Too many they say to reopen for in person learning, given that Santa Clara County in the red tier is experiencing substantial spread of covid 19. To have a lot of kids in a classroom, that is an indoor gathering, and we dont think thats safe. A high schoolteacher in san jose welcomed the decision. I wasnt totally surprised, but i was relieved. John fensterwald told Us School Districts are grappling with how and when to reopen. The Elementary School districts, its easier to bring back your teachers. If youre a unified school district, thats more difficult. Thats a harder negotiation to make. In San Francisco abc 7 news was told the unions Bargaining Team is preparing right now for three meetings next week with the school district. The Oakland Education Association on the other hand informed us that they have not not negotiated with the school district, and no talks around schools reopening are scheduled. Reginald moseley works from home and is able to supervise his three children as they work online. What about the three children whose families cant do that. They dont have a child to make sure theyre on task, theyre going to fall further behind. No guarantees that students will be back in janitor in person learning. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. To the numbers now, Worldwide Johns Hopkins University is reporting 30 million coronavirus cases. That does include people who have recovered. Cam cal is at more than 766,000 cases and in the bay area and Santa Cruz County we are getting close to 99,000 cases. New protections are in place for essential workers in california. Governor newsom signed two pieces of legislation that expand the rules. To help keep workers safe from covid19 and assist them if they contract it. Senate bill 1159 by jerry hill provides full hospital surgical medical disability and indemnity benefits to essential workers who are presumed to have contracted covid19 on the job. I think what we did was focused on what was right and just, rather than what is popular and easy. Thats something that california always does. The governor signed Assembly Bill 685 which makes sure workers have been informed if theres exposure to covid19. San franciscos famed Fairmount Hotel has reopened to guests. Employ employees were wearing masks, even tony bennett in statue form. The statue has a fairmount mask branding. An upgrade from the plain mask first donned in april. The San Francisco museum of modern art is reopening after months of closure, it kicks off with special member preview days october 1st. Daily attendance will be limited to 25 capacity. Today were taking a look back at the past six months since covid19 hit the bay area. Check out the difference in traffic. On the left, that is april, and on the right is june. I mean, clearly there is more traffic. Still, extremely light compared to what it looked like before the pandemic. In the midst of the pandemic, widespread racial protests stemming from the death of george floyd. Heres a look at the sites and sounds of what happened in the third month of sheltering in place between may and june. No lives matter until black lives matter. One word to describe this movement. Revolution of youth. Black lives matter. No justice, no peace. No racists. No peace. Many people handed out masks and hand sanitizer. The issue is how to protest safely. If you were marching, when should you get tested. The medical Community Says dont do it the day after protesting, because it takes a few days for the virus to replicate and build up in your body. Theres another flash bang grenade. My eyes are burning from the tear gas. A sea of shattered glass covers downtown oak land. Were already struggling with the coronavirus thats going on. The mall itself is open, but not every store inside the mall is open, the general manager tells me about 50 are still shut down. We had to walk in wearing a mask, we had to hand sanitize, sit down at a table, socially distance. Not all these machines are on any more. One off, one on. Were going to be cleaning all the time, it will be a never ending chore. We have 12 chairs operating at any one time. Theyll have 7, every customer social distanced. We have a turf crew that is responsible for mowing and lining crews. It takes a team of four. Its not expensive. A parade of cars full of graduating seniors. Im emotional. A little scary. It only seems right to celebrate our future. Theres little doubt that many of us are feeling more stressed six months into the pandemic. Recognizing and dealing with that stress and even depression, it isnt easy. One of the governors former top advisers watching everyone to watch out for others. Heres david louie will. For years lenny stepped up to serve as the governors economic adviser and chair of the high speed rail authority. He suddenly resigned after being diagnosed with Mental Health issues. I had no idea what was going on when i first experienced severe symptoms of anxiety and depression. And if i had not had people around me who were aware and encouraged. Getting some assistance, i wouldnt have known what to do. Hes concerned about the impact of covid19 on others. 