Distancelearning since march concurs. Why cant we do this safely and in a way that our children are getting educated better . Again, its not working for some of these kids. They are not getting the right education that i think that they need. Mac it isnt just parents were students needed to make a schoolwork. We have to have students and employees on campus in order to return to in person instruction. Reporter getting teachers on board could be a tough sell. With these kids, they live with people. They live with people who could spread it or are likely to spread it. Reporter the safety gap in palo alto has been bridged by the safety gap by the district and teachers. We want to make sure that the families and teachers are safe. This is one measure to create assurances for our families and doing our large part to support the community. So how are other stays cities and states supporting these reopenings have there been hiccups . Too the stanford pediatrician we spoke to said the most important thing to reopen schools is location and positivity rates in counties when its time to reopen those schools. In boston massachusetts they reopen schools on october 1st this year and were closed them again because of increase in case rates. It is a very flexible and fluid situation as we know. One minute the county is doing well and the next minute cases are spiking again. All right, thank you. Marin Catholic High School is suspending in Person Learning over the next two weeks after School Leaders discovered there was at least one large student party. No one has tested positive but the school isnt taking any chances. The schools principal released a letter to parents saying in part, hosting a large party in particular, it is a grave breach of trust and the spirit of community that has allowed us to reopen in person. We want to get your thoughts on this given what we know about the coronavirus. Do you think its time for schools to reopen . Weigh in on facebook or on twitter with the hashtag kpix and we might share some of your comments later on. Napa county has moved into the orange tier of reopening. Restaurants are allowed to be begin serving customers a 50 capacity. Wineries could serve with a 25 limit. Tasting rooms could fill up to 55 . Religious services will be allowed at 50 . Changes in Alameda County which moved into the orange tier last week. Friday, businesses will be allowed to reopen, indoor dining, worship, movie theaters, and indoor gyms will all be able to operate at 25 capacity. However, all businesses in napa and Alameda County must adhere to covid19 guidelines such as facemasks and social distancing. For a look at whats open and whats not in your county go to kpix. Com. Taking a live look outside right now, dry gusty wind will blow into the bay area. A red flag warning will take effect triggering another round of blackouts in a matter of hours. Over the last hour, shutoffs will begin in parts of the east bay starting at one in the morning. Pockets in Santa Clara County will begin losing power at 3 00 a. M. But the majority of the safety shutoffs will be in north bay starting at 4 00 a. M. Our chief meteorologist is tracking the extreme fire conditions for us. We expect the offshore wind to kick in and strengthen. For the moment the wind isnt that strong. Theres the onshore component but in upper elevation that will shift. We have the dry gusty wind. Its plenty dry outside with relative humidity levels running into the 5020 range where it is lowest with pockets where its not as bad but the humidity wont recover very much going through this evening and into tonight so the dry conditions will be problematic and lead to the rapid spread of the fires that could get going. We hope that that doesnt happen. The red flag warning returned this evening continuing to 8 00 on friday morning with sustained wind around 1020 miles per hour. The humidity in the higher terrain is remaining below 30 . There is good news in the forecast, and Cool Temperatures begin tomorrow. We will talk about that coming up. Breaking news, moments ago the fbi announcing iran and russia obtained voter information and Voter Registration data from the United States in part of an effort to interfere with our upcoming election. The investigator said iran sent out threatening emails with false information to confuse registered voters inside social unrest and damage President Trump. Additionally, iran is distributing other content to include a video that implies that individuals could cast fraudulent ballots, even from overseas. This video in any claim about such allegedly fraudulent ballots arent true. These actions are desperate attempts by desperate adversaries. The fbi director christopher efforts to interfere with elections you should be confident that your vote counts and says if you receive a threatening email to ignore it. A top intel official says that the u. S. Will impose cost and consequences on those involved. Now to campaign 2020 and former president barack obama in the spotlight stepping in for his former Vice President in philadelphia. He didnt hold back delivering a blistering rebuke of President Trump to a socially distant drivein rally. I never thought donald trump would embrace my vision or continue my policies but i did hope, from the sake of the country, that he might show some interest in taking the job seriously. It hasnt happened. He hasnt shown any interest in doing the work or helping anyone but himself and his friends were treating the presidency like a reality show that he could use to get attention. The rest of us have had to live with the consequences of improving himself incapable of taking the job seriously. We literally left this white house it pandemicplaybook that would have shown them how to respond before the virus reached our shores. They probably used it to, i dont know, prop up a wobbly table somewhere. We dont know where this playbook went. Donald trump isnt suddenly going to protect