Oure further pushing back the date when our city can open. If conditions do not improve, the city may close additional activities and businesses. Im at the live news december desk and monitoring the sentencing for john lee cow el, the man who stabbed to death the man at the bart station and family members saying you took our baby. John lee cowell was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The guilty found him guilty of premeditated murder ofth sister. She said shell never forgive him for stabbing her sister and watching her stand there and suffer and scream until she died. Life without parole, thats justice. Im thankful raab two hours in march. Cowel was absent for most of the trial after several outbursts in court. His defense claimed he was insane, the judge decided to issue a directed verdict ruling their client was sane at the time of the attack and would serve his sentence in a state prison. Cowel has the right to appeal this and he questioned the judge toward the end of the hearing today, which did indicate he will likely try to appeal. Back to you. Anne, thank you. We brought your reaction from nia wilsons family streaming on the cbsn bay area. Stay updated by going to kpix. Com. The Supreme Court justice said her cancer returned again. In a statement ginsburg said shes receiving treatment for her liver and will receive chemo twice a week. The 87yearold has zero plans to retire from the high court. On a fire watch, brush fire north of vacville 80 contained after burning 20acres. It started after all evacuation orders are lifted. Making progress on a grass fire burning a role area of livermore and scorched more than 250acres as it started last night. At last check, it was 75 contained. Mineral fire off highway 198 has grown to more than 19,000 acres and in Fresno County and 30 contained. A weekend warmup and mary o hi, len. We have temperatures on the rise looking ahead to the weekend. Right now you can see that clearing on our charger island camera in the mid 60s, San Francisco and oakland in the mid 70s for concord looking at about 80 degrees warming up in livermore, upper santa rosa and 12 Miles Per Hour winds in Half Moon Bay and 9 in San Francisco and oakland, 23 Miles Per Hour winds in fairfield and 13 for napa. As we head through the day, we are looking at our temperatures near normal for this time of year. Around the coast 86 in concord and 87 in San Francisco. We go through our afternoon and were catching that clearing and sunshine as well for inner locations around the bay and some cloud cover along the coast. For some, we are looking at more sunshine heading through saturday after starting off our day with low clouds and fog along the coast and on the day with inland spots and temperatures warmer for saturday and for sunday. High pressure builds in for us and thats your look at the extended forecast warming up into the weekend slightly cooler for next week. Back to you. Governors News Conference is underway. Lets listen in live to that. The state of california with dr. Gally youll hear from in a moment, a father of four to so many members of our staff that chdren getting back to our school, getting quality education, and allowing us as parents to get back to work where we are able to and to make sure that were attending as we anticipate this time every year to so many other responsibilities as parents and caregivers. So today, i want to talk about what were putting out in terms of guidance and guidelines for education in the state of california in the context of covid19. Well go through a list of specific recommendations, specific guidance as well as updating you as we do on all the latest information with Positivity Rates and hospitalization rates and icus in the state. Well begin first with foundational frame work and that is our bottom line. That learning in the state of california simply nonnegotiable. Schools must, i underscore must provide meaningful instruction during this pandemic whether theyre physically opened, the schools, or not. Thats what i want to talk about specifically today. Our students, our teachers, staff, and certainly parents, we all prefer in classroom instructions for all the obvious reasons, social and emotionally foundation. Only, only if it can be done safely as a parent. I believe that and its someones responsibility to help support education of six plus named kids in the state of california. Have the backs of our staff, our teachers, school nurses, counselors, guidance staff, principals, bus drivers, janitors. All of the folks that are responsible for the care taking, the safety and the health of our children. We have to have their backs as well including obviously the preciousness that is our children and the kids in our education system. Safety is foundational and safety will ultimately make the determination of how we go about educating our kids as we move into the fall and we work our way through this pandemic. Here is the five principles we are laying out in terms of pandemic plan for schools in the state of california. Number one, safe in Person School. Based again if theyre in Person School based upon local health data and ill walk through that bullet point in more detail in a moment. New mask requirements that we are putting forth today. Some clarification and some constructive guidance on physical distancing and other adaptations we expect to see within the School Setting and were putting out specific guidance as it relates to testing and Contact Tracing in our School System and what we mean by Distance Learning and the word regulars is foundational if were going to will, to makewe address equity, the divide, and its quality. Its rigorous Distance Learning. Lets talk number one. Using data, using the foundational data that we have laid out county by county all throughout the state of