No choice. We are one week from school and no plan to reopen our schools. Reporter part of a national day of action happening in 30 cities across the country. Educators fighting for a safe and equitable start to the school year. No inperson learning until is proven safe and cleaning and ppe and access to online learning. The biggest fear is that this district doesnt care shone this for many years they dont care about the students or the workers enoughhe udts safe. The naacp issued a stern letter speaking out against the plan. This is not the way to do it. My concern is if you have children and these folks are out there demonstrating, you may traumatize those children. Both myself and the Teachers Union president received public threats on facebook and in order to keep our community and everyone here safe, we decided to change the route of the caravan to avoid a possible conflict. Reporter Oakland Unified School district told abc7 they will not make any comments about demand with labor unions. Its been four weeks, still no deal. Kris reyes, abc7 news. The bay area gets ready to go back to school, abc7 devoting a week of coverage to education. Well talk to families, leaders and teachers and our focus today is Elementary Schools and tomorrow we will turn to middle and high schools. Thursday it will be colleges and friday the focus is on teachers. You can also find our coverage on our website abc7news. Com. Another bay area county is threatening to find ye you if youre not wearing a Face Covering or a mask. The board of supervisors will impose fines for businesses and individuals who violate the states Public Health orders. The first offense will cost 100 and the second time double. A third offense 500. This solution around fines, one, it brings attention, but the second thing it does is it saves lives. At first officials will approach a person or a business not implementing mask wearing and give them a free mask. Multiple county departments will b allowed to site if the board approves this ordinance, it will go into effect immediately. Fines are already in place in other parts of the bay area. In fremont you can get fined 100 for not wearing a Face Covering. Marin and napa up to 500 for individuals and 10,000 for businesses. Contra costa county 500 for individuals and 1,000 for businesses and Sonoma County will vote on fines later this month. New details this morning on the retirement of g stepping do december after 28 years with the department. He took over as chief in 2016 as the force was dealing with a loss of officers. Garcia started in the Patrol Division and gradually rose through the ranks. Ill be forever grateful to this city and ive been privileged to have a front row seat of the amazing work of the men and women of this department. This nearly 30 years has been a fantastic ride. Garcia says his retirement has nuthing to do with the fallout of how the department handled protests after George Floyds ceth. He had been considering retiring for several months. In a statement mayor sam liccardo said he brought this Police Department back from the brink. Rebuilding officers ranks, their morale and more importantly their faith in themselves and their mission. Well, this morning people in the carolinas are waking up to the aftermath of the first powerful hurricane of the season to make landfall. This is a live look right now at myrtle beach. You can see things look pretty calm there in the wake of isaias. Jobina is at the live desk with the very latest. Good morning, kumasi. Winds of over 80 Miles Per Hour hurricane isaias made landfall overnight as a category one storm. Right now it is a category one storm but the effects are far from over. Isaias arrived in the carolinka and brought heavy wind and intense rain. Evacuations ordered for folks along the coast. Hundreds of thousands are without power. The u. S. National Hurricane Center has warned people in the ar area the storm surge could measure up to five feet of rain in spots. North carolina Officials Say a powerful storm is the last thing they want to deal with right now. Theyre one of the states dealing with a big increase in covid19 cases. Been here 35 years and weve never seen a situation like this where the hospital has been under this much stress. The hospital is absolutely full with covid, the icu is over capacity and now with a storm coming just Something Else to deal with. Cities across the northeast are now preparing for the effects of isias. In new york city these big orange flood barriers inflated in Lower Manhattan just in case there is flooding there. City officials are hoping to avoid a repeat of Superstorm Sandy which devastated new york in 2012. I know meteorologist mike nicco, our friend this morning has been tracking this all week, mike. Thankfully weve seen it decrease to a Tropical Storm, but i know people inland have a lot to deal with. Its really the rain that is going to be an issue to a lesser extent because theyll come behind that rain and possibly knock down some trees that are sitting in saturated soil. Let me say this, this will not be another super storm sandy, not even close. This is going to move rather rapidly up through the new england area and almost make it up to the arctic circle. It is going up to greenland and eventually not a Tropical Storm by then but the energy will be there. 