Thanks for joining us tonight at 5 oclock im ken wayne and im pam moore, a grim milestone for the United States tonight as the death toll from the coronavirus tops 200,000 that number is by far the highest confirmed death toll from the virus in the world, according to Johns Hopkins this to just take even more stark when you consider the United States has less than 5 of the worlds population but more than 20 of the reported deaths. Solemn comparison the number of dead in the u. S. Is equivalent to a 9. 11 attack every day for 6 to 7 days. And its roughly equal to the entire population of Salt Lake City here in the bay area the news is more positive as it pertains to covid19 the covid numbers and 3 bay area counties have improved so much that the state has moved those counties and the purple tear to the red to year that allows many indoor businesses to reopen at limited capacity, but only 2 of the 3 counties is moving forward from course and kerman live for us in San Mateo County to explain dan. Well many of the businesses here on san bruno avenue will be reopening indoors. San mateo county is one of those 3 counties moving ahead immediately as his Solano County but alameda putting the brakes on they want to make sure that their numbers hold so they are not moving forward. Yet. These chairs have been collecting dust inside the nations loft wine bar and restaurant for months, but now Solano County will allow Indoor Dining once again at 25 capacity. Very excited about the opportunity to bring people back indoors Restaurant Owners say adding a partial reopening indoors to the patio dining. Well make a difference. A lot is restaurants we can do about 50 of our business outdoors if we can add another 25 indoors. Mathematically that could put us somewhere around 75 . And we can do ok 75 . The change comes because the state has move Solano County from the purple tier to the red tier because its covid numbers have improved. We have fewer cases being reported every day we have a lower percentage of people being tested who are positive. We have fewer people being hospitalized. These are all good things because they show that the outbreaks impact on us is decreasing and thats what we all want the change from purple, the red means in addition to Indoor Dining retail can open indoors at 50 capacity. Hair nail salons and barbershops can open with modifications museums zoos aquariums places of worship and movie theaters can open a 25 capacity indoors. And gyms and Fitness Centers can open doors at a maximum 10 of capacity. Schools may also get the green light in 2 weeks into wake schools and consider. Resuming face to face education and theyre required to its up to each district to decide whether they want to face to face and how much is that they want but at least are going to be in the position where they can resume facetoface education. And again for restaurants and those businesses as far as indoor that all starts immediately here in San Mateo County as well as Solano CountyAlameda County putting the brakes on theyre going to see how their numbers move over the next 2 weeks they want to make sure they stay in the red before moving any sort of reopening. Reporting live in san Bruno Dan Kerman Kron 4 news dan thank you for that report. Well tonight nail salons all across california have been given the green light to reopen indoor operations as amid this ongoing pandemic. The state Health Secretary says that although the state has relaxed the restrictions it is still up to individual counties to have the final say on whether and when salons can actually open before a nail salon can reopen though it will also still be required to meet the states reopening safety requirements and to the south bay now Santa Clara County has been in the red tier of the states reopening blueprint for 13 days now that means schools have the green light to reopen as soon as tomorrow kron fours rob fladeboe thats wrong whether that will happen. Live from san jose wrong. Strike and as of tomorrow as you know the Santa Clara County will have been off the stage watch list for a full 2 give School Districts like this one the option of opening once again for in Person Learning, but thats not likely to happen at least not right away most of the districts, particularly the larger ones are going to continue with Online Learning at least for now heres more. Willow glen high and the other schools in the 28,000 students, San Jose Unified School district. The south bays largest will not be welcoming students back to School Tomorrow despite being cleared to do so instead the district will continue with Online Learning at least through the end of december says spokesperson Jennifer Maddox because there are other things that are in the county guidelines that are still prohibited right indoor gatherings for example. And from my perspective if people cant gather indoors than it doesnt make a lot of sense to put 30 kids in a classroom together which seem similar to an indoor gathering, although some smaller private schools have already been granted waivers to resume in person classes, larger districts are holding off even though the county is a day away from being off the states monitoring list for 2 weeks, what you get is see in the next few days is every School District in dialogue with parents having a conversation about what makes sense. You know you will have different decisions being made 4 different schools a key consideration in san jose unified decision to stick