To 48 hours that the backlog that is between 250,000 and 300,000 records will be resolved giving us a better sense of the total number of tests that were delayed. California health and Human Services secretary dr. Mark galley admits most of the unreported records are most likely covid19 test samples but not all. However, without a resolution two very important metrics. Total cases and percent positivity remain unclear for counties across the state. What were getting is correct but were not getting all of it. Reporter Santa Clara County testing officer says meantime its business as usual while flying blind. The state says it put a freeze on its coronavirus watch list. That means no county is being added or dropped until state Health Officials are confident the data is correct. Salono county Public Health officer dr. Balum says his office noticed the difference ins numbers july 23rd. They immediately notified the state. He says at its core the massive delay presents a Greater Health issue. By the time were talking to an individual who has a case its way too late to isolate them. We can learn about their contacts but its too late to quarantine them. Reopening decisions would be based on science and data. We apologize. You deserve better. The governor demands better of us, and we are committed to doing better. Galley says the state is making changes including developing a new Laboratory Reporting System for covid19. Im amanda del castillo, abc 7 news. In the meantime doctors are scrambling to find treatments that could save the lives of people affected by covid19. And tonight theres promising news out of ucsf. A new drug trial is getting under way that could help patients fight the virus quicker. Reporter fighting against the clock. Infectious disease doctors are unveiling a new trial that could potentially save lives. This is the third stage whats known as the adaptive Clinical Trial which is an nih sponsored trial looking at interventions for covid19. Reporter ucsfs Principal Investigator is hopeful about this new drug. And the version theyre use sg a medication actually approved for use in multiple sclerosis. Reporter a version of this drug is already produced naturally by our bodies boosting our immune system. So this is how its going to work. Half of those enrolled will get remdesivir plus the placebo. The other half will get rem des fear plus the new drug. Half the patients will get this under the skin injection i think over four days every other day and half the patients will get a pretend under the skin drug which will end up being placebo, but everyone will get remdesivir. Reporter the doctor has been studying two clineical trials that used interferem in the u. K. And hong kong to treat Covid Patients successfully. Its readily available so if the study shows its going to be effective people can just go out and get it. Reporter the results of this trial are projected for late fall. Luce pena, abc 7 news. Santa clara county may become the latest bay area county to threaten fines for people and businesses not following Public Health guidelines. What makes this proposal different, though, if its a violation that can be fixed the person or business would have between 24 and 72 hours to do so. The board of supervisors is set to vote on tuesday. Happening now with School Starting on monday progress is being made on negotiations between oakland unified and the Teachers Union over distance oe or professional deisco teachers are voting on a tentative deal for distance learning. It guarantees two hours of live online instruction per day. Teachers would have a discretion to offer more if they like. Theyll also get additional training and planning time as well as a stipend to help with cost of working from home. The deal comes about two weeks before the new school year is supposed stoostart. California announcing today colleges can reopen in phases for inperson instruction under certain conditions of course. Among the guidelines mandate the wearing of face coverings, allow seating to allow for social distancing, serve grab and go or individually pted nl o student live in every dorm room, and consulting with local public Health Officials if someone tests positive. About 20 of harvards Incoming Freshman class will defer attending instead of beginning classes this fall. Ford also reports harvard only expects about 25 of its undergraduates to live on campus after anticipating that number would be around 40 . So its a big change. Had this week abc 7 focused on what back to school will look lke. Coming up, the unique challenges being faced by bay area teachers. Developing news, President Trump says he will step in after stimulus talks ground to a halt today. The president is promising executive orders on student loan payments, payroll taxes and an eviction ban. Zerene shah has the details. Reporter tonight President Trump announcing hell step in with executive action to provide additional funds for the unemployed. Were going to enhance uemployment benefits through the end of the year, so Unemployment Benefits will be thats a big one will be brought out to the end of the year. And defer student loan payments and forgive interest until further notice. Reporter moments later the president signaling that fighting the virus would take strategy. Plasma treatments continue to show incredibly encouraging results. If you could go to a blood bank and donate that would be a tremendous help. And weve also been able to send out many more of the tests which are the five minute to 15minute result tests. Testing samples from multiple patients in one batch is also something that were very focused on in doing. Reporter the university of washington tonight pointing to a single solution to curb numbers saying the u. S. Death toll could reach 300,000 by the end of the year. Almost most people did