Reporter Santa Clara County and Alameda County had similar totals but the south bay with 280 new cases and 2 deaths. We are seeing significant challenges. We had an increase of the number of people coming up and testing positive and also had an increase of younger people getting sicker. Reporter Governor Newsom said hes extending the moratorium pass the deadline and chavez said santa clara will follow suit, which is good news for renters, except its being done because the covid situation is getting worse. Robert handia, nbc bay area news. As cases continue to grow, ite who test positive. The average right now over a twoweek period, 7. 4 . The governor said if that gets above 8 , its extremely alarming. If we look at several counties, several are above that. L. A. County, 7. 5 , San Bernardino county, 11. 5 . Compare that with the bay area. Our positive rates are lower. Santa clara at 4 now. San mateo and alameda both hovering around 5 . San francisco with the lowest on this map at 3 . Today new dataia from the cdc and much of it focuses on the bay area. Among the takeaways, many more people here were infected that previously believed but thats not all. Raj joins us with some of the details. Raj . Jessica, a couple notable takeaways here, until last month, if you think about it, testing was not widespread. Were talking relatively speaking here. This new data released today suggests our infection rate was 10 times higher than the reported number of cases. This was at the end of april. Heres how we got there, blood samples were taken from commercial labs of people who went in for routine patient care, not for covid reasons. Those samples suggest we may have had good 65,000 cases here in the bay area back when only 7,000 people had actually tested positive. Also worth noting here, 2 to 6 have been infected, and overall thats not so bad. How about the delays in testing . Thats been a big issue in the last few weeks. Heres an example, i got tested myself for precautionary reasons about a month ago. Those results took two to three days to come back. I got tested again last week and still have not heard back and that leads to a big problem. People could really in theory have the virus, they could be out and about at the Grocery Stores and maybe even going to work for about a week before those test results come in. Doctors say thats far too late. This is the scene today in Alameda County, by the way. Our sky ranger overhead. You can see people lining up the urgent care site at marina village. Heres the gamechanger. Theyre waiting to get tested. Once you get tested, you get the results in 15 minutes. 500 people can be tested each day. Appointments are encouraged but not necessary. Instead of urgent care who doesnt have the capacity, we now have this huge capacity with a big openair environment to do the this safely. Reporter that is encouraging. The site is open indefinitely. Again, thats in alameda at the marina village. Coming up in just a few minutes, another notable story. This time its about the checkered past of john muir, as in muir woods and major announcement today from the sierra club that john muir cofounded back in the late 1800s. Back to you. An iconic San Francisco tourist spot is taking a hit because of the pandemic. The Ferry Building is temporarily shutting down the majority of its shops and restaurants, basically all of the interior businesses that dont have a door that opens to the outside. This is fallout from the july 13th statewide Public Health order regarding indoor shopping malls. San francisco has decided the Ferry Building is a mall. Interior shops can still do Curbside Pickup and the Farmers Market and Outdoor Dining tables will continue to operate normally. Save our salons was the unusual rallying cry outside alamedas Health County department today. Sign waving and protesters protesting the states concession to allow hair cutting outside. They say it doesnt help them. There are specials like hair coloring and extension procedures that must be done indoors. One worker said the pandemic gutted her salon in pleasanton. Im asking someone out there who has the control, power, Governor Newsom, anybody have this conversation with us, tell us how to be safe. Tell us how to reopen our salons so we can get back to business and continue to take care of our families. Reporter salon workers say theyre trained and licensed in operating clean and safely and worked hard to qualify for the reopening. President trump held another solo Coronavirus Briefing today. The president said there were already plans to distribute a vaccine with one becomes approved. He said the country has secured 500 million doses of vaccine. He also outlined steps the federal government plans to take to help nursery homes in hardhit areas and once again embraced cdc guidelines. Our strategy is to shelter the highest risk americans while allowing younger and healthy citizens to return to work or school while being careful and very vigilant. Reporter so far more than 143,000 americans have died from the virus. A major reversal for Santa Clara Countys district attorney. Tonight as the push for criminal Justice Reform continues across can the country, jeff rossen announced today he will no longer pursue the Death Penalty in any cases, after previously supporting capital punishment. Executions currently are on hold in california. Rose anne also outlined several reforms including a special team to investigate police misconduct, working to eliminate cash bail and backing off pursuing minor violations. He said his office is also moving away from filing charges against people if theyre only accused of resisting arrest. Thats the move the president and