More than 1000 bay area teachers tell administrators they are not returning to the classroom until they feel safe. The top Santa Clara CountyHealth Official is warning covid19 could spread like wildfire and only weeks and how he says that the state could step in. The governor announcing a plan to release 8000 inmates statewide due to covid19, how many are from here at san quentin and who will be released. It is just about 6 00 a. M. On this saturday, july 11th. I am devin fehely and lets start with the Weather Center. This morning looks exceptional and the one looking east at the sunrise is Perfect Timing with sunrise officially happening at 5 58. Here we are at 6 01 with the sun piercing the east bay hills. This is looking north over alcatraz up to marin county and that is the scene to the west with no marine layer this morning. Clear skies for everybody with temperatures ranging from a cool 50 at santa rosa to the warm 60 in san jose. The headline today is 100 degrees heat inland at contra costa and Alameda County. It is just as hot today inland as it was yesterday. If you are near the coast we have enough of an onshore flow that we will keep things where they should be this time of the year with daytime highs in the upper 60s in the city, mid70s for the bay. It is not an equal day temperaturewise across the bay area with a cool down coming on monday. Concord at 96, san jose at 97 with 93 at santa rosa. The Santa Clara County has reversed course and canceled an order that would have allowed indoor gatherings beginning monday. The chief executive for the county that happens to be a medical doctor said that indoor gatherings should be banned statewide and said the current approach is not working. That clearly has not worked. Reporter the Santa Clara County executive officer dr. Geoffrey smith the approach delete every county to decide what is best for them is failing. We need the state to uniformly do something dramatic to stop the spread. Reporter smith policeif the uncontrollably. The dr. Smith prediction comes as Santa Clara County moves further into stage ii of reopening the economy beginning monday which includes Fitness Studios and gyms. Safety is the primary concern to get things going. No doubt about it, we get it. Face masks, social distancing and disinfecting. Reporter the owner of red dot thickness is san jose will follow all of the guidelines insist the message from smith is painting a picture. It shows me there is as much anxiety at the official level as there is at the community level. I get it, but at the same time we need leadership that will make a solid clear decision. Reporter dr. Smith said county leaders reached out to state officials to suggest a more universal Risk Reduction plan that would impact everyone. However i think at this point they made it clear they are not interested in that right now but hopefully they will get very interested in that soon. Hopefully before it is too late. Hopefully before it is too late. That was maria medina reporting. Dr. Smith said indoor gatherings like Council Meetings and town halls should be canceled. San jose unified teachers signed a letter saying they will not return to the classroom at the start of the school year with over 100 saying that over the last two weeks as the leaders have talked with teachers about reopening, one theme occurs in every conversation. Teachers do not feel it is safe to return to teaching, and a large majority are unwilling to do so at this time. Oakland district released a plan for the new school year and they will start with Virtual Learning with a hybrid model with in Person Learning that could begin soon after. Kpix 5 betty yu has more on the plan and the media push back. Reporter the first day of school will look anything but traditional at the first of the year in the Oakland Unified School district will begin instruction online for four weeks when the schools will be geared up to implement covid19 safety plans. The district intends on introducing faces a blended learning including in person teaching with some online ni. S not an easy want to make because theyre different needs for returning to class for families and staff. Many dont feel comfortable with their students returning to class, and many others want the students back in class. Reporter one special education teacher, mark, does not want to see his teachers back in the classroom. I am not comfortable with any hybrid model. So long as you have contact in an institutional setting you will have spread of covid19. We have to know where the virus is. We have to do mass testing and tracing as the first step. Reporter the district said the timing of the transition will depend on the science and safety. The districtwide survey may found 40 of the families surveyed referred all learning to be virtual. 55 like the hybrid option. That is a halfday school with a halfday of remote learning. The civil and immigrants right group by any means necessary is fighting for free testing. Our communities here in oakland are disproportionately black, latino, immigrant, arab and asian. They have had to endure the worst of covid19 pandemic. Reporter dr. Harvey fienberg is chair of the new Committee Formed by the white house in response to the crisis. The most important thing we can do to make our schools safer is to reduce the presence of the virus in our communities. That was betty yu reporting. The plan is not a done deal in on monday oakland unified will hold a virtual town hall meeting to get feedback from staff about the guidelines and plans. The staff unified recommending city school start in the fall with Distance Learning for most students. They plan on opening gradually with a mix of online and in Person Learning. A final decision is expected july 28, three weeks before classes are set to start. For the latest information on School