Good evening. Welcome. Im larry biel. Thank you so much for joining us. New developments tonight. Santa clara county is now getting ready for phase 2 under way tomorrow. The spotlight is on Face Coverings and how big a role they should play. What will it take to reopen schools here and across the state . Oakland is asking parents directly what they want to see. United looks to technology in the new coronavirus era. The goal, of course, to make surfaces safer and reassure reluctant travelers to fly again. And a rare look tonight inside cash creek casino. What its doing to reopen, it hopes, in june. A look at the headlines and one of them the new Public Health order starting tomorrow in santa clara county. It says w Face Covering when at any business as well as on public transit. However, as abc 7 News Reporter chris winn explains officials in san jose could take it further with stricter are regulations and enforcing this could be an issue. Reporter in the bay areas largest city the San Jose City council is expected to vote in earl l i june on a proposed ordinance that would require almost everyone to wear a Face Covering whenever theyre in public or when interacting with anyone outside their immediate household. We certainly want to make sure when your actions are sort of getting into the space of others and putting their livelihood and their health in jeopardy, thats when i think the city and any Governmental Agency needs to step in and really be very thoughtful as to how we do things. Reporter the proposal does make room for exceptions such as not having to wear a Face Covering when exercising outdoors. Children under the age of 6 as well as those unable to breathe while wearing a Face Covering or those who cant put one on themselves would be exempt. However, there are concerns about overreach. Were trying to protect one another and encourage people to wear masks. And im all for that. But i dont want is to turn out to be a big gripe session. And, you know, a big burden on our police department. Reporter San Jose Police say they dont have the capacity to enforce the entire ordinance because of limited staffing. The police chief is also concerned about the potential for 911 to be overloaded with unnecessary calls saying enforcement would impact the areas most vulnerable populations. City and county leaders arent expecting full enforcement but hope to convey wearing a Face Covering must become a social norm. Not trying to give them a citation or cite them. We wnt thant them to have the b information to keep themselves, employees, employees families and customers safe. Reporter a proposal in early june calls for a creation of a health and Business Team who would provide special training to provide basic covid19 education in the community in multiple languages. We think by having these conversation s and really educating people were going to increase compliance. Reporter building a healthier and safer bay area as it continues to debate how to do just that. In san jose, abc 7 news. Lowrisk businesses in Solano County including restaurants can officially reopen tomorrow at 6 00 a. M. With modifications. The county approved today to move further into stage 2. Vacaville, city hall is tentatively set to reopen june 1st. Summer camps can resume june 15th. Playground structures and picnic and barbecue areas remain closed. A landmark decision, the uc system is getting rid of s. A. T. And a. C. T. Requirements. The plan will be phased in over several years starting with the tests being optional next year. The goal is for the uc system to develop its own test. By 2025 new test or not, use of the s. A. T. And a. C. T. Will be fully eliminated for instate students. Guidance for outofstate students would be determined. An eye on reopening schools in the fall, School Districts are asking parents to weigh in on how that should look like. We examine the options asked to consider. As she looks at education, one of the four areas abc 7 news is committed to in the effort to build a better bay area. Reporter oakland parents are being asked if they think their child is academically ready to move up to the next grade. The nonprofit go Public Schools is just one of Many Organizations working with oakland unified on the survey. Families are going to need that information and schools are, too, plans around intervention and know wrg to allocate resources to make sure that we recover from this pandemic in the most, like, equitable just way possible. Reporter just as important for the district is knowing how parents feel about reopening schools. Here are the seven options. Continue with Distance Learning. Students start classes earlier in july. Have kids in school for half a day with some remote learning. Make inperson learning optio l optional. Have inschool instruction one day and Distance Learning the next day. District changes to yearround school to make up for lost learning. Students in certain grades will be expected to start the school year earlier. Other School Districts in california are also asking parents to weigh in. We may actually have to be very flexible with our school models. Reporter but as the superintendent of public instruction indicated today, School Districts will not have the final word on how and when they will reopen. Being informed by science, by health and safety, and experts. Well be informed by best practices of people who know. Reporter thurmond says theres to playbook for how to reopen schools given the current situation. What is certain is that any kind of social distancing in the classroom will be an unavoidable expense for School Districts throughout california. In oak