one thing, wear face coverings. Its unclear if much of the country will jump onboard. Roughly 250,000 people from around the country are expected to be in south dakota at the annual biker rally in sturgis. On friday few people seen in masks. We just kindly took an attitude that whatever happen was what was going to happen and we just had to roll with it. Reporter and one student in georgia was briefly suspended for posting this video showing few students Wearing Masks in a crowded school hallway. When i walked in on monday it was it was worse than that i thought it would be because i thought more kids would be Wearing Masks. Reporter more schools might be seeing similar scenes. New yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo is now leaving it up to individual School Districts in the nations largest Public School system to have inperson classes. Abc news, los angeles. In the north bay traffic on the 101 overpass in novato was shutdown as a group gathered to show support for President Trump. There were also counter protesters. You can see everything was peaceful here, but police say at some point there were punches thrown between the two groups. No arrests were made. A trip to pick up contact lenses nearly turned deadly for a mother and daughter. Both are okay before gunfire broke out and a bullet rips through their car this afternoon. I never worry when i come to alameda. But that feeling suddenly changed for michelle. At first she thought she heard fireworks. I start seeing people running so thats when i realized this is a gunshot so i stepped on the gas and tried to get away from the scene. Seconds later michelle realized her car had been hit and her bullet came within inches of striking her. Just all of a sudden we heard something hit the car. Kind of sounded like a rock being thrown at the car, but then i felt something hit my seat. The round penetrated her hondas trunk and tore through the back seat. Fortunately her daughter was sitting next to her mom up front. If she would have been in the back seat it would have hit her. Sky 7 flew above. With so many bullets fired michelle is grateful it wasnt worse. I feel very blessed. I feel there was definitely an angel looking over us, god protecting us. They are okay, thank goodness. Alameda police tell us one person is recovering after being hit and hurt by flying glass. Detectives hope to find Surveillance Video from nearby businesses to help identify the shooters. Fans enjoying a night of Country Music during covid19. That story coming up next. Yes, i would love to go back to the classroom this fall. Meeting my kids and checking in with them every day is everything. Anxiety but also excitement. Bay area teachers share their thoughts on the start of the school year. And all face coverings are not created equal. What type of mask may be worse than not wearing one at all. Im meteorologist sandhya patel. Bringing the heat this weekend. Well take a look at those temperatures coming right up. All thats ahead but first heres a look whats coming up tonight on jimmy kimmel live. 30 minutes after eating and then watch jimmy kimmel live. Its too bad youre not staying in shape during covid. Im sorry youve let yourself go. Listen, i see youre covering in this different time driveins are not just for movies these days. Country music fans got their chance to enjoy an outdoor concert tonight socially distanced obviously. Ansar hassan has more of the new normal from the Alameda County fair grounds. Reporter tonight its masks on, music up and time to get out. Weve been stuck inside for a while. Its always a good excuse to get outside and listen to live music. Reporter with their cow by hats and boots theyre in the spirit of tonights country concert of the Alameda County fair grounds. Heres how it works. Its 120 per vehicle. You can bring as many people as there are seat belts in your car. Theyre a group of six. Each vehicle is park said in a marked area with space to even sit outside. You actually have your own space. Youre not trying to be super cramped so its kind of nice to have room to tailgate to do this sort of thing. So its really fun. Reporter and you can bring your own food and drinks. Yeah, we want to be able to promote local businesses but still at the same time were all trying to save money. Reporter but copromoter alex moran is trying to make money. I think were providing a Public Service to give people an outlet and a place to go thats safe. Reporter the fair grounds has space for 200 cars but tonight just sold spots. They only make enough to cover expenses and pay the bands. We got shutdown before anybody gets shutdown. Guys were like i might have to go home to mom and dad in iowa. We cant have that. So lets do something for me to get you back on the payroll and get you to work. Reporter social distancing and masks were strictly enforced. Tonight san jose local ryan skrips was the first of the three acts to ignite the crowd. As long as they make it safe for everybody were totally willing to get outside and have fun. Tonight we wrap up our back to school week here at abc 7 as part of our efforts to build a better bay area. As School Begins next week at several large bay area School Districts we wanted to find out what teachers are expecting from the Upcoming School year. Listen to what they have to say. My home is not my classroom. Yes, i would love to go back to the classroom this fall, however as a parent i would have to say no. Ive had a lot of years to work on my craft, and everything that ive known about school is different. Meeting my kids and checking in with them every day is everything. And for me teaching to a blank screen is going to be a real challenge, right. And so its finding ways to engage and build a community with kids ive never met before. This will be new for teachers and new for students