Education leaders are preparing children across the state to distance learned for the rest of the school year. The state superintendent for public instruction Tony Thurmond is hoping the Distance Learning will accelerate everyones education. He unveiled specific guidelines on distancelearning for district leaders. California is also providing additional webinars and resource teachers as well. Will be providing a women are that is focus on how to provide special education through Distance Learning. I like to thank all those who are helping to put it together our special education workforce, california teachers association, the staff of the California Department of education in the state board of education for coming forward to help us answer a question is not been answered in this way before how do we deliver special education through Distance Learning more than 5,000 people have signed up mostly educators to hear about best practices about lesson plans about modules for how we deliver special education. Well a lot of parents and students are wondering about Summer School but the state hasnt yet made any decisions about Summer School signups or requirements. The Governor Also Announced an Important Partnership with google that will help Distance Learning not sprayed Distance Learning to all 6 Million Students in california google will be offering 100,000 free wi fi hotspots and will also donate 4,000 chromebooks for at least 3 months. The governor says about 20 of california students do not have access to the internet or devices to get them online. And thats a problem the San FranciscoUnified School DistrictAttorney Says that thousands of its students are having to borrow laptops to begin Distance Learning. The district has distributed more than 5200 laptops to students grades 3 through 12. But it estimates that may need to distribute another 5,000 over the next week. All schools in the city have been closed since march 16th the district says teachers are preparing to begin distancelearning on april 13th. Well not everybody is on board with learning from home some parents of students in the san jose Unified School District say that their children are not receiving enough assignments and theyre worried that their kids will fall behind with the lack of formal education during the shelter in pay place. Kron fours michelle kingston shares more of one parents concern. The daughter is getting one assignment. Every couple of days thats optional. Its better than nothing but theres no steep through directed learning its all on student to do it and sells Michelle Martin is the parent of a Leland High School student for almost 3 weeks now she says her daughter is better at home with little to no contact from or teachers or work being assigned while many districts across the country are utilizing Virtual Learning and hosting Classes Online some parents within the san jose Unified School District believe their district isnt doing enough. Its better than nothing but its a oneway communication so the teacher might put something up and say take a look at this. It email your message or if you have any questions and ill get back to you but theres nothings formal theres no attendance being taken there is no one. Place for the kids to go to meet. It just seems like its. Could be one long holiday. Some parents say they reached out to the district but have heard no response to their questions the districts website shows some videos for k through 5 learning in a recommended schedule for students to follow on kron 4 reached out to the district on wednesday. We were told their top priority is the safety of their students families and staff they say they are actively working on getting additional Electronic Devices to students who may still need one to access their educational materials. They say their teachers are reaching out remotely with instructional lessons each week, however, the parents we spoke to say they were told the lessons are optional. And dont apply to their greats in fear what will happen come next year now and were concerned shes a sophomore in college is really. On her her brain regularly, shes really into school. Shes a great student and so this is very frustrating for all of us michelle kingston kron 4 news. To the east bay this morning, researchers in berkeley have been working around the clock to set up a large Scale Robotics Lab to test for the coronavirus scientists there tell kron 4 sweep to call that theyre just a few days away from potentially testing up to 3,000 samples every day. Through the universitys nonprofit Innovative Genomics Institute starting monday u c Berkeley Team up with you see San Francisco researchers to provide large scale testing for Novel Coronavirus or covid19. The automated robotics lab is being set up in a building on campus. The scientists running it are all volunteers like few order or a professor of molecular and cell biology at cow. He is coleading the project we dont really know. How long we will have to do this were hopeful we could be done in a couple of months and thats it. If thats the case will be the happiest people on earth. And i think its unlikely we will run as long as its necessary the system will be capable of testing up to 300 nasal swabs at a time and up to 3,000 today results will be available within one day or as quickly as 4 hours a stark contrast to what hospitals and clinics across the bay area are experiencing. With the turnaround often exceeding a week in order