Virus, you can still depend on the mail to come on time, but some workers say thats not necessarily the case. Here is nbc bay areas melissa colorado. Reporter this video posted to twitter last week shows an empty post office in berkley. It was really strange. It was a little bit like like this government building with nobody in it. Reporter last week dee said the same thing happened to her when she stopped by berkleys Main Post Office to send a package. A spokesperson for the u. S. Postal Service Confirms there wasnt enough staff last month to man all of berkleys post offices, forcing some to close. Today all offices are back to normal, but now there is concerns that covid19 infections among postal workers and a new rule by the post master general is slowing down mail delivery that could have dire consequences in november. Yeah, i mean im really worried. I have been registered as an ab tennessee voter forever. Reporter Shirley Taylor with the American Postal Workers Union says post off
24 to 48 hours the backlog between 240,000 and 300,000 records will be resolved, giving as you better sense of the total number of tests that were delayed. We apologize. You deserve better. The governor demands better of us and we are committed to doing better. Governor newsom has asked for an investigation into how the data glitch happen and the doctor says people will be held accountable. As for the hundreds of thousands of tests, it is under clear how many are coronavirus. There could be tests for other things as well. Despite the underdown, the doctor believes the trend of new cases has been stabilizing and is moving down. It has been a tough two weeks for unemployed californians. The 600 a week unemployment life line was discontinued on july 25th. Leslie brinkley looked into how people are coping. What am i going to do . Reporter she can coast by with a federal supplement but it is almost impossible now. The difference between 450 and 1050 is 600. Reporter her husband is battling
Getting a quality education, and allowing us as parents to get back to work, where we are able to, and to make sure that we are attending as we anticipate this every year to so many other responsibilities as parents and caregivers. Today, i want to talk about what we are putting out in terms of guidance and guidelines for education in the state of california in the context of covid19. We will go through a list of specific recommendations, specific guidance as well is updating you as we do on all of the information related to Positivity Rates, hospitalization rates and icus. Lets begin with the found ocean framework lets begin with the foundational framework. It is nonnegotiable that schools must provide meaningful instruction during this pandemic, whether they are physically opened, the schools, or not. That is what i want to talk about specifically today. Our students, our teachers, staff, and certainly parents, we all prefer in class instruction for all of the obvious reasons. But on
Allowed to open this school year with in class instruction unless the counties remain off the list for two weeks. He was joined by the States Health secretary at the briefing. Gov. Newsom to make sure that we are attending, as anticipate this time of year, to so many other responsibilities. I want to talk about what we are putting out in terms of guidance and guidelines for education in the state of california in the context of covid19. We will go through a list of specific recommendations, specific guidance, as well as allting you, as we do on the information related to Positivity Rates, hospitalization rates and icus in the state. Let me begin first with foundational framework. That is our bottom line. That learning in the state of california is simply nonnegotiable that schools must provide meaningful instruction during this pandemic, whether they are physically opened, the schools, or not. That is what i want to talk about specifically today. Students, teachers, staff and parents,
Of millions diagnostic tests school plans should last for at least one year while the government pursues a vaccine at warp speed faster than we have ever done thate before the nobody expects vaccine this august the second half should be better able to provide more test, more treatments better Contact Tracing and hopefully we should have a vaccine in the fall of 2021 before we begin to approach normal. Several Reasons School have the advantage to provide a safe environment for students and faculty is younger people have been less hurt by coalbed 19 than older people although doctor fauci told our committee we should be careful to assume that young people are not at risk second, schools are generally oolll communities but generally supervised and monitored and they could be traced if a child becomes sick then the classmates can be tested and for individual schools are able to remain open schools are not unfamiliar with outbreaks of flu or other illnesses that have temporary closure of in