to start off the school year not having established relationships. I am excited to make sure that our students actually have a fun time learning considering whats been going on. Im hoping they have cameras on just because i need to know whos who. I need to know what they look like. I need to know whos on the other end. I would say that im probably most worried that we might try to rush inperson interaction too quickly. I would hate to see like a student pass an illness to another student or to someone in that students family and it could be entirely preventable. I am worried about the future of Public School education with continued budget cuts as well as families wanting to unenroll their child from school. Im worried about the potential increase in the achievement gap of our black and brown students. In the spring we called it crisis teaching. We left school due to the closures and we did the very best we could, and i feel now we are in a better place to embark on this journey of teaching every day from home in the same way i would try to do it if i was in the classroom. Last spring i was able to have some really intentional, intensive Group Meetings with students or oneonone groups and really push my students reading which couldnt actually happen in the classroom because of all the distractions that happen. So i think once we get families reestablished and have all the devices they need and the wifi and we create community then we can actually have some deeper learning than we had in the spring. From a students perspective last year ended with an opportunity without a whole lot of accountability for learning, and so when we go back kids are going to have to learn that school is real now and school counts. And the expectation is that you show up prepared to learn and assignments get turned in, and that engagement piece needs to be in place. Education has been a topic that we have addressed all beak. So good to hear from our teachers and all the educators and all the kids as well and parents. We started with preschools on monday and graduated to Elementary Schools tuesday, middle and high school wednesday, college yesterday. You can watch all the conversations on the abc 7 news app and anywhere you stream. Another bay area tech giant is pushing back reopening plans. The San FranciscoBusiness Times reports social Gaming Company zyga is holding off on having employees to their bay area offices until early next year. It employs about 600 people in the bay area. Facebook and google said their employees can work from home until july 2021, a year from now. Delta is sticking to its word about banning fliers for not Wearing Masks. The airline ceo says well over a hundred people have been refused to board after not wearing a face covering. Researchers at Duke University say its actually worse than not wearing a mask at all. They developed a test to figure out which masks are most effective. They did so using a box, a laser, a lens and a cellphone camera to visualize the pattern of respiratory droplets. Bandannas and neck fleeces performed the worst. Its relatively comfortable because it doesnt restrict air very much. So what we found is that many more droplets got through those fleeces than would get through, for example, a simple cotton mask. Researchers say a fitted n95 mask is most effective, but surgical masks and two layer cloth masks also performed well. Activities like shopping put you most at risk for coronavirus. Choose answers to various situations and then see what the experts have to say about it. Speaking of experts we have a weather expert. We do, indeed, ama. You talking about me . We are. Right, its friday. Yes, its going to warm up. The warmth is getting to our heads. Lets take a look at a sunset from tonight. Sun went down at 8 11 from our east bay hills camera, we had a bit of fog, just a beautiful view this evening, and as we head into tomorrow were going to see the fog. Well see the sun as well, but fog is not going to be really widespread. Just leak today itll be limited so temperatures right now in the 50s to the 70s. Its actually quite comfortable across the region. As you look at live doppler 7 not a whole lot in the way of fog, but where it is foggy right now lets take a look at live picture. This is golden gate bridge. So definitely watch out if you have Early Morning plans for the weekend. We are tracking an area of High Pressure thats diverting the storm track well to the north and tour east, so were going to continue it to remain dry and warm up a bit as we head into the weekend. Heres a look at the hour by hour forecast. 9 00 a. M. , 60s 70s inland. As we go into noontime its already warming into the 80s. Still comfortable with the sea breeze and a few patches of fog. By the afternoon temperatures inland in the low to mid90s. Heres a live look from our kgo roof camera. Pretty quiet out there in terms of the winds. We have hot summer weather for you this upcoming weekend, inland at least and minor cooling is expected next week. Temperatures first thing in the morning in the 50s and 60s. Well have a few areas of fog and in the afternoon it is clear in the south bay and warm. 91 in gilroy, 92 in morgan hill, 87 in san jose, 87 in cupertino, few patches of fog around the sunset district, 66 degrees. 69 in downtown San Francisco. I the north bay temperatures will be about average for this time of year. 82 napa, 88 santa rosa, 78 san rafael. 82 free empty. How about the heat . Inland its going to be in the mid90s for places like antioch, pittsburgh, brentwood. Your accuweather seven day forecast it features one thing and thats the heat. The heat holds on for the start of the workweek but then the temperatures level off, it will be breezier and cooler on thursday with a little more cloud cover. I think well have to change it up every so often. Cant