Right think of they were smart enough to close the perimeters two parked cars and just limit the areas of which solicitors can sell their wares. Reporter embarcadero and lakeshore the intersection of crowd control and virus control. The city ambassadors personally addressing safety concerns. We have free masks available through the city of oakland. Were out here giving anybody masks, making sure they are social distancing, everything, staying healthy. Reporter the citys name for the strategy is give the lake a break, and it will continue for the foreseeable future. I think everyone in oakland wants everyone to be able to enjoy the lake, enjoy the beautiful weather, and hopefully not get sick in the process. Reporter in oakland, wilson walker, kpix 5. Lets take a live look at outside. Beautiful day across the area, with some areas hitting triple digits. All those pretty pictures some oakland today. Oakland kind of got off the hook as for the heat with concern. Look at the map over my shoulder. Colorcoded pilgreen at the coast tell you it was in the 60s. Purple on the right side of your screen shows you where the hundreds were, and thats really where the issue is. Theres oakland going to anyone. You can see san jose went to 91. Those numbers are run, dont get me wrong, but the real focus for the intense heat this weekend is inland. Walnut creek at 101, pleasanton 98, san ramon 98, theres the 100 paper brentwood, concord went to 100 to. If we do the comparison, how do these numbers relate to what average would be . Now you see the story. Its a lot warmer than average and thenit is in the immediate bay. Thats where the heat was felt. We had together one more day like this. Tomorrow might even be a little bit harder for some of those locations that are inland Contra Costa County. By monday its going to get better. I will show you that and show you everyones daytime highs for tomorrow, and the complete forecast coming up in just a few minutes before now guys, back over to you. Contra costa county sing a sharp spike in coronavirus cases. Officials say more than 8 of tests are now coming back positive. The seven day average of new cases in the county rose from 38 to 146 in just a month. So officials amended their health order. They banned indoor gatherings where there is an elevated risk of spreading the virus. That includes banning Indoor Church Services starting tomorrow at midnight. And members of extended families now have to always use Face Coverings one together. Restaurant owners and Alameda County say they are getting mixed messages. The state wants to suspend Outdoor Dining, but the local Health Department has not put out a clear directive. Kpix 5s da lin and down to livermore with the confusion and what businesses are doing. Reporter all the downtown restaurants are ignoring the new state guidelines, chairs, tables, out all the streets. They say they are technically not breaking the law. This is really going insane. Theres no way we can just like shutdown and throw away food, money. Reporter a nice, warm day for a glass of wine in east bay. Many restaurants in clementon and livermore continue to offer Outdoor Dining. We can continue until the actual directive to enforce comes through, which could be monday or tuesday. Reporter rochelle with livermore downtown, the local Business Association says until Alameda County bans Outdoor Dining which it has not, they view the new state guidelines as an advisory. I was really proud of them to say we dont have an order. Lets not do a kneejerk reaction. Reporter even though the city of livermore sent out a statement saying they will not to get any businesses, many worry the state will come in and cite them. They point to the abc agency went to some businesses down to the south bay. Talk to you at insult to injury after insult to injury. I mean, weve got staff year. Got to lay them off again . Are you kidding me . We got a pp loan which is about run out. We need business. We need to be open. Rather Michalak Connor is debating whether or not to shutdown his restaurant patio in alameda. He heard about the state advisory but has heard nothing from the county of city of alameda. The city just restriped park and webster streets this week to encourage Outdoor Dining and shopping. Reporter many Business Owners on the island are holding off. Now were being forced to move backwards. Its extremely frustrating. Very disappointing. Very sad that we have to go back to square one. Reporter us for pleasanton and livermore, the local Business Associations tell restaurants Outdoor Dining should be okay, at least for this weekend. That confusion really adds a lot of stress to the Business Owners because we have to plan. Reporter the Alameda CountyHealth Department is apply for a variance from the state i will give it special permission to continue Outdoor Dining. In livermore, im da lin. Kpix 5. Sonoma is the latest the area county to join the states covid19 watch list because of a spike in infection rate. So that will likely mean llnew restrictions on into our businesses next week. On monday, Santa Clara County slides into phase two of reopening. That means gyms, hair, and nail salons, outdoor pools, and a number of businesses can open their doors. But the loosened rules, Santa Clara County sees a rise in covid19 cases. Officials say in the