Reporter and why jocelyn is holding on to hope that benefits are extended or she can get back to work. For my job to open, hopefully the coronavirus goes away. Waiting on that. Reporter edd says no matter what happens, 26 weeks of benefits are available and its in the process of hiring more than 5,000 people to help handle claims. In san jose, scott budman, nbc bay area news. Californias covid surge is not slowing down. Number numbers from the state are high, 9,700 cases since yesterday and another grim milestone today, 159 new deaths. Breaks yesterdays record of 157. Lets talk about the deaths. Over 8,000 people have died of coronavirus since the pandemic started. And as jessica mentioned comes after two backtoback record setting days. Daily new deaths in the state, series of peaks through march, april, and here in may. Then look when we get to july 8th. Thats when the spikes became higher. 149 people died of the virus on that day. Record high at that time. But take a look at this week. 157 deaths tuesday, then just yesterday 159. This comes as hospitalization numbers have also been climbing for weeks. Unfortunately we could continue to see the death numbers as hospital numbers fall. Cases surging in california and around the globe as well. W. H. O. Also reporting a record setting day. Over 284,000 cases were confirmed in the world in last 24 hours. Thats highest number yet. U. S. Confirming the most, making up over 69,000 of those cases. Brazil though, not far behind with 67,000 new cases. India came in third with 49,000. South africa fourth with 13,000. Now parties are largely to blame for latest jump in covid19 cases in the east bay. Oakland city leaders say too many young people are hanging out with friends, allowing the virus to thrive. Family gatherings and parties are to blame for 40 of the countys cases. Nearly double the number of people catching the virus at work. Health officials are especially worried about young people in Public Places like lake merritt. If everyone is crowded in same space and face masks come off because were eating and drinking, its no longer safe. Crescendoing, not dropping. As virus gets worse, getting more people at the lake. Park ambassadors and Code Enforcement will be warning illegal vendors and reminding people to stay six feet apart and wearing mask. San francisco has updated the Face Covering rules. Anyone over age of ten must wear a Face Covering inside common areas in buildings or within six feet of another person. Also masks should be worn even when alone in office cubicle. They were already mandatory outside at parks and going for walk on the sidewalk. Only exception is if doctor gives you permission in written note exempting you because of a medical condition. Tonight Police Searching for three men who beat a San Francisco muni driver with a bat after he confronted them about not wearing face masks. Told the three men repeatedly and when they refused, pulled over to escort them off. Thats when the men attacked the driver. Three males were being escorted off the bus, one pulled out a wooden bat and struck the bus driver. Investigators say theyre reviewing video footage but not releasing it publicly at this point. They have not released description of the attackers. Driver is recovering from his injuries. Bay areas Small Businesses have been hit so hard, more closures in and around San Francisco than in 45 states according to survey by yelp. Metro areas of city, peninsula, marin and east bay, more than 5,000 shuttered businesses. Only two cities higher, new york and los angeles. San joses total closures are just below San Franciscos by the way. Large mall trying to something new, going outside. Valley fair had just unveiled expansion inside including new bloomingdales before the outbreak. Open air market to browse and cool off with drink or ice cream. Restaurants have outside dining. Open air market open friday to it was indoor mall, had to shut down because San Francisco is on the state watch list. But the state changed the Ferry Building classification from indoor marketplace to transportation hub. Great news for the businesses there. Confusion was replaced with relief. It was exciting to be back open again. Wasnt expecting to be here today. I was curious why it was closed. And im glad its open now. Inside the Building Management enhanced cleaning protocols and air filtration, and theyre enforcing the mandate to wear Face Coverings and keep physical distance. There are growing calls for action to stop californias covid surge from continuing. As numbers continue to grow, governor is unveiling new measures. And doctors and Health Care Professionals are calling for even more. Reporter as california continues to break all the wrong records in the fight against covid, governor Garvin Newsom i announcing more protections for essential workers. Compensation and sick leave. For us to be successful stopping the spread of covid19, extinguishing covid19, which we will do, depends on our ability to keep essential workers safe. Reporter but group of more than 300 Health Care Professionals, harvard medical school, yale and ucsf included, are calling for full shutdown coast to coast for lawmakers across the country to