Mta looks at the Surveillance Video on a week by basis. Were able to take a look at the service on the streets from week to week to see how well the mask compliance is going. Reporter the sfmta also reported having trouble with a few passengers when told to mask up. According to their data from april to august 31st, this are 63 verbal altercations specifically dealing with masks and nine operators have been assaulted. One driver was struck several times with a wooden bat in july. There was a minute toiature involved, as well due to facial compliance or lack thereof. Its a scary situation, indeed. Reporter roger out Transit Workers Union local 250 a believes many more drivers are not reporting passengers who dont compile to avoid any interruption to their bus route. We would like to see more assistance out there, boots on the ground in terms of people, workers, assisting us with more compliance. Reporter the sfmta says a few things are helping. Its mandatory for bus drivers to use the protective plexiglass barrier as seen in this video from the metro commission. We increased that throughout the city, crossing guards, transit inspectors as they come back in from doing other Disaster Service work are deployed. Reporter all of them received deescalation training. Muni operators will start that training in the fall. Lyanne melendez, abc 7 news. Lets have a quick look now at where california stands with the coronavirus numbers. There were nearly 1700 new cases today. Thats well below the daily average of about 3,000. Another 28 people died from covid. The states daily average has been around 80. The 14day Positivity Rate is 2. 7 . We havent seen much flexuatiucn in that number the past several days. Its a good under yeindicator o transmission rate. State officials will require counties to bring down covid19 rates in disadvantaged communities that have been harder hit by the pandemic. Some have worried the new measure could slow down the states reopening but could actually speed things up. Chris nguyen explains why. Reporter the new equity met trick unveiled by the California Department of Public Health will incentivize counties to decrease covid19 infections by focussing on zip codes that include black, latino and Pacific Islander communities. We want our businesses and communities to come together and realize it is so important, both to address these disparities and actually to really address this pandemic head on. Reporter a Santa Clara County out reach team is going door to door educating the public how to stop the spread. This neighborhood is predominantly latino and one of the areas in the county hit. Many latino people work in the service undust industry. They dont have the pleasure of working from home in zoom. Reporter under the states push Health Equity measure, done menation of out reach activities like these could help the county move into a less restrictive tier as part of the states reopening frame work that looks at test positivity and adjusted case rates. We should be very proud of our Public Health leadership in Santa Clara County for being proactive, for recognizing these Health Disparities early on and helping focus some of their efforts in these communities. Reporter the measure is believed to be the first of its kind in the country. Health equity experts say its an innovative approach to controlling the pandemic. My hope is that we really give us coordinated systway to the economy quicker and safer. Reporter in the south bay, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. Activists are continuing their call for Governor Newsom to release state Prison Inmates because of the pandemic. Two groups were in front of sanguisa ssa san qui nrnton. They want all death row inmates released. About twothirds of prisoners inside have contracted covid. They have been on lockdown since march with limited access to medical needs. This summer Governor Newsom approved the release of 18,000 inmates to reduce the threat of covid19 in state prisons. According to the California Department of corrections, 1700 inmates are infected with the virus and 69 have died since the pandemic began. The National Lawyers guild is joining a group of attorneys and legal workers calling for changes in the way santa rita jail deals with covid. The group says there are five major covid outbreaks at the jail since march. They are demanding the county Health Department assume control of medical care at the jail and implement a new testing protocol. The effort comes a day after the Sheriffs Office announces the formation of a covid compliance unit to ensure deputies wear masks. So how risky is Something Like a Family Gathering compared to getting a haircut or taking a bus . Youll want to test your knowledge and see whatabc7news. In the north bay, 16 firefighters on the glass fire were evaluated for possible Carbon Monoxide exposure. The exposure occurred out of the fire area this morning. The firefighters were taken to the Sonoma County fairgrounds and evaluated by medical staff. The fairgrounds is serving as the glass fire command center. One firefighter was taken to a hospital and the others were released back to the fire line. The glass fire is now 50 contained. A new Damage Assessment reveals 600 homes have been destroyed. 66,840 acres have burned. More than 21,000 structures are still threatened. The Sonoma CountySheriffs Office says it doesnt expect to lift any evacuation orders there today. Sky 7 flew over napa with our exclusive sky map 7 technology to show you the devastation. Reporter the scope of destruction of the glass fire can be best seen from the air. The world famous ranch resort utterly devastated. Not a single structure standing on the property just off silverado trail. A few miles south near deerpark, house after house on crest month drive burned to the ground while some neighboring homes stood untouched using sky map technology, you can see where crest mont drive is and the hill behind the homes scorched. In the down of deerpark, the sports park is untouched and the school burned to the ground. More than a dozen homes on one street flattened by the inferno. Zooming in on sunny side road as sky 7 panned, you can see the whole street just devastated. Another world famous resort, meadow wood heavily damaged just trees standing around this part of the resort. The restaurant destroyed. Over the hill in Sonoma County near oakmont, sky map again showing us what were looking at. Near arlean street and up Maxwell Court torched buildings and blackened ground. A short distance away, more devastation on montana road and sky map shows us where this is near sonoma highway 12. 