices to be heard kron fours dan thorn was at the protest late today, he joins us live tonight in martinez with more on what happened and. Grant vicki there was a lot of anticipation that was leading up to todays demonstration businesses were boarded up streets were closed off. But as police stood by and watched what was happening protesters remained peaceful. Hundreds of people make their way down court street waving signs and chanting for racial equality, the demonstration taking place where a man and woman recently defaced a black lives matter mural thats the disgraced that were fighting
Want their voices to be heard kron fours dan thorn was at the protest late today, he joins us tonight in martinez and dan it seems like there was some tension here at this demonstration, but but no violence or anything like that. Now i am for the most part this protest was there was a lot of anticipation that was leading up to this of course possibly protesters that might get out of hand or counter protesters here that would want to clash with them, businesses here were concerned they boarded up whether that was restaurants or shops on the cops are also standing by and watching what was happening. But throughout the day we saw nothing but peace. Hundreds of people make their way down court street waving signs and chanting for racial equality, the demonstration taking place where a man and woman recently defaced a black lives matter mural thats the disgraced that were fighting against this White Supremacy and White Supremacy in a to white people and this is unfortunate that this is wher
Applies to k through 12 schools, Public Private and charter for schools that can reopen masks are required for staff and students in grades, 3 and up. And are strongly encouraged for students in second grade and younger teachers will need to be regularly tested for covid19 if 5 of the school test positive for the virus, the school must go back to Distance Learning also an entire district would need to distance learn if 25 of its schools are closed education broadly. Is absolutely about our kids but we cannot deny the fact that we have hundreds of thousands of adults that are responsible to taking care and educating our kids as well and their health has to be considered the vice chairman of the state Assembly Education Committee Republican kevin kiley released a statement condemning this move saying in part the impact of these closures will be devastating for working families academic equity and mental health. In sacramento, Ashley Zavala kron 4 news. The governors guidance does not jus
This cloud cover remains with us in much of the morning. So we do have a great start to the day for bayside in coast areas before we all get a good dose of sunshine later on as for conditions there nice and calm a slightly calmer day than what weve seen over the past few weeks with winds present at the coast but not near as breezy as some of our wind year days have been right now most temperatures are in the 50s to 60s pittsburgh. Youve been the warm spot this morning right now youre at 68. Fairfield concord napa livermore all in the low 60s. Well low 50s and timber on midfifties in San Francisco, currently by the time we work our way into the afternoon day time highs climb back into the upper 80s if not low 90s for just a few spots in the bay, 60s and 70s remaining near the coast and the bay. James all right john thank you get back to news now on the latest on the coronavirus we have 2 thirds of state see coronavirus cases climbing and that comes as the president is pushing for school
Each livermore and oakland at 60 while petaluma and nevado as well as San Francisco. Each at 55 degrees looking ahead at your afternoon day time highs eventually climb into the upper 80s for most inland spots, few 90s remain on the map which ill tell you more about what you can expect there on into the rest of the forecast back to you all right john thank you 5 oh one lets begin this morning with the very latest on the coronavirus numbers show at least 33 states now seeing case new cases rise on a week to week basis in fact the map here showing us the update. The areas in deep red, those are the numbers where weve seen cases jumped by more than 50 . From the week prior 8 states are there in red and that includes as you can see california there are us 25 other states that show a 10 to 50 increase in coronavirus cases and those have been highlighted in orange right now weve got a total of more than 3. 3 million infections in more than a 135,000 deaths across the country because of covid1