Thousands cases to go unreported. The state is still trying to go through that backlog. The governor has called a News Conference for tomorrow at noon. You can watch it live right here at nbc bay area. Our other top story, the bay area going back to school, but not like any of us remember it. Most students will begin the year learning at home. Tonight, families were out doing some lastminute back to School Shopping. The new normal theyre learn sglg a lot of families headed to this target tonight for back to School Shopping. But there is less focus on clothes and more focus on buying computers and chargers. She and her two sons are headed into target for their annual back to School Shopping pi pilgrima pilgrimage. They came out with pencils and this shirt. His mom says she definitely spent less last year. Last year i got way more notebooks, binders. Now everything is on zoom or computer. Thats not necessary. And there is not need to invest in new jeans or pants for her sons if no one is going to see them. Jessica says shopping for her two daughters definitely felt different this year. We didnt buy backpacks and lunchboxes and back to School Clothes like we usually do. And extra supplies to r charges have at home because were basically setting up a classroom to have at home. While Retail Stores may be selling fewer back to School Clothes. Coronavirus will push back to School Spending to a record level with families splurging on laptops and computer accessori s accessories. Parents of elementary through High School Age students indicate they plan to spend about 789 per family this year. However, the pandemic has also created a lot of job uncertainty, which may cause some parents to rethink spending. Still, there are some things even a pandemic cant change. Looking forward to seeing my friends again. Reporter and another thing thats different this year, we found a lot of parents buying decorations for their kids bed roods because they want a cool backdrop. Students in the oakland unified districtarng. The district and teachers continue negotiations. Talks broke off yesterday. Nothing changed today. The Teachers Union want it is district to provide small group Distance Learning in addition to daily instruction because they think the small groups are so effective. The Union Representative says the district wont budge. There has been some money provided by the state that would enable the districts to do this. We have been very creative as a team of 21 educators on our Bargaining Team of coming up with various ways to provide small group instruction. For now the teachers plan to hold full class instruction for a single hour each day online and in person wellness checks on at risk students. The district said friday it cannot release any details about reopening plans until it reaches an agreement with the union. The two sides have been negotiating for a month ago. San jose unified also returns to school this week with teachers being required to be in thetudents required to be at home. The district says it is working on accommodations for child care and medical needs. Where does your district stand . We put together a list for you. Just head on over to our website nbcbayarea. Com. On the top left corner. Nbc is launching a new series called coronavirus and the classroom. You can hear from a team of experts for the best answers to all of the questions from teachers to parents to students. Coronavirus in the classroom kicks off tomorrow on today. You can also catch complete coverage, back to School Coverage on today in the bay beginning at 4 30. Were finding out about more cases of covid19 in the area and the state. California is reporting some of that backlog that came from that computer glitch. There are more than 60,000 case in the bay area tonight. As for california, in the last 24 hours, the state reported 8,300 new cases. About 1,000 more than the day before. The backlog of cases is the reason for the big spike. The number of californiana dying from the virus appears to be falling. Yesterday 104 people died. People in one east bay neighborhood say theyre extremely concerned about what happened early this morning. There was already worry about potential for coronavirus exposure as a house party but then things turned violent as the party ended in gunfire. It happened on the 2700 block. Tom jensen tells us neighbors are now fighting back. Reporter he says hes never been so close to a shooting in his life, not in his 20 years in america and not in the decade hes lived at his current home. I first thought they were fireworks. Reporter but it wasnt fireworks, something they say they have heard consistently coming from the rental home july. Gunfire erupted and people were hurt. It happened just after midnight sunday morning and this time against his better judgment, he says he went outside to take a look. I walked out and i saw a lot of people and there was like altercations and shouting and stuff. So my wife, shes like, hey, come back. Im calling the police. Reporter he says some of the party goers were also yelling to call the police and police cars arrived before he knew it. The rest of