San Jose PoliceOfficers Association called reckless. Oakland, not splashing any more money for its police force, not now. Mayor libby schaaf cast the tiebreaker vote that strips funding from opd. She said shes sticking to her commitment to cut 50 of the budget. Reporter the intimidation did not work. Youre crossing a line when you do this to her house. Reporter one day after vandals painted the words defund opd on the garage door of oaklands mayor libby schaaf, the mayor voted no to an amendment that would cut more money from the Police Department. She said, quote, any further cuts to the Police Department will require a significant reduction to our widely recognized, inadequate 911 response. Tasha meanty watched the 10hour long Virtual Council meeting from her home. Its crazy. The overtime we have and way were allocating the tasks theyre doing is nonsensical. Reporter theyre urging members to reallocate millions from opds budget and reinvest taxpayer money into housing and Mental Health services. Opds interim police chief said in the last year police spent 2. 75 million on overtime for officers who monitor tests including the george floyd demonstrations. When people hear the term defund the police, they get scared and think were going to have a Lawless Society and it will be crime run rampant but the idea is to build structure. Reporter this Council Member says shes committed to recreating that structure. Her plan to cut more than 1 million from the Police Budget was also voted down but shes setting her hope on the task force to reform policing in oakland. In oakland, melissa colorado, nbc bay area news. Soon some California College students will have to study social justice in order to graduate. Today the California State University board of trustees voted to require students on all of its campuses to take ethnic studies or social justice course. The requirement takes effect in three years. The first change to the general education curriculum in more than 40 years. The state legislature is working to pass a similar but more narrowly focused bill. Up next changing with the times. The reason the sierra club is rethinking its associate with its founder john muir. Plus, a big commitment to bridging the digital divide. Whats being done in the south bay to make sure students have the equipment they need to learn at home. Im chief meteorologist jack bruin airy. I will have more on hotter temperatures ahead. Plus hurricane douglas developing in the pacific. I will give you the path and why you should watch out for this if youre traveling to one certain location. We welcome our viewers here in the west. Its back to school, and, yes, the classroom for some kids today in the south. Well show you how one district is hoping to keep everyone healthy. Also, the major bank accused by some customers of not collecting mortgage payments and hurting their Credit Ratings when we see you back here tonight. Menutaur get a load of my southwest cheddar cheeseburger. Let menutaur make it a doubleeee, yeah its beautiful say what . I said its bea. Try my 5. 99 southwest cheddar cheeseburger combo and make it a double for a buck more. Order now with no contact delivery. An incredibly dangerous situation in a San Francisco neighborhood. Cameras captured gunnmen opening fire. It happened july 11th just after 8 00 in the bayview. Watch the video. You see the black chevy stop in the street, four people get out and look at the guns. They starts shooting. Officers found dozens of shell casings at the area. Two people were shot, one went to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Police are asking you to help track down the shooters by looking at the individual video. An iconic figure in the area is under scrutiny, the sierra club is announcing a change in its stance on john muir. Raj mathai has more. We were taught john muir was a champion for the environment. That is true but theres another side of john muir that was announced today by the sierra club. He was a scottishamerican who founded the sierra club in San Francisco in the late 1890s. Hes also considered the father of the national parks. But today the club said muir had a history of using racist and derogatory terms against blacks and native americans. And because of that theyre disassociating the club with muir. We dont want someone to see just a picture of john muir and description of him as an environmental hero, for example, without knowing the full story. So some other items now, what does that mean for muir woods in marin county . As for now, no changes. Mue muir woods is part of the national association. However, the John Muir Medical Center in Contra Costa County is also named after him. They are reexamining now the history and legacy of muir. There will certainly be a lot of serious discussions and open forum whens it comes to john muir and how we remember him and a lot of the public figures and a lot of the public agencies associated with his legendary name. Guys, well send it back to you. Thank you, raj. Conflict eased a bit in marin county over how to begin the new school year. Back in june the superintendent announced students would return to classrooms for inperson learning. Teachers and parents pushed back. Today county leaders announced schools will open with Distance Learning at first, perhaps with the hope of opening some time after labor day. In a statement the superintendent said, while this information is disappointing, we are prepared for the safe return of students and staff to the classroom where they belong. Of course, keeping children happy and healthy is a priority. Santa clara said it is taking action. The county is not going back to school yet. County leaders and san jose Officials SayDistance Learning this time around will be better, and that more students will be able to stay connected. The city of san jose is going to be investing 24 million to build infrastructure for Online Learning throughout our city of san jose and the county has invested 7. 