Plus the bay area county making an impassioned plea for people to wear masks. Also i feel 100 comfortable sending my kids back to school with safety precautions. I desperately miss my students, and i missed them all spring, but we also want to be safe. So whats the right answer . The question so many families and teachers are struggling with. Tonight more difficult decisions were made. Good evening and thanks for being with us. Im raj mathai. Parents and teachers are getting a lot of mixed messages. Is it safe to return to campus . Tonight San Ramon Valley unified joining several other School Systems by keeping students and teachers at home. Is it the right decision . Nbc bay areas Sergio Quintana is at district headquarters in danville. Reporter this is a decision that comes after lots of deliberation. There are plenty of parents, students, and teachers that are breathing a sigh of relief. But there are some people who had been pushing for students to return to class five days a week. The hourslong San Ramon ValleyUnified School DistrictBoard Meeting was basically a continuation of a similar meeting earlier in the week. During that meeting, Board Members seemed poised to pass a plan to have some students return to class and others stay at home. Tonight Board Members acknowledged new info from the Contra Costa County department of health and an announcement from governor gavin newsom has prompted them to change course. All in favor of the motion, say aye. Aye. Opposed say no. Motion carries unanimously. They decided to start with Distance Learning. Attendance will be taken, and grades will be given. I feel so relieved. Trust me when i say that all Teachers Want to be back in their classrooms. I desperately miss my students but we also want to be safe. Rachel decker says returning to Distance Learning is not ideal, but teachers have learned lo lots of lessons over the spring that will help this school year go smoother. Some parents had been pushing for the option to send their kids to school five days a week. We cant live our life in fear. Im not going to let fear dictate my choices for myself and my family. Reporter they hope that will soon be offered. I want to know that after labor day, were going to reassess the data. Lets get us back into school. Reporter doherty Valley High School teacher rob jen dren is also a parent of two students. He says the decision eases concerns about possible Coronavirus Infections at school. I would hate for any student to wonder why their teacher was ill or their classmate got ill. Reporter in danville, Sergio Quintana, nbc bay area news. Also new at 11 00, san jose unified will not return to campus next month. The schools will begin with Distance Learning for at least the first six weeks. A survey that found a majority of the parents and teachers were in favor of Distance Learning during this pandemic. As sergio mentions, the governor expected to make an announcement tomorrow at noon. You can watch his News Conference live on nbc bay area or nbcbayarea. Com. Also on our website, our return to school roundup. More districts are making decisions every day. We made it real easy for you to keep track. The link is right at the top of our home page. Just find your school district. Another grim milestone now. Coronavirus cases in the u. S. Reached another singleday high. You see the number there. 72,000 new cases today. The previous record was set last friday. Locally, 841 new cases in the bay area today. Cases in san fr county. Alameda county had 145. And in santa clara county, 101. Of the people getting tested, how many are testing positive . This is our Positivity Rate. The governor wants all counties to stay below 8 . You can see almost all bay area counties are below that number except marin county on the far left. Its Positivity Rate almost 13 . Thats due to the outbreak at san quentin prison. Theres also an outbreak at santa rita jail in dublin. Today the jail reported 40 inmates tested positive in a twohour period. Total cases at santa rita, 46. One of the most prominent tech leaders in the world is proposing fines for people who dont wear a mask. This is an issue thats already being discussed in san mateo and napa county. Will it become a reality . Heres nbc bay areas jean very simply, wear your damn mask. Reporter San Mateo County supervisor david canepa is frustrated by the rising number of covid19 cases and bare faces. He says studies show masks stop the spread of the virus, which helps keep businesses open. What were facing is not only a Public Health crisis, but were facing an economic crisis. Reporter an economic crisis that could get worse. San mateo county is on the verge of being put on the state watch list because of an increase in cases. Landing on the list means fitness centers, hair salons, and places of worship will have to close again. The county has launched a billboard campaign. Governor gavin newsom is encouraging mask use on twitter. A growing number of elected officials across the country are now mandating masks to help slow the surge. Arkansas and colorado now require masks statewide while georgias governor is trying to reverse mask orders in at least 15 cities. Atlantas mayor is not backing down. If you want to protect yourself and your customers, you should wear a mask. Our policies are enforceable, and