the suspects in the shooting and there was a, quote, large altercation involving many party goers. The party went a little bit overboard. During the pandemic. Ubling parties like the one in union c leaders have been telling people to avoid. Alameda county currently has the most cases of bay county. Reporter i tried to talk to a group of people gathered in the backyard of the rental home about what happened and about neighbors concerned, but they declined to comment. I feel like there is a lot of people who republicare on the et now. Reporter hours after the shooting, neighbors started circulating a petition to get the renter evicted. The longtime prison guard is tonight being mourned. He passed away this mourning at the age of 55. Last month we reported he was in an induced coma at a South Bay Hospital contracting the virus amid an outbreak at the prison. Late night we learned another prisoner died because of complications because of covid19. Approximately 2,000 prisoners have tested positive and 24 have died. As we mentioned, Governor Newsom expected to hold a press Conference Tomorrow at noon. We will carry that on air and online. Now to a stunning end. Over a year ago, a student at cal was Winning College golf tournaments. He forever wrote his name in the record books. He won the pga champion. With the win he takes home a cool 2 million. That will take care of any College Loans he had. He tried lifting the large trophy and, whoa, the top fell off. Thats cool everything was fine. Got a lot of laughs. Afterwards, he spoke about his amazing accomplishment. Its amazing. Its been a life goal obviously as a little kid watching everyone grow up, all these professionals. Something i always wanted to do. I felt very comfortable from the start as an amateur, junior golfer turning professional last year, but to finally close it off and come out here in San Francisco, pretty much my second home where i spent the last four years, its pretty special. I mean, did that just really happen . I still cant believe that colin won the pga championship. So hopefully that sums up my feeling. It feels like a dream. A lot of people have said, we first featured him years bag when he was playing at cal. We will hear more from his College Coach and his journey to today. Still ahead, a brawl outside a house of worship in Southern California. What caused this chaos . And leaving town to get gussied up. The one state people are flocking to. So they will enjoy a little pampering. And after today in the upper 90s in walnut creek, were still 74 degrees outside. We will talk about the forecast that brings more heat and tropical clouds our way. Look at that when we come right back. Feel like youve watched all the things . Now theres more to love with xfinity x1, the ultimate entertainment experience. Like live sports. Theyre back with the best way to watch. And more streaming apps all in one place. More classics. More premiers. Plus, more to easily find using just your voice. Hello, more. Where have you been all my life . Find your favorites and more all in one place with x1. Plus, get speed, coverage and security with the xfi gateway. Xfinity. The future of awesome. Well, the number you see right there, they are staggering. More than five million cases of coronavirus across the united states. That accounts for roughly a quarter of the cases worldwide. More than 163,000 people have died in the u. S. Not just a number. Virus spreading rapidly jumping from four to five million cases in 17 days. Texas now seeing its highest positivity day yet. Tensions road as a church decided to defy state orders. Kathy park has more. Reporter tonight the Coronavirus Crisis deepening with the country hitting five million cases. These five states combined making up more than 40 of the infections, including california, where the death toll topped 4,000. This morning in ventura county, screaming, slapping and shoving during a clash ahead of church where pro mass demonstrators gathered. Emotions running high where theyre defying statewide orders with indoor services. This government doesnt give us our rights. God gave us these rights. Reporter in the hot spot state of texas, experts recorded a high positivity rate. In georgia where this back to school photo went viral showing students shoulder to shoulder in the hallway, the principal now says the school will be closed tomorrow and tuesday after six students and three Staff Members at the high school had tested positive for the virus. The school suspended this girl who posed the images. I knew walking in masks werent mandatory. But i did trust them to keep us safe. Reporter and more questions tonight about the state of college sports. The big 10 announcing they will slow down preseason football practices with no pads and no cat between athletes. Analysts believe the fallout is just beginning. I think we will not have a season in the fall. There is just too many challenges. It is like trying to thread a needle from 200 yards. Too much can go wrong. Reporter people packed main street, bars and concert no onea pig, but were going to find out. Closed no longer. San francisco Public Libraries