all of us. You cant even take the basic steps to protect himself. Challenger joe biden is off the campaign trail today opting to prepare for the final president ial debate tomorrow in nashville tennessee. Instead, his running mate Kamala Harris is touring North Carolina tonight. A live look at President Trumps rally where thousands are packed in front of the stage. He painted a much rosier picture of this pandemic. All you hear is covid, covid, covid. There trying to scare everyone. You know, the more testing you have, the more cases. They say cases are up, yeah, testing is a. Normalize, we will fully resume. Next year, it will be the greatest economic year in the history of our country. Looking live at the rally again, President Trump is tied or trailing with joe biden in every major battleground state and won in 2016 and is now pushing hard to regain momentum. Still ahead on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. A dramatic rescue on a San Francisco cliff. How it took crews in the air and on the water to get one man into safety. The popes i need a smaller house thats close to my son, but thats tough to do on a fixed income. Id be hit with a tax penalty for moving to another county, so im voting yes on prop 19. It limits property taxes and lets seniors transfer their homes current tax base to another home thats closer to family or medical care. Being closer to family is important to me. How about you . Voting yes on prop 19. They all endorse yes on prop 25. To end unfair, unjust, discriminatory money bail. Governor gavin newsom and van jones. Theyre voting yes on 25. The western center on law and poverty. The Dolores Huerta foundation. Californians for safety and justice. And the California Democratic party. They all agree that the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. So, vote yes on prop 25. 5 00, a sign in the east bay meant to get people talking is stirring up deep emotion. A Police Officers wife is speaking out. Juliette goodrich is live in livermore with this story. Julia. Reporter this sign garden is directly behind me in the heart of downtown livermore, a lot of people walk by this throughout the day. The organizers say the intent was to create a conversation in the community about black lives matter and social injustice and justice in general but recently this created another conversation that has stirred some emotions. Some of them expressed support for black lives matter and some of them are specific , a lot of them are specific to black trans lives. Reporter but it was this sign that is marked sparked emotion. Shes the wife of a Livermore Police sergeant. When signs like that go up it makes their job more dangerous. I dont know if officers feel comfortable openly talking about this and spouses often dont feel couple talking about that, when they do, people dont hear the human side of this. I decided that wasnt okay. Reporter a friend took the sign down but she says it doesnt take away the raw emotion she feels. I think that this sign was interpreted a certain way that it may not have been intended to. Reporter sierra bailey helped organize the sign garden. It literally just said Blue Lives Matter with a lien against it and when i see a sign like that i see a rejection of the phrase Blue Lives Matter which is used to antagonize black lives matter protesters so i dont see a sign like that and say it is antipolice. Law enforcement is very important to me, support the police. Reporter the livermore mayor says it comes down to ones personal interpretation. He said what the sign garden has done is start a conversation and in this case it was a Police Officers wife who decided to speak up and be heard. There are some people i know who are upset about these signs here but this is their interpretation but that interpretation is real. Its the right to express themselves. The whole display and the sign garden is that approved by the city . Reporter isnt city sanctioned but the city knew about it but it happens to be on cityowned property. The organizers and city already had a previous agreement to have those signs removed by this friday but what the organizers intend to do is move these signs to other parts of the area. All right , thank you. Activists accusing the city of san jose of trying to erase the memory of a san jose state student who died mysteriously. The city is paved over a mural calling for justice in the case of gregory johnson. Activists painted this in front of the Fraternity House that johnson was found hanging there in the basement in 2008. The school, the fraternity, they say johnson committed suicide but his parents believe that their son, the only black member of the fraternitys chapter at the time, was murdered. It said justice for gregory johnson. It demands justice for his family, his mother was here while we painted this mural. Its disrespectful for the city of san jose. I think this was a deliberate move to erase what happened here. Activist call for a new investigation into johnsons death. The city did issue a response saying the mural was paved over because the crews are in the middle of repainting lane markings. They said resealing over the street painting isnt a reflection of the citys position on the message but is vital to ensure the safe operation of this roadway. An eerie discovery in san mateo county, chopper 5 over San Bruno Mountain this afternoon where human remains were discovered, crime tape and yellow evidence markers were placed around the area where these bones were found. The Sheriffs Office says it appears they were therefore quite some time. San mateo countys crime lab is looking into who this person was and how they died. A groundbreaking shift at the vatican, pope francis making headlines around the world becoming the first pontiff to endorse unions for samesex couples. I believe that we could make a difference. Im sure. His thoughts on samesex marriage were made public in a new documentary called francesco