they stand. Reporter salesforce Ceo Marc Benioff is urging elected officials to find people who dont cover their face, comparing masks to seat belts. Supervisor canepa says he supports that idea. I believe like marc benioff that its more like a seat belt. If you dont wear your seat belt, youre fined. The analogy is similar because were saving lives. Reporter jean elle, nbc bay area news. Heres where we stand with the governors watch list. Seven of the nine bay area counties are on that watch list. San mateo and San Francisco counties are not. Health leaders in those two counties are closely watching the numbers, hoping to avoid furthershutdowns. The search for solutions. Later in this newscast, the new covid test that can give you results in two minutes with no nasal swab. I want to update you now on that fire near livermore, firefighters say theyve been able to stop the flames from spreading. This was part of our breaking News Coverage during our 6 00 newscast. Our sky ranger was overhead. You can see the flames in a remote area Near Southeast livermore. You can see all that charred land there. This was off tesla road. It burned more than 250 acres and as of this hour, 60 containment. There is some closure now to the ghost ship fire of 2016. The city of oakland will pay a 32 million settlement. Lawsuits filed on behalf of 32 of the 36 People Killed claim oakland was negligent for failing to inspect and shut down the warehouse which had been illegally converted into living space. It noted police and firefighters had visited the building, and the Planning Department had received complaints. Yet no action was taken. The settlement awards 23 million to the families of the victims and 9 million for a survivor who is now living with severe injuries and m expenses. Also new at 11 00, a terrifying Home Invasion in willow glen. A man fights back to in and held her at gunpoint. The couple believes they were targeted for their litter of French Bulldog puppies. Heres nbc bay areas Anoushah Rasta in san jose. Reporter the couple that youre about to hear from is asking you to take a good look at the getaway car that were going to show you in this story and report to police if you have any information or even video of your own of their attackers so that these men dont hurt anybody else. I was freaking out. I i didnt know what was going to happen. Reporter it was like a scene out of a dark movie. They were just two strange men in my house, 6 00 a. M. In the morning. Im barely waking up. Reporter San Jose Police say the two suspects were wearing black baseball hats and masks, and they kicked in this willow glen couples front door early monday morning and broke into their house. Erica fell asleep on the living room couch after watching movies the night before with her husband, rodel. Hed gone to bed in the middle of the night, hours before the terrifying attack on his wife. I just started screaming at the top of my lungs. Her scream was just unbelievable. Im on the floor with my dog, and they point a gun to my head. I absolutely knew that i had to get my firearm. I got it from the other room, loaded the magazine, pulled it back. Reporter rodel tells us he carefully took a look to see where his wife was before even thinking about pulling the trigger. I heard the guy say, i got your girl. I got your girl. Reporter but when he made sure erica was not in the way i finally had the opportunity to rush towards him with my gun. I wanted to get closer but as soon as i rushed toward them, they ran out the door. Reporter the couple shared this Surveillance Video with us of what they describe as the suspects getaway car, a mercedes e350 with custom rimse horrible Early Morning encounter. It couldnt have been more than two to three minutes. Reporter two to three minutes theyll remember for the rest of their lives. If my husband wasnt there, i dont know what i would have done. Reporter Anoushah Rasta, nbc bay area news. A historic hire in richmond. The city has appointed a new police chief fnlts bisa french will now head the Police Department. Shes a 22 year veteran of the department, has been serving as interim chief since last september. Shes the first black woman to lead the department. Frenchs permanent position will take effect august 1st. Still ahead here at 11 00, it was approved by palo alto, but the Police Department wants it taken down. The controversial image in a black lives matter mural. And its a big problem. Long lines at testing sites and long waits for the results. But could this be a solution . A new rapid covid test that works like a breathalyzer. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Details on where the fog is for the morning and how much we made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. 