were forced to shut down in march because of the pandemic but now some are reopening. Beginning tomorrow the citys main library will offer curbside pickups and drop offs. Followed by many more locations in the coming weeks. You can ask for a big or dvd, audiobook by going to the librarys website. Once the book is ready, you will get a notice to drop by and pick it up. Members of our lady of lebanon prayed for those affected by last weeks explosion in beirut. They moved it to the parking lot of the church. A lot of the families have relatives or they know someone killed or injured in that massive explosion on tuesday. More than 150 people were killed. Nearly 3,000 tons of nitrate exploded. So the majority that i talk with, all of them are so upset, so sad for what happened. Church leaders say hope is needed more than ever. And as the pandemic continues. Well, in beirut, protesters remain in the street demanding government leaders quit over last weeks explosion. They say government negligence and explosion as a cause of that blast that killed more than 150 people. The disaster comes on top of economic strife. People in North Carolina did not expect an earthquake to rattle them aweek this morning. It shook most of the state. Sparta is 100 miles north of charlotte. It is the most powerful earthquake to hit North Carolina in more than 100 years. It was felt in south carolina, tennessee and virginia. There have been no reports of any deaths or injuries. Video like this on social media shows some streets and buildings. Hand on the uvas fire. A time lapsed video of the fire in the area of uvas. Tonight the fire 80 contained. About 14 acres burned. Smaller fire in the hills southeast of san jose burns two acres. And weve got a menu of temperatures coming our way. Rob joining us now to explain how were getting a little bit of everything, rob. Yeah. In just about a half hour to an hour drive you could have gone 50s through 100 degree temperatures right now. Right now, some low clouds around San Francisco. Temperatures in the 50s outside, 58 degrees. Highs earlier today in the mid60s. Walnut creek and concord, chances are your ac that high of 98 degrees. If that is too warm or too hot, san jose right in the middle. Numbers in the mid60s. Were in the upper 80s. And through tomorrow we will see temperatures very similar, maybe not quite as hot inland. The good news here is the stronger sea breeze will be better air quality tomorrow. Right now the moderate areas will be around the central area. Not spare the air levels whatsoever. Just a few areas of spoke in the upper levels of the atmosphere. Ground looking pretty good. For the morning you may have some drizzle for the morning around the coast, including San Francisco. Temperatures in the 50s to low 60s. Tomorrow upper 80s around san jose today. I do think we will get more low 90s. Tri valley where 95 degree temperatures tomorrow. Bay side pretty comfortable. Similar from wed road city. Colder though out towards the coast. Highs in the low 60s, mid60s for San Francisco and north bay temperatures in the 80s again for santa rosa, napa and sonoma. There is some fog. But whats interesting are these clouds right here coming up thursday into friday. The Tropical Storm we think will eventually become briefly a hurricane is expected to weaken as it moves off to the west coast of baja. But notice where some of that cloud cover is likely to end up. We will switch over to the moisture view here. You can see how some of that is heading towards california. Right now high level clouds. Well stay tuned on this thursday into friday as some of that lower level moisture sheers away from the weakening tropical system. Sometimes can be a recipe for seeing few isolated showers. More clouds and unfortunately if you dont like heat, more of that, too, as we head towards last weekend. San Francisco May finally break out of these days in the 60s. Second half of the week into the 70s. You dont notice it much around San Francisco or the coast, but tuesday and wednesday upper 80s as opposed to upper 90s like we saw toe day and second half of the week temperatures rebound again. Were mid90s to maybe near 100 degrees in a few spots around the inland east bay. Temperatures rising for the second half of the week. Stay tuned to see who might see the slight chance of a few sprinkles. Were stretching here because its august. We dont really get chances of rain. Well take a look at that. We wont call it rain. Okay, rob. Thank you. Coming up, looking to the past to help future deliveries. Amazons new plan to get your packages out faster. Later an in depth look at the navaho nation. The area hit hardest by covid. We made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. 