Reopenings in the bay area check out our special session on our website at kpix. Com backtoschool. Sonoma is the latest bay area county to be added to the covid19 watch list due to a spike in the infection rate likely many new restrictions on indoor businesses coming next week. A look at the bay area counties on the watch list are contra costa, marin, napa, and sonoma with more than half of the counties of the 58 counties on the list. The wait time on testing is ramping up with over 5 million covid19 tests processed and nearly 300,000 came back positive. The strained Testing Capacity and according to kaiser resources are stretched then with turnaround times on results doubling and some lives. But county Health PublicOfficials Say that should not discourage you from getting tested. My daughter planned on coming to visit us i thought it was best to get tested before she makes the decision to visit us. With the pandemic i want to keep myself and the people around me safe. In Santa Clara County nearly a quarter million tested been completed and the counties opening two more free testing sites next week, one in san jose and the other in gilroy. Governor gavin newsom announced nearly 8000 prisoners will be released to try to contain the covid19 outbreak at california prisons, but is it too little, too late . We have the report from san quentin, the site of the largest outbreak. Reporter those advocating for Early Release say it is a step in the right direction but only 100 or so inmates will be released from san quentin. It is clear to all of us in the community surrounding the prison that this was a disaster that really needed attention. Reporter the founder of the guiding rage into power to help san quentin inmates transition into life on the outside. Last week i went to the board and found suitable for release. Reporter in the last eight years 913 graduates, 321 that have been released. Only one came back. Reporter as the governor announces the relief of roughly 8000 inmates statewide not one grip graduate was granted Early Release at this point which includes lowlevel offenders with 180 days or less to serve in their sentence. There are also those at risk of covid related complications. We evalua every prisoner fol the path of rehabilitation, nonviolent, nonsex offender, nonserious offenders, so that they have a place to go. Reporter the councilman covering the county feels it too long to take action where at san quentin over 600 inmates are infected with the coronavirus the infection surged in april. This is very late coming to this, but it is something that must be done. Reporter those that have connections to inmates serving at san quentin agreed that many describe the dire conditions with inadequate medical care. My dearest friend and a mentor of mine is on a ventilator right now. Reporter some inmates may already have the virus at the time of release and will be quarantined. While it does raise concern for community spread, state Lawmakers Said the outbreak cannot be contained within the prison walls. Our prisons is and is not sealed from the community and if we have a massive outbreak of covid 19 in the prisons it will actually spread into the community at large. Reporter at san quentin, andrea kakano, kpix 5. Most of those 8000 inmates are expected to be released by the end of august. President trump commuted the sentence of longtime friend and political ally roger stone. The move last night came a few days before stone was scheduled to report to prison. We have more from our cbs reporter skyler henry. Reporter President Trump signing executive clemency for roger stone before his sentence was commuted late friday was scheduled to report for prison d the atement announcing the move the white house called the move unjust for the prison sentence of his conviction. I can now pursue the two appeals i have filed on my conviction. Reporter as President Trump left the white house on friday he repeated what he said for months about his longtime friend i think roger stone was very unfairly treated. Reporter he added while roger stone was the victim of unfair prosecution that guilty people go on unpunished. Like james comey, joe biden and obama, we topped them spying on my campaign for. Reporter there were charges related to the interference in the 2016 election and even as the government criticized the prosecution, attorney general william barr said it was fair that the 40 month prison sentence was appropriate. Those that help convict stone said it was the opposite and there was the highest pressure from the Justice Department to go easy. Reporter after the arrest last year stone describes the prosecution as clinically motivated and said that he would stand by the president. I think he is doing a great job. Reporter skyler henry, cbs news washington. Earlier on friday House Speaker nancy pelosi acted to reports that the president was about to grant clemency to stone. I am recommending we pass a law that presents cannot issue a pardon if the crime that the person is in jail for is one that is caused by protecting the president , which this was. It is appalling. Last night in a written statement the white house announced what they described as overzealous prosecutors that convicted stone on process based charges. Coming up, the San Francisco zoo has good news for those that want to see the animals again and a reopening that was delayed is about to happen. Japanese baseball fans can watch their team in person but new rules on restrictions due to the pandemic. The San Francisco zoo will be allowed to reopen on monday but will have to follow through with the approved safety plan. Current members will be the first to access online reservations and all tickets must be purchased online. The zoo was initially supposed to reopen on june 29 with Indoor Dining but the mayor reversed course