with Distance Learning is the burden of being responsible for testing students for covid19 they issued a new health order last week that is requiring the Large Health Care providers to increase their testing and to make sure that its available to you. All of the citizens of Santa Clara County. We need that in order to reopen School Safely because we need to be able to isolate the cases quickly on the main thing. For those of us who want to see this option of opening schools to remain as an option is to make sure that people continue to follow the rules. So that we contain the transmission to make it so that schools have a shot at reopening in classroom instruction. Where thats appropriate. And the main reason of course that the School District have this option now is that the county is reporting some of the lowest coronavirus numbers since june right now only about 2 of people tested are coming back positive live in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Thank well, students and teachers in one east bay School District just got one step closer to returning to the classroom, however, the union that represents teachers in that district says not so fast from force has it by noon explains why. Alameda county has officially moved into the red tier of the California Department of Public Health blueprint for a safer economy. Among other things the red tier allows for School Districts in the county like oakland unified to reopen for in Person Learning after maintaining red stat is for 2 weeks. I mean i think its always positive when we hear that the cases are going down because we we dont want to see people getting sick. However, the spokesperson for the Oakland Education Association chaz garcia explains why the Teachers Union cautions any expectations of hastily returning students and teachers to a classroom said we have safety criteria that still needs to be negotiated. Agreed upon before return to he doing any in Person Learning we have to make sure that were holding. Community safety student safety. In the highest regard because as weve seen across the country and even internationally. Casey of children contracting and spreading covid have been on the rise. She says ultimately returning to class has to be in oakland specific data driven decisions. Oakland be a larger portion cases in Alameda County we really believe that it is incumbent upon us to look specifically in oakland data before we make any decisions around any in Person Instruction we should note Alameda Countys most recent health order clarified that schools must continue Distance Learning until conditions support in Person Learning. That is even if the county meets the states criteria for returning to the classroom has it made you kron 4 news. A bicyclist killed in a traffic collision late sunday night has been identified thats according to Santa Clara County medical examiners office. Police say 43 yearold christopher so so was hit by a car at the intersection of south white road and rose avenue in san joses florence courts neighborhood. The crash was reported around 11 00pm and the driver who hit him. Reportedly cooperated with investigators after the accident. So says death was the 32nd traffic related fatality on San Jose City streets this year. A live look outside right now and see how things are shaping up on this tuesday evening looking out over San Francisco with our sutro camera and you can see some patchy clouds around the bay areas right now some player parts of the bay area dont have to wear if you dont want to out there. Lawrence yeah, i know when that be nice to be out there to filth that beautiful weather fall is how about that too just a couple of patches of fog look at that float by otherwise weve got mostly clear skies out there says this evening of course is that time of year we see less and less of that fog outside a lot of that sunshine look at looking good too good, nice clear skies air quality looking fantastic out there we do see the fog. Its right along the coastline, some of that hovering theyre getting ready to move back on shore. As we take you through the night tonight, yeah thats a pretty good breeze as out there today as you can see sfo right now youre going to 30 mile an hour breeze, so pretty breeze blowing their 13 into San Francisco, 16 in oakland, 22 in fairfield 18 even in the napa valley all these coming out of the west thats bringing a nice clean ocean air into the bay area to keep the air quality looking good all around in to going to see some more sunshine headed our way tonight got a nice evening on tap for you going to be little breezy out there early on, but the temperatures very comfortable in the 70s going off all in the 60s and some fog is the form or so about 08 00pm or so and then more fog overnight tomorrow patchy low clouds early on temperatures going to be the 50s in the 60s as we head toward the middle the day mostly sunny skies and temperatures running up even by noontime in the 80s inland lot of 70s inside the bay in the afternoon. Mideighties the warmer spots around the bay area even some 60s up toward the coast. If you arent coming up a state audit has found that the university of california wrongly admitted more than 60 wealthy students as favors to donors and family and friends. How many of those students attend u c berkeley and free meals for east bay families where you can go to get help if you are in need of a hot meal plus working around the clock to save racing against time