last two weeks, almost 2000 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus. Among them, 116 hospitalized. They are members of our community who are seriously ill, and several may even die. They are our neighbors and our friends. After signaling that families would have a choice whether to do in person or online learning, the Santa Clara CountySchool District is scaling those plans back. Now, all students are going to start the Upcoming School year with Distance Learning because of a spike in cases. And members of the Oakland Teachers Union are worried about the School Districts safety plan. Oakland unified plans to start up with four weeks of online learning, and then schools would introduce blended learning, which mixes in person and online. But members of the Teachers Union says the plan fails to outline exactly how to keep everybody safe. Its very sort of general on the safety question. There is more detail on their sort of phases of learning, which is fine, but like we cant get to those phases until we have a safe condition to return to. The plan is not a done deal. On monday, oakland unified will hold a virtual town hall meeting to get feedback from families and staff about the plan. Another major issue facing schools across california. The federal governments threat to slash funding if they dont reopen fast enough, but as kpix 5s devin fehely reports, the California School board Association Says they wont budge. We share the president s urgency to resume schools, but not at any cost. We dont want to resume on campus instruction until it can be done safely and effectively. Reporter its the large, looming question for hundreds of thousands of parents across california and the country. Will students be returning in person to classrooms at the start of the new school year this fall . Joyfully to the California School board Association Says districts may be in a rush to reopen. Before they are actually ready. Do they have enough staff to spread students out and more classrooms . That requires more teachers. Do you have enough staff to clean multiple times a day . Deep cleaning, which is much more intensive and exhaustive than the normal custodial services. Reporter several School District of unveiled plans for the fall. They run the gamut from and classroom learning to online to a mix of the two. But flint cautioned that many teachers are older and therefore more vulnerable to the virus. Roughly a third of our teachers are 50 or older, so that is a great number of adults who are at risk, and thats before you even consider those who have medical conditions as well. And what is going to happen once you have a few cases . You are likely going to have to shut down again. Reporter schools are under mounting pressure to reopen in the fall. President trump has threatened the funding of districts that dont open their doors, but flint says we should not put politics ahead of the safety of students. And teachers. Just saying you want to restart School Without putting the proper measures in place to make that successful is wistful, magical thinking. We need more than rhetoric and security theater. We need real, reliable systems in place. Reporter devin fehely, kpix 5. For all the latest information in School Reopenings in the bay area, check out the special section on our website, kpix. Com backtoschool. Another covid19 outbreak in a nursing home where 5 people at dina knightly 66 residents and staff are infected with the virus. Most of them are residents of marin postacute. 170 bed nursing home in san rafael is one of 16 Nursing Homes or care facilities in marin county that have coronavirus cases took local Officials Say most of marin county nursing home outbreaks happen because and asymptomatic staff member brought the virus into the facility. Onto the fire watch. San jose fire crews have gotten a handle on a 31 acre blaze that sparked in the hills above alum rock. The blaze broke out hours off ago off of Mount Hamilton and crothers road. The crews quickly got it under control with an aggressive attack from the sky. Its isolated up your, so the access is difficult, the roads can be difficult, and when you have homes mixed in in interface here, youve got to account for those and protect those as a priority to stop the spread of the fire. The National Weather service shot this time lapse of the smoke billowing up over the san jose skyline. Crews are still out mopping up the hot spots, but the fire is contained. Coming up, a lyft driver attacked. The simple request that led to this violent confrontation. The new push tonight to get drivers off the road as more bay area counties ease restrictions. And have you filed your taxes yet . If you havent, here are some important things you need to know about. You will hear this virus is testing all of us. And its testing the people on the front lines of this fight most of all. So abbott is getting new tests into their hands, delivering the critical results they need. And until this fight is over, we. Will. Never. Quit. Because they never quit. In san joaquin county, the city of lodi is expecting a pretty big crowd this week, despite coronavirus concerns. Gun fans are expected to attend the lodi got expo. Organizers say the manufacture and sale of firearms and ammunition is all considered essential business under Homeland