after rise in cases. We start out this saturday morning by showing you how gorgeous it looks out there right now with very few clouds. We have a few at the coast but for everybody else we all waking up to clear skies. Heres the view of Treasure Island back toward the city. Here is the view from the top of the Salesforce Tower looking back toward the golden gate bridge. That has atop the sutro tower. As we take the camera looking to the west you see more low clouds coming in from the coast and a few behind the golden gate bridge. Take a look at the bridge from sales force back over sutro. We have low clouds hugging the coastline which is a classic set up for us. Those low clouds are just coming over and keeping temperatures anywhere near the coasttypical for this time of the year, right where we should be in the 60s. Low 60s along the water and mid 60s today in the city. Inland is a total different story. There is not enough of this getting far enough inland to have any impact. Instead the numbers for a lot of the inland locations today will be up near mid to upper 90s. Oakland at 55, 59 and livermore, 60 at san jose was santa rosa looking at 50. We are actually going to do okay in the south bay. We will be in the mid to upper 80s today. Santa clara at 86, 89 in campbell, and here is morgan hill at 95. Going to the inland side of contra costa and Alameda County we see numbers in the upper 90s with brentwood 99, and some numbers coming in higher perhaps in some of the hotter spots. We will likely see one or two hundreds register on the monitor today. Oakland at 75 which is not that far, 3 degrees warmer than average. We dont notice much of a warm up in the bay or on the coast was santa rosa at 93. The numbers in the far north bay are going up to 98. That is saturday and sunday is pretty identical. These are two of the hotter days of this whole sevenday period. Monday things will get better. If we dont have clouds off the coast right now most of Northern California staying clear until late sunday in the afternoon. As we advanced this watch it work its way down the coast. Monday morning more of an onshore flow as we wake up monday with more clouds in the bay. That is how we will cool down, and we will see that in the 7 day forecast. Numbers coming back down from 100 today to 90 on monday. That is still warm but will feel a lot better. Meanwhile, how much of a change does that have . Not a lot because we did not warm up much at the bay or the coast and those temperatures wont change a lot when that onshore flow comes back. Its really the inland locations that will feel the big swing, this weekend in particular. Todays numbers are not much hotter than yesterday but they will not budge until we get to monday. You talked about how nice the sunrise was this morning. As i was driving in just after 5 00 i noticed a group of photographers taking pictures of the bay bridge in that time before the sunrise. Thats nice. Thats when that sky is the indigo, deep blue and purple, pretty cool. I would love to see what they got from this. The japanese baseball fans returning to the states with a few thousand turning up for the games outside of tokyo. Each game at 50 capacity or 25,000 fans, which other number is smaller. They must have their temperature taken entering the ballpark. They had a delayed season three weeks ago first playing with empty stadiums. That country sees a relatively low number of deaths from the pandemic, about 1000 so far. Coming up, p producer in hot water for some customers and what the company ceo said in the white house rose garden. I am john ramis and in san some prominent latinos are calling for a boycott of ochoa foods, after what he said in the rose garden President Trump. He said we are all blessed to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder. The former democratic president Julian Castro said that ochoa foods has been in the households of latinos for generations. Americans should think twice before buying the products. The marin county townie of san anselmo documenting life during the pandemic with an eye toward helping future generations. John ramos shows us how the effort works. When you think about it, everything we know about our past we only know because somebody left something behind to remember it by. Reporter much of the early history of life in san anselmo is provided by the old san anselmo harold but when they examined the paper archives they only find two mentions of the entire 1918 flu pandemled 5 worldwide, and nothing about how we decided not to let that happen this time and to get some firsthand stories. Reporter the Town Historical CommissionPublic Library or soliciting from the public photos with a short paragraph documenting life during the covid19 pandemic. One shows the deserted downtown during a dog walk while another captures the nightly apm, 8 00 p. M. Howell for the health care workers. The librarian said if this was available during 1918 it might make the current struggle a bit easier. If we could see our fore fathers and mothers really kind of buckled down and did it, and they got through it, maybe that wouldve given us a little more, okay, we can get through this pandemic. Reporter it came on quick with no warning and we are just beginning to imagine how far reaching it will be in our lives, so documenting the journey will be important when all of this becomes part of history as well. I think those reminders are timeless. Weather 1918 or 2020 or in 100 years from now, i think those messages are always important for us to know that we can do this. That we can get through this together. Reporter preserving the past gives us a roadmap for the future. While we have no idea where that may be taking us, at least we will know where we have been. From san anselmo, john ramis, kpix 5. Another single day record for coronavirus