15 miles southeast of roanoke rapids, south carolina. You can see right there northanf is going to hit the most densely populated area of our country. Gusts up to 90 Miles Per Hour and a coastal surge of up to four feet over the next 36 hours. They have a lot to deal with there. Back here at home, weve got our own kind of wet weather as a little bit of drizzle especially up in the east bay hills and 57 in lafayette and we have upper 50s to low 60s through most of the east bay valleys and mid 50s to mid 60s around most of the rest of our neighborhoods and see the low hanging clouds that will give way and drizzle and blustery conditions and blustery conditions all day. Drizzle just mainly this morning. Cool to comfy conditions this afternoon. And look at this, in the east bay, well be in the 60s through noon. Some low 70s for a couple hours this afternoon and down to a blustery 62 this evening. For San Francisco, well make it into the mid 60s for a couple hours with a few peeks of sunshine but a lot of mist hanging in the air this morning and the north bay from 59 at 8 00 to nearly 81 with sunshine. The breeze is keeping your temperatures below average also. In fact even cooler tomorrow with a better chance of some drizzle. Lets turn over to jobina and see if it is affecting the commute at all. Thank you, mike. Good morning, everyone. So, as far as the commute, at least not yet and hopefully it will stay that way for everyone. But i did want to bring in a live picture of showing you our oakland, 880 coliseum and we have Road Construction in the area and northbound 880 in between 29th and 23rd. This is overnight road work that has been happening. It will wrap up around 6 00 a. M. And you can expect some minor slow downs there. We also have minor crash coming in, as well. This is on westbound 80 on the harrison off ramp there. Doesnt look like its slowing down anyone if youre making your way from the east bay to San Francisco. Very quickly here are our drive times. Even our usual slow spot is moving quickly this morning. Tracy to dublin 29 minutes and antioch to concord and san rafael to San Francisco 16 minutes. Kumasi . The economic fallout of covid19. Helping Small Businesses keep their doors open. 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Drizzle around through 9 00 today and look at these temperatures 60s and mainly 70s. A few 80s in the east bay valleys and out in our extremes that wont be touched by the blustery conditions as much as the rest of us. If youre heading out this evening, already back in the 60s by 8 00. Winds fastest from 2 00 to 9 00 and anywhere close to where they were yesterday, man, those trees were swaying, werent they . Its reaching sacramento at 92 and 80 in l. A. Today and still 100 in fresno and 111 in palm springs. Kumasi. Thank you, mike. Some bay area transit agencies are making changes this month. In the south bay, vta will increase bus frequency on a number of lines starting on monday. Now partitions around bus and train operators. Vta started collecting fares again on saturday. In the east bay, a c transit cko 75 of normal starting ce on monday. The fares are still not being collected. Muni will restart Metro Service on august 22nd. Bringing back some bus routes and increasing on its core bus lines. B. A. R. T. Is making its best day of ridership since the pandemic started. I shouldnt say only, it is still a lot, 80 from average on sunday. Week day ridership recently has been down 90 . At its worst, b. A. R. T. Lost 94 of its riders. A nonprofit Financial Firm in oakland is providing grants to keep Small Businesses afloat during these extraordinary times. Its now seeking nominations from businesses who find themselves in some really challenging circumstances. The oakland based nonprofit microlender is trying to mix economic and social justice into its mission. In two weeks, the team has provided 239,000 in grants to 60 Small Businesses in oakland, San Francisco and in l. A. The businesses include a market, a fitness center, restaurant, jewelry designer, Dance Company and a floral shop. We wanted to address the needs of two groups of Small Businesses. One, the very Small Businesses that didnt receive ppp grants and, two, businesses that had sustained some damage as a result of civil unrest. Now, anybody can nominate a Small Business for a grant. The Program Helps to fund 200 more entrepreneurs selected by lottery in the next two weeks. Well, between dista learning and parents just trying to preserve their sanity, kids are getting a lot of screen time these days. How concerned should parents be about this . Ama daetz had an get common questions and help you navigate this challenging time. I wouldnt say