1 million for devices. The county adds one of the big failings uncovered by Distance Learning last spring was digital divide, making online connectivity difficult for students in lowerincome neighborhoods. On a flight today United Airlines announcing anyone who hops on board a flight must wear a mask in the airport. They will put signs up reminding people of the policy and have workers offering free masks if someone isnt wearing one. United also said it will require passengers to fill out a Health Assessment during online checkin before allowing them to fly. Lets check in with chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Kind of nice day today. It just seemed warm but not unusually warm. Yeah, yeah. Warm day out there. Not too hot. Just kind of right there in the middle. But we definitely are going to get more heat building in that extended forecast. For one thing though, it has been saving us from triple digits this past couple of weeks. So we will bring you outside to the High Definition skycam ra network. The skycam that tells the story is San Francisco. In july the fog rolling in, pretty typical, but its just been this backtoback pattern that, again, has kept our temperatures out of the 100s. Good news again there. You will see it moving in fast here at 2,500 feet, pushing into San Francisco. We do expect the low clouds to stay in place tonight and temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s next couple hours and then we will be solid here with 50s once we hit later on tonight and those clouds. For tomorrow morning i expect patchy clouds even down towards the south bay, just a little bit there. But a better chance of those early clouds for the peninsula and trivalley and well also start in the 50s. Right over to the east bay, San Francisco and the north bay will have a better chance of some widespread cloud cover and down to my chilliest here in the north bay at 54 degrees. Lets get you a topdown view of the cloud cover. I think this helps you plan for the morning if youre up early. You will know where youre running into fog and drizzle. You will see its where we usually see it this time of year over ma ririn, napa, sonoma counties, oakland, of course, San Francisco. But maybe not as much for the trivalley and south bay. The one spot maying gilroy and thats just from cloud cover undercutting it and moving in from the south. As we hit the afternoon, sunshine returns and we will have another nice day. That means, yes, it will be warm but83 in los gatos, 81 morgan hill. Few upper 80s to 90s near pittsburg and antioch but look how it drops off. Over to hayward, 75. Closer to the beaches, we will be even cooler of course. 71 in san mateo and there you go, cold 60 in half moon bay. That trend of 60s continues into San Francisco for embarcadero, mission and ingleside. And the north bay, got to head up to napa or sonoma tomorrow . Well have low 80s and we will get some sunshine. If youre doing traveling, i know a lot of us are hunkered down at home, doing work from home, but if you are traveling, i want you to know about hurricane douglas. Looks like this weekend if youre traveling to hawaii maybe to visit family, check on folks, we are looking at this approaching the big island. Once we hit 11 00 a. M. On sunday, its a category 1 hurricane. Winds 75 miles per hour, and moving over the islands as we head through sunday into monday. My early rain estimate is really anywhere from half inch to four inches. Wideranging totals and winds 40 to 75 miles per hour. Theres more time for this to potentially change but we will be keeping an eye on that storm track for you. In San Francisco, we keep it in the 60s the next several days with some of the fog mixing in and those rays of sun for the afternoon. Inland valleys, i want you to see once we hit saturday, sunday and monday, low 90s return but its not an extended stretch of heat. We will see it drop down by next tuesday and wednesday. Thats kind of been the best part of the weather, we go up, go back down, go back up again and we go back down again. I think thats been a Little Silver lining for folks who dont have ac. At least they dont have to worry about some extreme heat moving in most immediately. Jeff, we are moving into fire se what that will look like . You know, as we head into august, i was looking at the longrange forecast yesterday. It doesnt appear right now we would see several days in a row of 100s so august may actually offer us hope in that respect. Everything though is bone dry out there. Yeah. So i think august we could have help on the temperatures and right now theres no big win events over the next seven to ten days so thats also good news. All in all, were not doing too bad here for july at this point. Lets hope so. Thank you, jeff. Still to come having a meal in the middle of the street. San jose finally makes more room for restaurants to spread out and well show you what it looks like. East palo alto is providing extra protection for renters trying to make it in the bay. The city voted to extend the moratorium on evictions for another two months. The ordinance covers tenants who couldnt pay rent because of the covid19 pandemic. Renters are protected from being evicted until september 30th. Get ready for fewer cars, more tables and chairs in a popular downtown san jose entertainment district. San pedro square is expanding into the streets. We