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It really easy to apply. Go to irs. Gov and its on the front page. Ikea seen a huge boost in online sales as many turn their homes into offices and schools. The retailer says online sales grew by 45 over the past year although some of that is coming from new markets like china. Overall sales dropped 4 because of pandemic store closings. Teenagers, theyre also experiencing the Financial Impact of the pandemic. A new survey finds spending by teens is at an alltime low down 9 from last year. Teens are also increasingly pessimistic about the state of the economy with half of them saying the economy is getting worse. Teens mostly spend money on clothing and food and as you might suspect, amazon is their top e tailer site. Back to you two. Good stuff. Thank you. Apple has set up a date for the debut of its latest iphone according to c net the device rumored to be called the iphone 12 will be unveiled one week from today. The report says the phone will include 5 g Wireless Connectivity and an ipad inspired design. The debut comes weeks after the tech giant announced the release of a new apple watch and ipad. The pandemic and economic turmoil that have caused moderate income folks to be cautious about pursuing their dream of homeownership. When there is chaos, there is often opportunity keep in mind. Abc 7 News Reporter david louie introduces you to a family that just move into their first home during these very uncertain times. Reporter its a big commitment to buy a house in a county where the median price is 1. 4 million. That was giving schoolteacher david wolf and his wife karina reason to consider moving away to buy a house due to their moderate income. But they moved into this threebedroom, twobath san jose house two weeks ago thanks to a special program for teachers, special service workers. Their children couldnt be happier. How do you like your new house . Very good. Reporter housing for a Silicon Valley administers the loan program. The pandemic gave some potential a a people cold feet. Some say no because of the pandemic were moving forward. Reporter the family had 3 saved up toward a 20 down payment. Empower fills the gap with a 17 loan funded by a bond measure passed by voters four years ago. A lot of people told us that right now wasnt the time to do it, and, you know, like you hear a lot of comments but for us it was a sacrifice were going to do for our kids. Reporter the pan ddemic may have helped in one regard. There is a limit of 800,000 on the purchase price. Its not as difficult now. Each of these houses in san jose is under 800,000. Homeownership is a major commitment but has a positive impact on the family. We were in a second floor apartment and always felt like we were bothering neighbors below us and we felt like the children shouldnt be we didnt want them to play because of the noise but feel like were taking away their childhood. Reporter they have a floor to play in and mom and dad dont have to pay the home until they sell or refinance. David louie, abc 7 news. Good for them. We wish them all the luck in the world. Well check in with spenlser cri Spencer Christian and check out the weather. It still fairly cool. It is. Its cooled down a lot since yesterday actually because we have a deepening marine layer and sea breeze. You can see the 24 hour temperature change shows us that its ten degrees cooler in San Francisco right now than at this time yesterday up to nine degrees cooler in many locations near the bay. Here is the view from the tower looking out over San Francisco. You can see a few cloud shadows over the city as the low clouds are advancinadvancing. 58 in San Francisco right now. 66 oakland. Mid to upper 70s at Mountain View and san jose and 86 gilroy and 56 at pacificia. Here is the view from emeryville. 88 in santa rosa and 95 fairfield and 90 at concord and livermore and as we look down on to the bay, San Francisco from the mountain camera. These are our forecast. Foggy coast and bay conditions overnight and into tomorrow morning of course. Much cooler pattern beginning tomorrow. Looks like its begun already but it will continue tomorrow and there is a chance of rain on friday and saturday. Meanwhile, air quality will be improving. Today is a spare the air day and we have two more tomorrow and thursday mainly because of poor air quality in the north bay but notice the greens are indicating good air quality is expected in virtually every other region the next two days and on friday and saturday if things stay as they are now, there will probably not be spare the air alerts. Forecast animation shows lots of low clouds and fog pushing out over the bay and locally inland overnight, early tomorrow morning it will be hanging around during the morning commute and pull back to the coastline for the most part in the daytime tomorrow. Overnight low temperatures will be mainly in the low to mid 50s. Relatively seasonally cool night i guess you could call it and tomorrow highs will range from only 58 at Half Moon Bay to 62 San Francisco and 68 oakland. Inland east bay around or above 80. Down in the south bay mainly mid to upper 70s. North bay highs in the mid 70s, as well and as we skip ahead now to friday, notice we have a little rainfall system, rainmaker coming our way friday around midday or so its expected to produce light rain into the afternoon hours and into the overnight hours on saturday. Then a second wave is likely to swing through on saturday expected to produce rainfall. The forecast models are all over the place in terms of rain fall measurements but generally were looking at maybe. 15 to. 2 or higher in San Francisco. Here is the accuweather sevenday forecast. Two more spare the air days tomorrow and thursday as the cooling continues. In fact, the coolest day of the forecast period will likely be saturday. Mid 70s inland, upper 60s around the bay. Upper 50s on the coast and then early next week, a little bit of a warming trend, bright mild to warm autumn days on monday and tuesday. Nice. All right. Looking forward to that. Thank you, spencer. Well, art meets the times. The packed new exhibit that is more than just a sign of the times. Whats in a name . It takes to get something named after you, dan. You should know the answer to this. Where can a healthier heart lead you . For people with Heart Failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. Entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. 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