youre ruining your time. The American Academy of pedi pediatrics has guidelines and we all stand by them. Nobody wrote those guidelines with the asterisk saying heres what you do during a pandemic. Here we are Distance Learning and using screens for survival. Abc7 news special correspondent says all is not lost. You can still create techfree zones in your house and still say, hey, no screen time in the bedroom or no screen time at the dinner table. We can still encourage back and forth dialogue as much as we can. You can still encourage your children to play. Play is huge, especially for little kids. Consumer reports suggests scheduling it into the day. Build in times toot be on screens whether that is raining hanging out on your porch, going for a walk if you can. Even board game time inside. Planning stuff where screens arent a part of it so its an easy thing to switch in to this is not a screen time for us. When the kids are watching tv, watch with them. What about educational apps. A lot of parents are asking dr. Patel if theyre okay. Theyre going to tell you theyre educational so theyll get you to pay for that, but a lot of people arent. They should check Common Sense Media to look to see if those apps really are educational or a marketing ploy. If you have teens some extra things to watch out for. Make sure were taking care of their posture and their eye health and theyre also stretching and getting and looking away from the screen every 15 minutes or so stretching out their back. Those are Little Things weve never seen this amount of screen time in teens. Nobody wants to see in six months from now we all of a sudden have eye strain and headaches and back pain from teens who are sitting in front of a screen 8 to 12 hours a day. A lot to digest, but when it comes down to it having boundaries and guidelines and, of course rve, dont forget to yourself some grace. We are in a pandemic after all. Ama daetz. Mike, i dont know why i just like when you put on those glasses. It looks like something official is about to happen. I wanted to say, its not my age, but its screen time. Its the eye phone, its the reason i have to wear glasses now. Nothing is about to go down. No. See, im waiting now. Okay. Let me take these off because i dont need them right now. All right. Thats awesome. Lets take a look at whats going on. Hi, everybody. Welcome to tuesday. I hope youre having a good start. If not, well try to get you in a good mood. The weather, pretty interesting. San jose less mist in the air and cloudy and 61 and we have a chance of drizzle this morning. Already measurable out there. 6 in the east bay hills. Blustery today and tomorrow with below average afternoon temperatures but summer is coming back, you cant get rid of it that quickly. It will be here this weekend. By noon still plenty of clouds all around the bay and they never completely clear out, even with the blustery conditions and already by 7 00 theyre starting to make their way back into the east bay valleys for another night of drizzle. Cool in the south bay with mid and upper 70s. As you head up the peninsula, weve got low to mid 70s in most neighborhoods. Millbrae 68 with the least amou amount of sunshine and breezy conditions. Low 60s along the coast and mid and upper 60s downtown and south San Francisco and sausalito 70 and 78 san rafael and 79 in napa and low to mid 90s for the rest of the bay. Along the east bay shore richmond at 68 and 70 to 74 else where and 80 to 88 degrees in our east bay valleys. All right. We jump ahead a little bit there. Let me get back to the seven day and show you how temperatures are dropping up to ten degrees today and the possibility that they may drop another two to ten degrees tomorrow. Our coolest day. We gain those back thursday and then you can see summer returning for the weekend. Led to an arrest in the 1998 murder of a newborn baby in the east bay. The suspect is 42yearold lesa lopez. She lived in the area at the time the baby died and hid her pregnancy. She was 20 years old at the time. Two children found the lifeless baby inside a bag in castro valley. Investigators developed a dna profile of the boy in 2005 and last year they started searching commercial dna testing records and that led them to lopez. Egha investigators say in june they used trash to match the dna. In the north bay a sculpture of a white hand is now black. Someone painted this sculpture at the santa rosa mall. It happened friday night during a black lives matter protest. Mall officials decided not to take legal action. The 7 1 2 ton marble hand has been outside the mall since 1996. The artist says its a tribute to the citys agricultural workers. In the east bay Piedmont City Council has voted to fly the black lives matter flag at city hall. This flag will remain up for the entire month of august. A fisherman forced to move from the spot where he sold his catch for years. But his determination to find a new home i p the 49ers getting down to business with limited training time, there is a lot of work to do. 