which made its World Premiere in rome today. Since becoming pope, he has signaled a more tolerant tone to samesex relationships in an apparent break with the position of the Roman Catholic church. His latest remarks have sparked cheers from one side of the bait and calls from clarification from the other. In the documentary the pope said homosexual people have the right to be in a family, they are children of god. You cant kick someone out of a family nor make their life miserable for this. What we have to have is a Civil Union Law that way they are legally covered. I see him as the man of pro life on a global scale. This is specifically him caring about humanity without putting frame or label. Francesco touches upon the popes beliefs on a range of topics including the environment, poverty, and social justice. Paul heggen is here with us coming up. We have a cooling trend. Overall the big picture features in the atmosphere havent shifted in the high pressure, its in control of the weather at is for now. The offshore wind that kicks in, everything goes in clockwise, those will be with us through the end of the workweek but changes as we go closer toward the weekend. A cooler weekend instore. The offshore wind will get weaker, we will see more clouds returning especially from the first half of the weekend on saturday. Between now and then we have to worry about fire danger. Lets check out the fire danger index. Toward the north bay thats where the greatest concern will be. The east bay is included in the red flag warning. Putting the maps in motion you see we start with levels around 0, 1, and 2. On the mountaintops, especially further east within napa county and parts of Solano County as well, those numbers go down a little bit going to the day tomorrow with the wind getting weaker slightly than tomorrow night it looks like we see another period of heightened fire weather conditions in some spots. In the eastern part of napa county and into Solano County. I dont think tomorrow night that the situation will be as favorable for the fires to rapidly spread as what we will see tonight into tomorrow morning. Hopefully could we we could avoid anything from starting in the first place. Temperatures are well into the 80s. 80 degrees in oakland right now. 67 degrees downtown. These might be the warmest temperatures weve seen from the rest of the season. They might be because its 2020. We have to take everything with a giant grain of salt. They are cooler than where they were at this point yesterday. A more noticeable cooldown kicking into the day tomorrow. Starting off in similar territory at 40s from the valley to around 50 degrees. Mostly the middle portion of the 50s. An aboveaverage david temperatures will be as far above the average on thursday. Low to mid 70s around the bay with midsixties on the coast. More of a mix of 70s and 80s farther inland. Warm spots east of the diablo range will begin short of 90 degrees with high temperatures on thursday where we see a cooling step on friday. The coolest days will be saturday and sunday with clouds and sunshine from much of the bay area on saturday. Warming up a little bit with cooler temperatures, we will see another instance of offshore wind kicking in by sunday night into monday but the question is how strong they will be, we will get into the details of that coming up at 5 30. Thousands of firefighters scattered across the state, what about their families at home . I will have in the bay area, we believe in science. Traffic and air pollution will be even worse after the pandemic. Thats why we support measure rr to keep caltrain running. Which is at risk of shutdown because of the crisis. To keep millions of cars off our roads, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. And measure rr helps essential workers like me get to work and keep our communities healthy. Relieve traffic. Reduce pollution. Rescue caltrain. [all] yes on measure rr. In a year that has brought smothering smoke and apocalyptic skies, firefighters are feeling the fatigue and so are their loved ones. Don ford on how some bay area firefighters are handling this particularly terrible fire season. Reporter with the fires across california this year, its put a strain on firefighters across the state but what about their families . This 10yearold has no idea her firefighter father is about to walk through the front door. Josh has been deployed from more than a month and while this emotional loving scene is special, it isnt unique. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed for weeks. Sometimes working beyond cell phone coverage with families never sure when their loved ones will return. You are going to leave your families to defend themselves from at least 14 days because we go anywhere from Southern California to the Plumas National forest, sonoma, napa. Really all over the place. Reporter even though they look after each others families, the strain and sometimes fear is constant at home. The added stress of not knowing if they are in harms way, where are they doing . Where are they . That adds to the stress of the moment. It also sweetens every evening. I was gone from quite a bit. This impacted my family a lot. I was so happy. My heart dropped but i was excited to see him. Reporter don ford, kpix 5. Coming up at 5 30, the special coverage of campaign 2020. If youve already voted in Contra Costa County theres a good chance that your ballot is in someone elses hands. We show you what they are doing, a very big step in the process. We update you on these incredible turnout numbers. What about voting without masks . They arent required at im voting yes on prop 19. Nineteen limits taxes on seniors. It limits property tax on people like me. Nineteen limits taxes on wildfire victims. It says so right here. If 19 passes, seniors can move closer to family or medical care. I looked at moving but i cant afford the taxes. Will you help californias most vulnerable . Vote