96 of people say the pandemic has increased their stress level. There is a shortage of Mental Health specialists. Many Insurance Companies constrained the networks and the reimbursement rates that they paid psychiatrists. People were not going into psychiatry or psychology. Theres an enormous shortage. Some offer Mental Health benefits. Asking employees every day how theyre feeling. They spend 15 minutes at the beginning of a work shift or session to talk through what people are feeling. And for those who want and need more intensive help, they then have a referral network. A bill in the state senate could create a Training Program for individuals to become peer counselors. David louie, abc 7 news. As the bay area prepares for the double threat of the flu season and a resurgence of covid19. Medical experts are urging the public to get a flu shot as soon as possible. Getting one could be easier than you think. Heres abc 7 News Reporter chris wynn. The countdown to flu season is on. And medical providers say now is the time to protect yourself. Some people think theyre healthy, young, and its not going to affect them. It doesnt spare anybody. Its easy to swing by for a flu shot after grabbing coffee or takeout in the area. Appointments are accepted but not required in advance. 22 if you dont have any insurance. And 65 for high dose vaccine. The vaccine becomes effective two weeks after you receive it. These folks were taking advantage of a kaiser drive through clinic. The strains of influenza that are circulating are changing overtime. Its important to get vaccinated every year. Officials will be offering free flu shots on saturdays at the fair grounds through mid december. What the flu vaccine will do is prevent you from ending up in the hospital and making sure that we have hospital availability for those who do have covid who are very sick. While the length of protection varies from person to person, Officials Say getting a flu shot can help for up to 6 months at a time. If people continuing doing the same covid measures, the same measures of washing and masking, for covid, we should have a lower than normal flu season. There are lower than normal flu rates in the southern hemisphere. Thats no excuse not to get vaccinated. The interaction is not yet that well understood. We have every reason to suspect that if they were to happen together in the same person, it could be much more severe, much more complicated, much more difficult to treat. 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Katherine and her husband first met with dr. Michael keegan in 1978. Richards thought she was using the sperm of an anonymous donor. Keegan was richards doctor for both of her pregnancies. The first red flag came more than 40 years later, julie used 23 and me test and found her genes were too different from what she was expecting. Further investigation with a genealogyist led to the investigation into the doctor. Julie had the genetic taysachs. This is deeply disturbing. How do you deal with that . How do you feel comfortable knowing that . Maybe you never do. And now i have to deal with the fact that i passed down his genes. Am i going to see him in my children. The doctor is now practicing in virginia and west virginia. We are attempting to reach him for comment. This week were focusing on stories surrounding race and social justice. The next segment does that, but is the launch of a new series at abc 7. We will be exploring the Diverse Voices in our communities and how theyre helping to build a better bay area. Our series will tackle all sorts of different issues. Were doing something new here at abc 7. Turning our mics over to people in the community for a segment we call for the better. People who are working hard to build a better bay area. Youre going to hear from tyson amir and mike davis for the black literacy collective. Its specifically involving socially and culturally relevant content to black life in classrooms. The situation is systemic. Through the colonies and constitution, they engineered and invented multiple ways to keep us forcibly enslaved. You already know if you were here last week, i write heavy bars. So we want to break it down. I said, it will be so dope for us to put together a team like a super team of black authors. And start bringing them to the community, bringing them to schools, and one of the first authors i met, i was like, yeah, i need to partner with this brother, is a brother we have on the screen right here, michael davis. At that time i had just been released from prison, i hadnt even been out 30 days. I was i wanted to gravitate toward positive change. We started vibing, connecting real tough, in terms of what we saw, in terms of bringing a collection of powerful writers, published authors together like something that had never been done before. I dont think a dozen writers all published, different genres, Award Winning authors, emotional intelligence, just different variations that individuals cover. That third rock from the sun, they try to have me malcolm in the middle. No, im malcolm in the window. The black program is anev lucien airy step for us, as the title says, Building Leaders and activists collect knowledge. Theyre going to get the writing skills, theyre going to get stuff that allows them to touch on the common core, the state of california or the United States wants them to be exposed to in school. But in addition to that, theyre going to get the social, the political, the cultural, Historical Foundation they should have, the School System was