california. We are now putting forth guidelines at schools can physically open for in Person Education when the county theyre operating in has been off our monitoring list for 14 consecutive days. If youve tuned into the daily briefing, youre very familiar with the monitoring list. Ill be updating that list later in the presentation today. We are now putting forth guidelines that say based on the sed baoud, commy spad of e choose to ph openyour schools. However schools that dont meet this requirement, they must begin the school year this fall through Distance Learning. Number two, im going to get to that in a moment. Number two, were putting forth new mask requirements in the state. All school staff and students, all staff and students in third grade and above must wear masks. Students in the second grade or below, we strongly encourage Wearing Masks and face shields. Caregivers when he first saw masks, recoiled and a lot of caregivers have face shields and you can see their expressions and their humanity, and thats why we put guidance out as it related to masks and face shields as well. Our third frame of guidance were putting forth today is around physical distancing and as we mentioned, other adaptations and on the physical distancing side, we believe that its incumbent upon staff to maintain a 6foot distance between each other and themselves and the students. We believe that the school day should start with symptom checks, meaning temperature checks. We have robust expectations around hand washing stations, sanitation deep sanitation, deep disinfection efforts, and that many schools have along the lines of adaptations have quarantine protocols and i want to talk a little bit more in a moment about these continuity of plans with each school responsible about putting forth and relates to issues of testing. Theres a requirement that we test on a rotating basis, a cohort of staff on a consistent basis. We are bringing to the School System to the benefit and support of the ten plus thousand contact tracers here in the partnership with ucsf and ucla with a backbone in a data base that now oranged a collective and well want to turn our Contact Tracing where its been very effective in these School Environments can be very effective in mitigating the spread and trying to understand exactly where and how the spread had advanced and how its obviously to isolate and quarantine cohorts of not only children but staff as it relates to mitigating that spread further. It relates to Distance Learning as i said, rigorous. Access to devices is one thing and connectivity is foundational. In a moment, ill talk about the money we have put up to allow for districts to purchase new devices to get the connectivity that our students need to address the gap as it relates to the digital divide. We want daily live interactions with students and teachers. Students connecting peer to peer and teachers connecting daily on an interactive frame to advance our Distance Learning. We had a lot of experience that came through the spring this year. We reviewed a lot of the fits and starts related to quality access issues of points of consideration, concern, we share add lot of best practices. No one is going to deny that based upon the early levels and some of it worked more effectively in certain parts of the state than others. Clearly, we have work to do to make sure that we have foundation and expectations that we have minimum expectations in terms of quality and connectivity and access to devices that are foundational in terms of providing for quality and Distance Learning. Our environment where assignments are equivalent in terms of what youd otherwise get and im not naive and again, we stipulate the social Emotional Learning in class that is a default and its our bias that under the circumstances with the spread of this virus and ill get to that spread in a moment. And well want to do our best to create some sensitive equivalency is the obvious constraints that is Distance Learning and we also want to make sure were also mindful of our students that are homeless, our students that are in foster care, kids in the system and kids with english as a second language and learning disabilities and those that have special needs and the like. Look, that foundation is laid or was laid rather with the legislature and strong support weve received from the legislature when we put forth the package on equity that was approved. That package includes 5. 3 billion to deal with learning loss that was associated with some of the closures last year. Very, very focused of intentional and meeting the needs of those again that fall into those categories of special needs in our additional funding and additional equity and its not the line or cash threat and promote a view and were subsubstantiately putting resources in half to advancing that point of view. The question asked or rather being asked is, all right, once our school is open, what happens if the spread goes in to the classroom setting or in a district setting or if the sp inundated and soe puts forth some criteria that we are setting forth. Again, these are brackets and within these brackets, well work through with the county with all the conditions and recognizing the nuances of the gray areas that are part of a system as large as ours so that a thousand School Districts here in the state of california in addition to all of these county superintendents and all of these districts in cities and counties and jurisdictional trifoliate criteria and make this is in terms of expectation and consulting with Public Health expert and if a cohort has to go home because of a confirmed case. If a School Goes Home with multiple cohorts that have cases or we stipulate 5 of the school, local school, not district, local school is positive, then it would trigger criteria