lan, lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. The Largest Airline at the airport, united, is trying to convince fliers to return to the skies and its safe. United not alone but believes its standards partly developed by oaklands clorox will make a difference. David louie with an inside look. Reporter united says a majority of its fligrigts s flights arrive and depart half full. Passengers with ill be using touchless checkin kiosks starting friday and receive individual hand wipes as they board and more of them in onboard snack bags. Sneeze guards will help to protect employees. Behind the scenes employees are required to do thermal temperature checks. At the large maintenance base, theyve been busy making hand sanitizer. The biggest change is disinfecting the aircraft cabins. Its already done for all international and overnight flights. Soon, every aircraft will be electrostatic sprayed before takeoff. Move from the back to the front of the aircraft and spray or fog the entire aircraft, letting it rest for a minute or so. Its a very effective tool and has immediate effect. Reporter tray tables and the galley area also sanitized. United partners with oaklandbased clorox and the Cleveland Clinic to set its own standard for disinfecting the cabin. Our partnership with clorox and the Cleveland Clinic sets us apart and hopefully instills the confidence its not just united determining the best path to take forward but work with true experts in the field. Reporter united was criticized earlier this month when a San Francisco cardiologist tweeted a photo of a packed plane as medical volunteers returned home from treating patients in new york. Today passengers heading to chicago were switched from a smaller 737 to a larger 757 so there would be empty seats to allow for social distancing. United says this will happen more frequently along with allowing passengers to change flights if theirs is heavily booked. With covid19s impact on airlines so severe, they hope addressing hygiene will provide the lift they seek. A at at sfo, abc 7 news. San leanndro making changes to keep crowds to a minimum over memorial day weekend. Changes at chabot park. Picnic tables and parks will be closed. Leaders want the parks only to be used for exercising or walking as long as youre social distancing. Parking lots at both parks in the boat launch will be closed tomorrow through monday. Santa cruz county, beaches remain closed for the Holiday Weekend. This is a live look at our Santa Cruz Beach cam. See the waves there. Surfers are allowed to catch some of the waves in the water. No one is allowed to sit or sunbathe on the sand. The county is trying to prevent group gatherings. You can exercise on your own or walk at a social distance. Its necessary to keep doing this for the health and safety of locals and visitors. A casino is showing exactly how much covid19 is changing how they do business. Abc 7 News ReporterWayne Freedman went up to cash creek near the small town of brooks in yolo county to check it out. Reporter this is whats going to you decide you want to go gambling in a place like cash creek casino. You get your temperature checked. They open the door for you. In you go and this is just the start of the changes. For now, at least, you cant help but notice the relative quiet. There are no gamblers on this 107,000 square foot gaming floor. Just a few of the 2,400 employees still getting paid with tips and Health Benefits from a casino that has been closed for months. Heres the general manager. We could be open right now but were not. And thats because we dont think that its time yet. Reporter that will happen only after all of their covid19 modifications. Heres one change youll notice immediately in the casino. Not all these machines are on anymore. One off. One on. One off. And no chair. Thats one way of social distancing. But this, they say, is the ideal, putting those machines in a circle. Which leads to a question. Why isnt there plexiglas between these games . The more surfaces you add to the casino, the more we have clean and sanitize. Reporter slot machines, one of the biggest moneymakers and one of the biggest risks, this one has 14 buttons in front and a pull arm. Thats 15 touch points. Theyll need to be cleaned constantly. Were going to be cleaning all the time. It will be a neverending chore. Reporter table games have always been very social. This roulette table, 16 people on both sides in the old days. In the future, six. Do you like playing blackjack . Still can. But instead of being three feet apart, those tables wi s will b feet apart. Instead of having seven players, three. For three weeks the casino has been reconfiguring this floor, moving machines around, taking themay gont point. Feweres f ce go up. Not in this economy, no. Reporter bottom line, its all a gamble. Then again, we are in a casino. Cash creek has not yet said when they plan to reopen. At cash creek, Wayne Freedman, abc 7 news. Different times. Facebooks big push to work remotely, a sea change for a company that provides three meals a day in the office. The tech executive who was sleeping when Authorities Say people kidnapped then murdered him. We now know the link to those arrested in this case. And the coronavirus has been infecting and killing people of color at dispropor were getting a look at sobering new numbers that confirm coronavirus is disproportionately affecting the black community. Health is one of the four areas abc 7 is committed to in an effort to build a better bay area. As abc 7 News ReporterJulian Glover explains, scientists need to better understand how covid19 affects different