Security guidelines. They say they are going to offer hand sanitizers to attendees and will encourage physical distancing , and there will be fewer vendors. Talk about a nightmare ride for a lyft driver. He was punched by a passenger who then try to spit on him. The attack apparently started when she refused to wear a face mask inside his car. Reporter Candace Crone has this video. Aaah reporter dash cam video kept a lyft driver getting pummeled by a passenger. Pedro kubiak says it all started after he picked the woman up on rosecrans and crenshaw in corns last month and noticed she was not wearing a mask. When he asked her to put one on, he said things escalated from there. He took her to the destination it said on the app. She was already mad because of the map, so she got more mad because a purely the location he took her was not the one she ever trusted, but when he looked on the app, the map that was the location. Reporter he did not Start Recording the commotion after until after the womans refused to put on a Face Covering and shouted. He reached for his charger in the backseat. Dont [ bleep ] touch me reporter in the video, you can see the man allegedly spit toward the man. With the ongoing pandemic, he and his wife are now worried about his health. Hopefully she was not positive, he does not come up positive, as well as other Health Conditions now. Is having problem with his eye, headache. Reporter in a statement, lyft said the behavior shown in this video was unacceptable and has no place on the lyft platform. Upon learning of the incident, we were removed the right of the Lyft Community but the Committee Said is room operating with the authorities. Pedro kubia that he decided to speak out and hope that no other driver has does not have to go through what he went through. Reporter reporting in south l. A. , Candace Crone, kpix 5. A live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. This copy says the traffic is creeping back to creep pre covid times. Local air quality regulars are trying to prevent that from happening. They launched a pledge to cut the commute. So to avoid scenes like that . The air district is asking companies to extend remote work options for at least a quarter of employees who can work from home. Santa clara county is signing onto the pledge. Regulators say it will keep cars off the road, and that means cleaner air for everybody. Darren, have you tried to give Comet Neowise . Have you taken a look. Its too early were you just roaming out there . About an hour before sunrise, but i could not spot it. I think there is too much marine haze in the year, but the pictures i have seen of neowise are pretty amazing. I have too. Its almost inspiring enough to make you want to get up. I worked the morning show, and i still cant get a. Why wont you look at . I know you would report on it, or doerun. Darren, whats ahead in the weather . Disguise have been clear for it, but the clear skies have not been go for the temperatures, so i will go back to that story. Danville, 101 today. Dublin 98, santa rosa 96, san anselmo 96, sunnyvale 91, san mateo 98. I spotlighted some of the extremes of the newscast, but i want to get as many of you covetous i can just to show you what this day was like that you can see the spread from danvilles 100 want to san mateos 88. All right, that is today. Lets look ahead. Tomorrow morning slows bring us back down into the mid 50s. 55 for oakland, 50 livermore, San Francisco 54. Lets get everyones daytime highs on your. Here is the thing about tomorrow. It is a little hotter than today. Not much you probably wont notice it done here in san jose or for much of the south. Fremont, you will go to 84 is pretty close to where were you today. Concord 100, technically you had 100 2. 134 brentwood, 90 livermore. Basically, how it felt to you today . Tomorrow is going to repeat a. Oakland, not so bad. Its warm. We hit 81 in oakland today. I got us78 tomorrow. 90 paper santa rosa tomorrow, and the farther inland you go, into mendocino county, weve got hundreds coming back. Heres how were going to change this. What weve had for the last few days, including all the clear skies we were talking about a moment go . There is no marine layer other. That is live suddenly looking at the last three hours. So lets which no. Lets put it into futurecast, plant forward, and you will see just a little bit of a sliver begin to redevelop, and watch the low gray slink down the coast that says monday morning. Streamlined is show you the onshore search turns back on, and the futurecast is show you were going to pull the marine layer back into the immediate bay by monday. That means if your along the coast immediate bay, the sky gets grayer, but the temperatures dont change a whole lot for you. If you are inland, they will. This is what we need to get the temperatures down, and you will see it in the sevenday forecast. Look at the top line. These are inland numbers. 100 again tomorrow, 90 on monday. It is kind of funny to think we now see monday as 90 as a break and some relief. It will feel better. Still going to be warm, but its going to be a lot better than the 100 youve had, we will keep you there. Low 90s to the rest of the sevenday forecast, look at the numbers for the bay and the coast. 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