to consider closing, mandate rather. Closure of that school site. However, one school does not make a district. Depending on the size and scale of your district, this could be multiple schools or just a few schools. If they have similar cohort case loads, we then have a stipulation here mandate that if 25 of the schools that compose the district have positivity cases that reach that threshold, they need to be closed within a 14 day period. Thats the foundation that were laying out today on Public Education guidance. As many of you know, we put our guidance in the department of Public Health and local guidance and have cde, the county department of education put out guidance as well. The purpose of today is to try and lean in with health and data perspective in terms of rx perspective in the state of california and expectations mandate with the state and each part of the state is unique, each part is distinctive and some counties on the monitoring list for good reason and others are not for uniquely good reason and not seeing the consequence and able to do the in Person Education. Even those that are currently on the monitoring list, we hope and expect as we mitigate the spread of this disease theyll fall off that monitoring list and entities on council of Public Health officials to make that determination as to what chil. T for their children and education broadly is absolutely about our kids. But we cannot deny the fact that we have hundreds of thousands of adults that are responsible to taking care and educating our kids as well and their health has to be considered as well. I just offer that as a parent that is someone with understanding for our teachers, principals, janitors, bus drivers and others. I am entrusted to be accountable and responsible to their health as well as the health of my children and your children and our children, our future. So thats the frame work that were putting on today on education. Of course ill happily answer any questions that we have and the head of the california board of education. Also Available Online for those of you who wish to ask her any questions and are not only the head of health and Human Services but pediatrician themselves is available for questions and can talk a little bit more about his own personal experience for children as well and his expectations moving forward. First i want to just quickly run through what i began with or end what i began with again that learning remains nonnegotiable but neither is the safety of all of our cohorts of support staff as well as our children. Here are todays number and you become familiar with the seven day average and become important of the epithet ick rise and fall of the number of case counts as it relates to total number of cases that are positive. We tested 129,000 people on july 16. Youll see the number, 9, 986 individuals tested positive for covid19. That seven day average at 8,838. Youll see the Positivity Rate has the slides you see here represent a 14 day period and 7. 4 are averaging 124,000 tests on a daily basis and we have blown past the goal of 80,000. We constitute our Testing Task Force and i want to make this crystal clear, our goal is to increase testing in the state of california but do so with a different intensity of focus which dr. Gally laid out on tuesday. I want to see those numbers and those average daily test numbers continue to climb and they are continuing and ill remind you it wasnt that long ago, 100 or so days ago were averaging 2,000 tests a day and now 124,000 tests a day. Well see all of the external challenging and be more resourceful and we as a state are more than capable of figuring out how we can navigate some supply Chain Shortages and some other constraints highlighted over the course of the next few weeks. Positivity rate, 7. 4 over 14 day period. That represents about a 7. 3 increase over the 14 day period. As you can see hospitalizations and you can see hospitalization numbers increase in the state of california, about a 20 increase over the increase looking for the 14 day period. 6,808 individuals are currently covid19 positive patients in our current healthcare system. Represents about 9. 2 of the total number of hospital beds that thousand have an identified covid19 positive patient. That was about 9 when i shared this slide with you on this slide with you on monday so its increasing but at a rate with the Current System in the aggregate it extends to the issues of icu, about 15 over the two week period. Now 11,940 individuals admitted into the icus and 16. 6 of the total number of patients in our total population around our total asset based on icus and nicu beds, 11,711. Thats holding about 16 which i presented these slides to you on monday. Still more than 10,000 ventilators available but again, this is in the aggregate and statewide doesnt represent whats happening at the local level and at the ground level. Thats the purpose of this slide. To talk about the counties on our monitoring list. 32 counties likely 33. Were monitoring two our two others and i expect to anticipate a county or two thats sort of two days likely to be on the third day. People fall off and they come back on. 32 counties currently on the monitoring list. 58 counties in the state of california. 32 counties represented on this monitoring list. That number is held fairly steady. 29 or so last week, the end of the week and this week the start of the week around 32. People coming on and people coming off. These are the counties of most concern. If i broke this down and whats happening youll see higher utilization in those three counties specifically of ventilators. Youll see other parts of the state like napa and others that dont necessarily have a lot of remaining you heard from Governor Newsom with an update on coronavirus and the plans for sc