members of our community before any vaccine can be found. Reporter Sutter Health, one of the Largest HealthCare Networks within the bay yeah giving me an advanced copy of a report that was fast tracked given how shocking the findings are that black patients diagnosed with covid19 are three times more likely to end up in the hospital for treatment than white patients. Bearing the brunt of the burden of this disease. Negative impacts within communities of color, in particular africanamericans. Reporter the head liline of alarming new study conducted by Sutter Health finding concerns Racial Disparities in covid19 hospitalizations. Dr. Steve lockhart is Sutter Healths chief medical officer. Africanamerican patients were almost three times more likely than white patients to be hospitalized. There was also a greater tendency for them to be admitted to the icu as well. Reporter the study pulled data from sutters two dozen hospitals and more than 100 clinics across the state focusing on more than 1,000 of their patients testing positive for covid19 since the start of the pandemic. And found more than half of all africanamerican covid19 patients had to be hospitalized for treatment versus just a fourth of white patients requiri requiring a hospital stay. Nearly three times as likely. Even more alarming, one in four black patients had to be moved to an intensive care unit for lifesaving treatment compared to one in ten white patients. Glaring disparity. Dr. Lockhart believes in part access to testing is the issue. Africanamerican patients are coming in later and sicker. So its not about necessarily who is tested but when. Reporter lockhart says outreach is critically important in the black community so patients dont wait until theyre sick to get tested. He says we need to see more asymptomatic testing if black neighborhoods like this popup testing site that now come to Antioch Baptist Church in san jose on wednesdays. He also warns that race and trust may be another issue as the states focus shifts to increase Contact Tracing in the fight against covid19. There is really little chance this will work well in our communities unless we do have these not only probably also important contact tracers. Reporter africanamericans make up just 6 of the population here in the state of california, but they make up 10 of the covid19 deaths so far. Dr. Lockhart says that Sutter Health is working to bridge the disparities and do more outreach to black and brown communities to try and improve outcomes and hopes other Health Care Networks will follow suit. Reporting in the south bay, im Julian Glover, abc 7 news. Felony charges are expected soon against four suspects who were arrested in last years kidnapping and murder of a Santa Cruz County entrepreneur. Well show you the four men. 23yearold joshua camps. 22yearold steven lindsay. And two brothers, 22yearold curtis charters and 19yearold caleb charters. Theyre accused of kidnapping tushar atray from his home in the Pleasure Point neighborhood october 1st. Sheriff jim hart says the arrests came after more than 3,000 hours of intense investigation. Ive been on this job for 32 years. I can tell you there is compelling evidence against these four people. We have the right people and now its the district attorneys offices job to take this case, to take it to the judicial system and prosecute this case te best they can. Investigators say lindsay and caleb charters worked for atray in his cannabis business. They say robbery was the motive for the crime. Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg says as many as remotelyremotely five to ten years. Facebook looks into supporting permanent remote work for its existing employees. The company will adjust salaries depending on where employees live paying less to those who work remotely from cities where the cost of living is lower. Oh, keep your sun gescreen handy. Its about to get hoo safety took to the skies in San Francisco today. Check this out. This rescuer dropping from a helicopter was part of a Training Exercise to practice rescuing a surfer at ocean beach. The National Parks service says with warmer weather and a Holiday Weekend just around the corner, it is important to remind people about rip currents and that conditions at the coast can change quickly. Of course, people cant be just sitting out on the beach but surfers can be out there, sandhya. As they mentioned, its going to be warm this weekend. It is, indeed. And ama and larry, were going to ease people into the warming trend. Today it began. Wre going to slowly crank it up as we head into the weekend. By monday, youre going to feel the heat. Let me show ou a live picture from our santa cruz camera. It is absolutely gorgeous. A serene scene. People look like theyre social distancing nicely. Heres a look at your memorial day weekend forecast. A warming trend on saturday with upper 80s going to low 90s sunday. By memorial day, its going to be sizzling inland. Upper 90s inland. Mid 70s right near the coastline. Live doppler 7 showing you pretty much clear skies in the bay area compared to 24 hours ago. Temperatures are up. Just about everywhere. 4 degrees warmer in san jose. 6 degrees warmer in santa rosa. Oakland up, too. And livermore up 7 degrees. Is this stunning or what . From our sutro tower camera. Looking at downtown San Francisco. Sant ra rosa, 79 degrees. Low 80s around concord. Fairfield. Another live picture from our kgo roof camera. Look how clear the air and clean the air is with fewer people commuting. A little breezy outside. Not terrible, though. 65 in the city. It is 79 in redwood city. 75 in san jose. And from our east