never set up to educate our community property. The last time i was here, it was a verse from a song. A song i have called from decision. Whenever i write, i love to rhyme and i love to play with the language. As a collective of writers, we could help bridge that gap or interrupt and bring in that revolutionary educational experience that so many people are hungry for. I use poetry to explore childhood trauma, thats something that negatively impacted me so much of my life. I wanted to be able to share that with young people so they can learn to articulate their emotion. Identify certain triggers or traumas that impact them. And provide them a platform to express themselves. Often times theyre shut down, they dont feel like they have a voice. We try to provide that in the class room setting or a space where they feel safe to be able to express themselves and to be creative with that expression. Lets talk about it. I got you, and i got you next. We went from regular programming, to were designing curriculum, were helping the department, social securitys department, English Department redesign their offering for their students and were training teachers. We now have district wide relationships with school districts. Its what its about. If you want this, bring the black boy programming. Power to the people. Thats just a small part of our conversation with tyson and mike. You can hear much more on their incredible efforts on abc 7 news. Com. This is just the beginning. Every couple of weeks, youll hear from people all over the bay area who are trying to make a difference in their very diverse communities. Joe vena, thank you. Abc 7 will have more stories focused on race as we build a build a better bay area. Lets get to the forecast. Look at that, that would be a bluish sky. Yeah, but for a while, it was smokey, and then that got replaced by some fog. Yeah, the fog came in, but it didnt mix with the smokey, it helped push the smoke out again today, we have blue skies and very good air quality over most of the bay area. You can see those green dots indicating good air quality from the north bay to the central bay, over to the east bay and down to the south bay, its all looking pretty good right now. As a matter of fact, its being assisted by a brisk breeze. A vigorous onshore flow. We have winds at the surface, 15 to 22 miles an hour, helping to push that smokey air away from the bay area. Not only do we have good air quality today, we expect generally good air quality tomorrow. In fact, perhaps even better than today across the region. Over the weekend, we may see things back in the moderate zone. Right now, a live view, showing a bit of the fog beginning to push out of San Francisco, where its 65 degrees right now. Mid70s at oakland. Gilroy 89 and 64 at half moon bay. Heres a view looking westward from emeriville, you can see the fog approaching San Francisco. Other temperatures right now, 84 that is in santa rosa, 82 movado. 89 at fairfield. Livermore 84 degrees. Our forecast features, well see areas of fog and drizzle overnight. It will be cooler and breezier tomorrow with cleaner air again. Smokier and warmer conditions will develop this weekend. Now, for tonight as the fog and the drizzle move up to the coast and across the bay, look for low temperatures in the low 60s, it will be mild tonight. A bit cooler where lows will drop into the mid50s. Tomorrow, look for highs under improving conditions, in the mid60s at the coast. Mainly low to mid70s at the bayshore line. Only upper 70s, about 80, 82 degrees. It will be even cooler tomorrow than it was today. Heres the smoeft forecast, things are looking good with the greens and yellow colors on the map right now, as of saturday morning well start to see those push el colors moving now. Thats the flow of the winds bringing smoke back into the bay area, it will be widespread, the smoke will on sunday. We expect some kind of a decline. Maybe not a sharp one. The accuweather 7day forecast will work its way out. Sunday, monday, the last day of summer, it will get appropriately a little cooler, first day of fall on tuesday, fall begins at 6 31 a. M. On tuesday, well have a nice crisp pattern to accompany the first day of fall. Larry and dion. Thank you, spencer. Just ahead, going green. How some bay area schools are taking their classrooms outdoors. Holiday shopping is going to look a lot different this propit provides property tax mostfairnessble. For disabled homeowners like cynde, stuck living with a broken elevator. Nineteen helps wildfire victims, like ellie, one of 24,000 whove lost their homes to fire. And seniors like pam who need to move closer to family or medical care, without a tax penalty. Prop 19 limits taxes on our most vulnerable. Yes on 19. We know these are challenging times. Rest assured, you are not alone. Weve all had to adapt. And with summer here, your energy bills might go up with rising temperatures. Together, we can save energy and money. Try closing your shades during the day. Setting your ac to 78 or higher. Or cooling off with a fan when you can. United we are always stronger. Stay well, california, and keep it golden. Today a u. S. Judge in Washington State blocked Postal Service changes that have slowed the mail nationwide, the judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction that had been sought by 1