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Ck, looks like a great day for achy, burning eyes overthecounter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. Prabctargeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. What is that . Xiidra, noooo it can provide lasting relief. Xiidra is the only fda approved treatment specifically for the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. One drop in each eye, twice a day. Dont use if youre allergic to xiidra. Common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort or blurred vision when applied to the eye, and unusual taste sensation. Dont touch container tip to your eye or any surface. After using xiidra, wait 15 minutes before reinserting contacts. Got any room in your eye . Talk to an eye doctor about twicedaily xiidra. I prefer you didnt xiidra. Not today, dry eye. All right. Welcome back, 4 54 on a tuesday. Lets look at how much drizzle we could get tonight. I know were not out of the woods this morning but another 0. 5 is possible tonight through tomorrows morning commute. Winds maybe not quite as fast this afternoon as they were yesterday afternoon, but wednesday afternoon, yeah, theyre going to ramp up, once again, and be almost as fast as they were yesterday. Lets take a look at our temperatures. Wednesday will be our coolest day with 60s and 70s. The 80s start to return to the east bay and the north bay thursday and you can even see some 90s starting to creep in around cloverdale and a preview of what is going to happen for pier 47 now has a new home. Y y in june he was told he would have to move to allow a nearby restaurant to set up outdoor restaurants. It took a lot of phone calls to find a new location. All of a sudden it exploded on the other end of the line. It was just like, heck, yeah, you can sell fish at our harbor. I almost fell out of my chair. I like the way he told that story. He will also have a food truck at his new spot. The 49ers are back and currently in their acclimation period. That includes Strength Training and walkthrough practices. This phase of Training Camp will run until next tuesday. John lynch says no players h d out for the upcoming season. Under the new guidelines no preseason games this year. With limited practice time this year, there is a lot of work to do. Were going to be ready to adapt to anything. You have to with the covid stuff, you never know when youre going to lose people. So many people have been working their tails off to equip this place such that our players feel comfortable and their families feel comfortable and our staff feels comfortable. Does that assure us of anything . No. But it sure allows us to mitigate any risk. 49ers Season Opener is scheduled for september 13th at levi stadium. Saving tiktok. The move the Parent Company is considering after the Trump Administration threatened to ban the app. Back to school during the pandemic. The bay area School District having teachers come in while their students keep working from home. And as covid19 continues to spread nationwide, there is conflict b introducing the new sleep number 360 smart bed. Now temperature balancing, so you can sleep better together. Can it help keep me asleep . Absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. Can it help with snoring . Ive never heard snoring. Exactly. No problem. And done. Will it help me keep up with mom . Youve got this. So you can really promise better sleep . Not promise. Prove. And now, no interest until january 2023 on all smart beds. Only for a limited time. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. Now at 5 00 a race for the covid19 vaccine and the commissioner spoke on what it would take to get one approved. Plus, finalizing back to school plans. One bay area School District thinks having teachers still come to school while students are staying at home is the best course of action. Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, august 4th. Good morning, reggie. Good morning. Hello, shoulders. Yes, just a little bit. Look at this. I like this. Little padding. Its cool. Yeah. Its nice. Yeah. All right. Im into this. Mike nicco, what are you into this morning . I thought maybe it was all about football for kumasi there with the Big Shoulders on. I like that. Yeah. Im into wind. You know, a lot of people were talking about it yesterday. Lets see what is going on with that wind right now. Still 24 Miles Per Hour in concord and 30 in fairfield and the rest of us a little calmer than that usual spots breezy this morning. The mist and drizzle we promised. It is out there and it is measurable in many areas. Dont be surprised if you run into it if you have a decent commute or head through some of our higher elevations. Thats the explor tatorium came and around 55 to 60 this morning at 7 00. Notice temperatures mainly in the 60s and 70s this afternoon. Up to 13 degrees cooler than yesterday and this isnt even our coolest day. Ill show you that and more drizzle coming up in the