come up with comprehensive strategy to beat the virus. Research group wrote a letter to government officials demanding the action, sent to governors, members of congress and Trump Administration arguing that more people in the United States are dying from covid19 than anywhere else in the world while the u. S. Is reopening its economy. Strength of the economy depends on the health of the people. Reporter bay area Infectious Diseases physician and fellow at Johns Hopkins center for security. Signed the open letter. Thinks the priority should be saving lives, not reopening the economy quickly. Causes more damage to continue to open things up and close them again. Reporter Public Interest group wants all nonessential businesses to close, Restaurants Limited to takeout only, public to stay home unless to get food, medicine or exercise, and masks to be mandatory, indoors or outdoors when interacting with others and ban on nonessential interstate travel. We need to ramp up testing. Its not where it should be in this country. For every one positive case, you generate about 10 to 25 contacts. Reporter for why the Public Interest group wants the shutdown, they estimate that more than 200,000 americans will die from covid19 by november 1st unless the lawmakers take more serious action. Nbc bay area news. Within the last 30 minutes weve learned that San Jose Police officer is on administrative leaf while the Department Investigates a video that appears to show him kicking and dragging a handcuffed woman across at traffic stop. Video was posted on various social media viral. Appears to show the womanhandcu mcdonalds parking lot, officer appears to kick her in the side and then handcuff her and drag her across the ground. San jose police said the car had been evading police for a week and officers begun to use force after suspect failed to comply with demands. Eddie garcia says review is under way. All lanes have reopened after brush fire after central avenue. Firefighters rushed in and put out the flames quickly. No structures were damaged. Please dont come here. Popular Northern California vacation spots reversing course for visitors. Im chris chmura in mountain view, were supporting the schools. These supplies cost families dearly. You can help them out in person. Well show you how, next. Im chief meteorologist jeff ranieri tracking hotter temperatures this weekend and latest on hurricane douglas in about eight minutes. When we welcome our viewers here in the west, what the u. S. Says between the encounter between american fighter jet and iranian liner caught on video. Head of the Los Angeles School district, why hes keeping classrooms closed on nightly news. You asked for em, so tiny tacos are back for good. Grab a box of 15 or try them loaded. Get em now with no contact delivery. A scientist accused of hiding ties to Chinese Military is in u. S. Custody. Swan in the u. S. On nonimmigrant visa to do research at uc davis, believed to have been hiding out in chinas consulate in San Francisco before taken into custody. Charged with visa fraud and expected to be in court monday. Three others have been arrested and charged. Chinese government is not commenting. String of crimes, including stealing a dog. Looking for one person in connection to all of it. Someone stole a car on pacific avenue, a fivemonthold dog. Car found, no sign of the dog. This Surveillance Video shows the suspect with the dog at drivethrough, tracking a trail of fraudulent credit card charges she made. Contact berkeley police. Town of truckee is yanking away its welcome map. On the website, theyre strongly discouraging weekend visitors. Only come if you have a reservation, they have a spike of coronavirus there. Its on the state watch list. Hopes to lift the warning in midaugust and hope cases subside. Nearly a year since the deadly rampage at gilroy garlic festival, spirit lives on in virtual setting. Celebrate the stinking rose. Held a virtual cookoff on facebook today. For the next three days, all things garlic online, celebrating one of the worlds most popular seasoning. Food, fun and community spirit. Its privilege and honor to share the spirit of the festival with the community and beyond. Next tuesday a small memorial will be held, livestreamed. Were supporting our schools with thousands of backpacks. You have opportunity to pitch in. Check in with chris chmura who is live in mountain view. Whats our goal . Reporter more than 3,000 backpacks. 