and under dangerous conditions residents coming together to fight back against the wildfire bearing down on their home. The group worked around the clock to try to keep the flames from their communities near the Russian River and as kron fours ray kelly tells us they fought back to fire for more than a week. This video was shot from the drivers seat of a bulldozer cutting fire lines during the walbridge fire west parmenter part of a family of loggers who also run an Excavator Company in the tiny Sonoma County town of caza was one of 4 dozer operators who work for more than a week straight. Sometimes 24 hours a day cutting fire lines often right up against the flames sometimes the fire was right on the side dozer could be a fee i just blowing against suit working against the raging fires and winds with very little sleep. He and his crew worked to cut the fire off before it reached his community and other towns along the Russian River parmenter has operate his dozer for cal fire for many years. But this fire was different. I think its because you close all. When you lived here for 40 years. And this to know everybody in the community. And to build it. Save that for them. And not let them lose everything they had you know. That was most important to us you know his death. Save the community for what they have and what theyve worked for and. Thats what we did. Parmenter estimates that he and his crew cut 30 miles of fire line, some of them 10 dozer blades wide. His crew was not alone. He estimates another 10 to 12 bulldozer operators help cut a contingency line as a backup. And over in general mark man a rancher who also runs an Excavator Company was part of another small crew who helped cut fire lines right up against the blaze for more than a week in order to keep the myers fire burning on the coast from moving into town and east towards greenville. Theres a lot of people in our community to maybe that range from loggers to construction to. You know ranchers that have equipment and so everybody. We all care a lot about our community and and the ground that and the forest in the fields everything that we live in so we want to protect that as much as we can. And so everybody when the time we need comes we just all step up and Work Together its not hard to find places now where the fires have blackened this beautiful landscape its also not hard to find signs like this one dotting the areas that were spared giving thanks to the people who stepped up. To help save them, Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. In southern california, the massive bobcat fire continues to grow in the Angeles National forest containment on the blaze increased from 15 yesterday to 17 today, the bobcat fire has been burning for about 3 weeks and has burned at least a 109,000 acres at least a 1000 homes are still at risk. Thats according to the u. S. Forest service, more than 1500 firefighters are on the scene but Officials Say theres still a critical need for more resources a big story we are following tonight a california state audit found that the university of california wrongly admitted dozens of wealthy students over the past 6 years. Thats a on it found over that 6 year review period applicants were accepted into universities as favors to donors to family and friends. U c berkeley is responsible for admitting 42 applications based on connections to staff leadership and donors and the auditor notes the applicants were not as qualified as others who were denied admission that audit was conducted in response to the National College admissions scandal last year. Earlier today in the south bay officials announced the sapd center in san jose will become a ballot drop box location for the 2020 president ial election. Starting october 5th and continuing through election day on tuesday november, 3rd. The s a t center will offer to secure drop box locations for voters to deliver their ballots. One drop box will be located on saint john street. The other will be on autumn street just outside the s and p center both locations will offer free and 88 accessible parking options. Close by so voters can easily park walk up and drop off their ballots. A live look outside again checking on the golden gate bridge, this time looking north looking at the wispy clouds out there beautiful though beautiful clear skies as side those little lists, yeah, no smoke out there. Lawrence said good sign good beautiful weather out there this time of year this gets me that great time of year where we start to clear out all the fog along the coastline after day after day of fog up for the beaches, you start to see more of this clearing skies in the half moon bay. And certainly thats going to be the case over the full days is were going to see more offshore winds developing certainly expecting them. The air quality or just this past week were looking walnut creek were looking out there boy was so hazy well not so today as weve cleared out your skies very nicely that sea breeze continues to blow now weve got some changes coming seize we cold fronts coming through the helping really kind of kick up the winds a bit more substantial system now want to bring rain up in the Pacific Northwest not going to bring rain here. But well certainly make for some change especially toward the end of the week for the bay area numbers out there right now 64 degrees in San Francisco, 72. In oakland is 79 degrees in san jose 82 degrees in livermore 86 in concord and 82 in santa ro