to stop the spread of covid19 or not says its imperative those who have been infected with the disease are identified and isolated as soon as possible especially since most people are showing mild or no symptoms but remain highly contagious. We absolutely in terms because were a Nonprofit Institute at a public university. And to put the recipe for how to do this into the Public Domain or knobs says the lab will first start by testing samples taken from the University Students faculty and staff. The lab is also working with the city of berkeley to then open testing up to residents and hospital patients as well you buy enough to test 10,000 people who buy the just the core regions in the past. 250,000. Its expensive but its essential after testing is scheduled to begin monday. Felipe should all kron 4 news. Also in the east bay after testing positive last month one oakland woman is sharing what its like to have the coronavirus should the could row shared the news on Facebook Live and she very quickly received hundreds of comments from strangers with well wishes and also questions aisha said she went out on the night of march 17 for dinner with her boyfriend, a neighbor to celebrate her 40th birthday. It was also the last night before Alameda County stay at home orders were issued. Asia says she felt sick the next day and was tested at kaisers drivethru site a few days after that. Her results came back positive on march 22nd. I just want to tell people the act like they have it. Take care of yourself isolate stay away from other people. I hope people dont have it. Do people think that as soon as we get it youre going to die. Thats not true, but it is something that you have to take very seriously because our really known ways to treat it. Malaysia has been recovering at home in oakland with her boyfriend who himself has been experiencing shortness of breath chest pain and fever, but he cant get tested because of a lack of tests, family and friends have been dropping off food and other essential items for the couple asia and her boyfriend are ordered to stay home until 72 hours after their symptoms subside. Starting today Grocery Stores across the bay area are setting up dedicated shopping hours just for First Responders the special hours are being set up at all save mart food, max, and lucky stores in california and northern nevada Law Enforcement fire and medical personnel will be able to shop at those stores one hour before and one hour after the posted store hours. First responders will have to show their credentials or a bag in order to access the dedicated shopping hours at those supermarkets. Still ahead this morning on the morning news of schools across california will stay empty for the rest of the school year well find out what that means for us some High School State seniors who are now just months away from graduating. And lets take you outside for a live look at conditions at the san mateo bridge where traffic is moving smoothly. This morning w good morning. Thanks for joining us on the kron 4 morning news who want to go ahead and get the forecast we had a lovely day yesterday lets find out of todays going to be the same turnout dave spahr who is a working from home. Hi dave. A good morning. Marty and good morning, everybody we are looking at a pretty sweet forecast for your thursday and friday to finish off week and because we need very much so more rain headed our way for the weekend and early into next week unsettled, well go ahead and call it, heres a live shot coming in from u c berkeley and there you can see the east bay shoreline all lit up very nicely now a nice blue bay blue skies and more blue with the Golden Gate Bridge as well. Not that addiction faa going on here as we look at just very light traffic and now look at the flag pole or not much the way of a breeze happening there at least not at this hour. We have a little bit earlier on some winds going on in portions of the inland areas of the east bay and up the Solano County a little bit too. Thats going to flip over to the north bay now in the peninsula later on afternoon into the early evening. It will be a nice northwest wind and what thats going to do is kind of control climate controlled those temperatures for today, keep them down a little lower than they would normally be under. Conditions of sunshine of course is also cooler air aloft too satellite picture on Storm Tracker 4 forget the storm part just tracking the blue skies as what weve got going on today tomorrow, but it will get busy this weekend, however, heres a look at the Area Temperatures work 48 for santa rosa thats an improvement. 15 51 for now, but just 2 hours ago they were in the 30s, 49 for a concord in livermore coming in at 50. Also tells you got some dry air work there too. So we are catching for more we were just how about 24 hours ago we were trailing in most of the bay now were closing that gap still just a touch cooler in the east bay just a bit there in the north bay, some selected locations getting into it now is what happens as we go into the weekend friday looks pretty good to friday night overnight here come saturday morning. And this looks to be developing a little bit later in the day than some of the early models so let you get some time to get outside perhaps and fight that cabin fever briefly independently that is before we start to see rain develop into later on saturday so mostly sunny and warm thats today your friday 60s for the bay area that for