3,735 to be exacted. Were between the jamba juice and pizza my heart. You can come out and donate a backpack or donate 25 for one to put in the bin. Little bit of motivation. If you donate a backpack, free slice of pizza. Do it for the kids who need it but you do get free slice of z pizza. Were happy to continue to do this, baseline needs in bay area for families is strong. When you consider whats happening economically right now even more families will have a hard time making ends meet and spending 65 to 100 for supplies needed, and whether they go to school in person or online, need supplies. Donate in person from six feet away, were doing social distancing, but you can also go to nbcbayarea. Com schools, on that web is the, build a backpack virtually or make a contribution. Invite you to join us online or in person. Back to you. If we can meet you in person, ill do it from social distance. Havent seen you in ages. Thanks chris. Lets go outside. Walnut creek, blue skies, hazy. Warmer temperatures inland. Check the forecast with chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. Hi jeff. Hey ladies. We do have a beautiful weekend coming our way, will be hotter but one of those events where its isolated heat across the bay area. Expansive view of whats happening in the atmosphere to set up this weather forecast. Will help you understand everything, then well dive deep into the numbers. All about this area of hot High Pressure building in and pushing the storm track way up into canada, no hopes of rainfall next five to seven days. Dry pattern continues and warm to hot weather. But one of these events where we have fog at immediate coastline, will find widespread temps in the microclimate forecasts. Tomorrow mornings fog, main zone through marin, napa and sono sonoma counties down through San Francisco as well. Afternoon, sunshine back. Even some of the beaches should get little bit of sun through tomorrow. Morning . Start off nice, cool and refreshing. Upper 60s. East b south bay at 59, east bay, north bay at 56. Climbing, noticeable but able to manage. Not extreme heat. 88 in los gatos, 87 at east san jose, 84 in gilroy. Close to the bay, just subtle differences with 78 in hayward, but over the east bay hills lot of hot air is trapped, dont have as much ocean breeze, get up to hotter 90 in danville, 91 livermore, 93 in antioch. Closer to the coastline. Not as warm. Simple as that. 74 in san mateo. San francisco, 61 in the marina, 65 inside. And off to the north out of the ocean, 88 in novato, 84 in sonoma and very warm 97 in clearlake. Hurricane douglas, if you have family in hawaii, headed there, douglas is category 3 hurricane, a major storm. Should weaken by sunday as it moves close to the big island, 75 miles an hour, could move over oahu, its a big storm, will continue to keep eye on that. San francisco is dry next seven days, steady 60s and little bit of morning fog here and there. Inland valleys, low 90s next couple of days into monday, then back into the 80s tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday. No extended stretch of 100 for the next seven days, so this is continued good news but for the fire danger in extended forecast at least right enough to. Good weekend coming our way. School in San Francisco hit with graffiti that may be a hate crime. Armenian school and Community Center believes its a victim of hate crime. Vandals spray painted graffiti on every wall, referencing the Armenian Genocide and recent flareup in long running conflict. Reporter the spray paint extends down the front of the building, lot of it includes words we cant show. Many of the employees and members of the community were glad that children werent here to see it. Im shocked, really shocked. Reporter the principal at the armenian school. Arrived this morning stunned by the vandalism she saw. They put graffiti and hate messages on the school walls. Armenian name is written, they have painted the flag of the country, it is a hate crime. Reporter she says police have now been given the School Security video and overnight several people tagged the school and Community Center leaving paint cans behind. Staff and supporters showed up today. Thinks it runs deeper than attack on local school. Its a warning sign from people empathetic to the authoritarian regimes and nationalism prevalent in turkey and azerbaijan. Reporter comes with other reports of targeted crimes against armenians in the world. Flareup in border fighting between armenia and azerbaijan. While i was student and while i taught here, we teach our students history. We are victims of all of this. Reporter many surprised to see vandalism in tolerant city like San Francisco. We put up our flags as symbol of were here, we see it, cant wait to cover it up. That is the plan. Reporter San Francisco police said their special Investigations Unit will lead the investigation. Hate crime is not ruled out but investigation is just in early stages. In San Francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. He won oscars, now trying to win over baseball fans too. Tom hanks special appearance with the as next. Awesome internet. Its more than just fast. It keeps all your devices running smoothly. With builtin security that protects your kids. No matter what theyre up to. It protects your info. And gives you 24 7 peace of mind. That if its connected, its protected. Even that that petcamera thingy. [ whines ] can your internet do that . Xfinity xfi can because its. Simple, easy, awesome. 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Mcdonalds latest major chain mandating masks, which city will issue tickets if you dont wear one. Cdcs new School Reopening guidance, what parents and schools need to do to keep everyone safe does it go far enough . My exclusive with the head of the countrys second Largest School district, what will he do to make sure students dont fall behind. Behind the president abrupt convention retreat, and surprising ad