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Cal fire has now forwarded its report to the Sonoma County district attorney. Fire victims filed a lawsuit against pg e just last week. Well, he didnt paint the black lives matter mural, and he didnt paint over it either. Instead, he pulled a gun. A martinez man now faces felony charges. Cell phone Video Shows Police pulling over joseph osuna. You see there in that black jeep. Witnesses say on july 5th, he drove by the citys black lives matter street art and shouted at the activists there. Prosecutors say he then turned around and pulled a loaded gun on a bystander. The maximum penalty would be three years in custody. The encounter with osuna came one day after this couple vandalized the cityapproved street art. That couple is now charged with vandalism and committing a hate crime. We also have an issue in palo alto. Police officers want a mural changed. That mural includes an image of asada shakur, she was a member of the black Power Movement and convicted of killing a new jersey state trooper. Shakur escaped from prison in 1979 and is believed to be hiding out in cuba ever since. Now a bay area artist included shakur as part of this citysanctioned mural. A National Police group says having shakur as part of that mural is an insult to Police Officers everywhere, and they want palo alto to scrub shakur off. Police officers have to walk by that every day and see the face of a convicted cop killer. Thats a hostile work environment. You have to defend asada, a righteous woman, a woman who fought for her people. Palo alto mayor adrian fine says he got hundreds of calls about the mural. He took the artists advice and read up on asada shakur, and for now the mural will stay as is. The black lives matter movement, its history, and how its evolved was something Marcus Washington and Jessica Aguirre talked a lot about this evening. If you missed our special, race in america, we invite you to watch it online at nbc bay area. Com. Theres a link to this hourlong episode at the top of our page. This could be a gamechanger when it comes to our sluggish testing process. Right now most people tested for covid have to wait for days to get back those results. Doctors say those delays cost several lives. Tonight a breakthrough. Nbc bay areas ian cull has more. Reporter with long wait times at many testing sites, there is a rush to develop tests that are less invasive with faster results. In finland, scientists have developed one that works like a breathalyzer. Its a lot more efficient. Its almost real time, the results. Its a lot cheaper. Reporter prototypes are shipping across the world to africa, south america, and last week, the bay area to gather more data. We can provide almost realtime solution because our turnaround time is just two minutes. Reporter nanosensors inside detect different gases, identifying things in our bodies just like a blood test. Over the next month, the Company Hopes to confirm the gases and their levels that correspondent to positive Covid Patients even if theyre asymptomatic. There is not enough Testing Capacity to test the mass population in a short time frame. We are opening up that bottleneck. Reporter also around the bay area, multiple labs and startups are working to increase efficiency in testing. This is why i got into science, to be able to help people and to be able to support the communities that support each other. Reporter the San Franciscobased company has labs in oakland. It held testing drives for underserved communities. Theyre also contracting with businesses to test employees returning to the office. The results come back in 12 to 24 hours, and theyre doing 5,000 tests a day here and in new york. If people can have access to testing or receive tests in a controlled way, then we can really stop the spread of this virus quickly. Reporter ian cull, nbc bay area news. That could be very effective. Well, barbershops, hair, and nail salons have been some of the hardest hit local businesses. They were forced to shut down the longest and have now been told to shut down again. One hair salon in san jose weve been covering tried to move its business outdoors but was then told outdoor cuts violates the state code. Today salon owners pleaded with the governor to make an exception. The people that are on that list of recent closures have been licensed by the state in sanitation. We are, and there is no reason why we dont get the respect that we deserve and that we worked so hard for. Theyre asking to be able to cut outdoors. No word yet if the governor will grant the exception. Many say they will soon go out of business if they arent allowed to reopen. Lets put a smile on our face. Lets bring in our chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. One thing i dont know if youve noticed but we have plexiglas here all around the newsroom. So when you come back, whenever that is, its a strange sight, ill tell you. I know. Ive seen it, you know, through the tv, and it looks good for the protection definitely. Its quite a different atmosphere. I know myself, i think im a little over four months working from home, so lets go ahead and get you some good weather as we move through tomorrow. As we start off tomorrow morning, we do have the fog moving a little bit more inland as we start off. Even the chance of some drizzle right up against the immediate coastline. You can see over marin, napa, sonoma counties, the low clouds, even extending over to vallejo, maybe back to concord, also orinda, concord, berkeley, San Francisco and some down to redwood city. Then for the afternoon, that sunshine returns. But if youre headed to the beaches, do know well still have some areas of fog at times. Temperatures, it i nice. It is easy this time of the year when you have that fog rolling in. 50s for the south bay, peninsula, and the trivalley. And pretty m