this weekend weve got showers and rain cooler temps back to the 50s. And on sunday you might have some claps of thunder thrown in there for good measure which is the same deal on monday. Mountain snows even for some of the bay area communities in terms of the. A patients now hamilton for example mount diablo 61 in San Francisco, 65 for oakland. And 66 san jose sunny and sunny and you can expect that also basically for tomorrow. Coming up a little bit well take a look at some of those longer range forecast models for you and take a look at the Drought Monitor which by the way were still in the drought category has not gotten any better marty back ok thank you dave. The reality that students will not be returning to their School Campuses is really a tough pill to swallow for a lot of high school seniors. We talked to some seniors at Antioch High School who tell us they already missed their friends and teachers and there are very sad about not being able to take part and senior nights for sports are not going to prom and of course on graduation while theyre disappointed they do see it is doing their part to slow the spread of the coronavirus and if thats what it takes then so be it. I mean definitely all of us in a crowd of 22 or youre going to remember this right for a while and this try to see like oh man we didnt get that experience as class of 2019 request before us even after us. So you know i just hope that. If a another pandemic like this or anything else happen in the future where we have no school. That we are more prepared. Well the antioch School District says that any student on track to graduate will receive their diploma and a Graduation Ceremony will eventually happen at a later date. You see system will suspend its admissions testing for a requirements and certain other academic rules for students who are applying to any of its campuses and that of course includes u c berkeley. In response to the coronavirus pandemic the College Board canceled the s a t test this spring. The University Says it plans to add testing dates later on this year. A seat he also poked postponed its session which was scheduled for this month. Health care workers of course are on the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus and in vacaville, one a nurses husband decided to bring the Community Together to show their support for Health Care Workers at Kaiser Hospital erick rucker has that story. We are anticipating a de lucia people who are very sick and have the potential to make us very sick as a registered nurse, a becky cherry may already has a stressful job. Now with the current coronavirus pandemic inside the levels are even higher these are scary times beckys husband allen may says the couple have even separated themselves in their own household for fear the wife could contract the virus and give it to her husband while together time on the couch is on hold the line has been drawn, you know she said to me now and you want me to move out to the trailer and i said no im not going to give that up seeing what becky and other Healthcare Professionals are going through these days allen got an idea. I saw that in new york to showing support by at 7 oclock. Theyre all honking horns and turning on lights and i thought what a great thing to do here so allen went on social media. In tuesday night this is what happened. After a car drove through the back Kaiser Hospital last hoping to say thank you. I didnt know how many would show up. But quite a few did. Inside workers whipped out their phones and showed what the action look like from their Vantage Point that he was one of those on duty at the time we were all moved to tears, it was. So many, but what a what a wonderful gesture from my amazing husband. With the event being a huge success allen says hes not done. And getting a lot of people on facebook saying when are we going again as planned this again so i definitely think we are going to set something up like that. A lot of noise to show a little love. Well happening now san jose mayor sam liccardo giving an update on the citys Food Distribution system will also be unveiling a brandnew to hid tool that will help people find those distribution sites. Lets go ahead listen great leadership from our schools and mary on the doctor friend on who is this. The superintendent of schools. For the county board of education. We are here with partners from says a unified of course its right here says a high. And youll be hearing shortly. I know from im linda landau and of course valued. Partners in a Nonprofit Community have been leading the charge for many years like Second Harvest food bank. Leslie box will be speaking as well. Of course, theyre just representative of really hundreds of people are pulling together to enable during the toughest of times here. As we know our community is struggling mightily through this crisis. It is in fact our families are struggling without a paycheck. That compel our most immediate response. And so kind valley strong together showing the power of collaboration. Were starting of course with partners who are already doing extraordinary work. I mention leslie box on Second Harvest food bank, providing nearly 1. 7 meal million meals a week. To residents throughout our region. The critically need the sustenance to get from one day to the next where partnering with the faith based community. Incredible churches like if you draw faith and many other faith based organizations that have been engage