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They spent 1,600 hours in school studying disinfection and how to keep clients safe. Amazon is looking at the stores of two former countries. Amazon is looking at old jc penny and sears stores. Assuming they would be near a lot of people, it would make it easier for delivery drivers to pick up and drop off items those living closeby. Back in june, they were closing more than 150 stores after filing for bankruptcy. It was closing approximately 100 stores. While he was playing golf at cal a little more than a year ago. Now hes being crowned pga champion. Well hear from him and his coach and search for video we dug up during his time at berkeley. Experience the ultimate sports hub. Where you can find games, news and highlights. All in one place, right on your tv. The xfinity sports zone. Use your voice to search every stat, standing and score. Follow the teams you love. And, even get notifications with breaking news alerts and more. So youll never miss an update. With the xfinity sports zone everybody wins. Now thats simple, easy, awesome. Click, call or visit a store for details. Well, make no mistake about it, colin is really good at golf. What happened over the past four days in San Francisco has changed his life forever. The 23yearold, 23yearold won the pga champion in resounding fashion letting the golf world know he could be the sports next world star. A year ago he was over at cal playing golf there. He has won pga tournaments including todays major. He played at harding hark several times and today he talked about that being an advantage. You pished it helped a little more, but i still had to read the greens and come out here and be prepared to play. I guess it helped enough. Its in different shape now than it is most days. Afterwards he shared a special moment with his dwirl friend. The only golfer from cal to ever win a major tournament. Two years ago, almost to the day, august 13th, 2018, we profiled him when he was over at cal. During his time at berkeley he became the only fourtime all american in school history. We spoke with the coach tonight who couldnt contain his happiness for a former star player. I think it is an inspiration to a lot of young aspiring athletes that regardless of your age or quote, unquote experience you can still achieve at a high level if you believe in yourself. But i will honestly say cal has he helped me grow as a coach. He really taught me that you can really achieve anything you put your mind to. And coach chen shared a nugget about him. He said when the team would eat breakfast, he would pour milk into the bowl first and then the cerela. That is the real breakfast of champions. It was a wild day as the as and astros went after each other. Ramon liriano got hit by a pitch for the second time. The astros dugout started jawing back and forth. Mlb explicitly told teams that bench clearing brawls would be strictly punished. The league does not want things like this happening, players in close contact. You can expect a lot of suspensions from both teams. The as swept the astros and have now won nine straight games. Were back in a moment. One of the regions hit hardest by the pandemic was the navaho nation stretching through parts of arizona, new mexico and utah. Doctors and nurses traveled to the area to help overwhelmed hospitals treating covid19 patients. Theyre finally winning the battle. You might say the vastness of navaho nation would have spared these people have that suffered so much, but the coronavirus did not pass them by. Like many year, crystal and her family live far off the grid. It hit people that we knew and love and respected. Reporter her fears centered on her ckdown since march. It has forced me as a mother to think about how do i protect my children. Reporter its a question many ask but especially here where the coronavirus killed more people per capita than any u. S. State. Systemic poverty and the lack of access to Running Water created a perfect storm for the deadly virus. But against those odds, something incredible happened. Navaho nation flattened the curve. Early on we were seeing positivity rates in the 30 to 40 rate, so incredibly high, which really just told us we needed to be doing much more testing. Reporter and they did. Leaders also set up strict curfews every night at 8 00 p. M. And often for entire weekends. A steep fine for disobeying. You had lockdowns much tougher than the rest of the country. Exactly. You see people here Wearing Masks with 100 compliance. Reporter why did they act so history . They know their history and they know they cant count on other people to solve this for them. Reporter fair to say that as long as we have been keeping statistics about things, it has been clear that native americans fair less well when it comes to infectious disease. Thats fair to say. Inadequate access to health care, to water, to basic Public Health infrastructure. Reporter this is not a question of race, but of racism, essential essentially. Institutional racism. Reporter while hes proud that his people flattened the curve, he says the crisis is not over. This is serious. Its life or death. Reporter what should the rest of america know . Were still struggling right in the middle of the united states. Reporter he hopes people see what happened here cautionary tale. Youre really saying Public Health guidelines work if you stick to them. Listen to your professionals. The administration in d. C. Would be the same, even the states around us would be the same. Reporter nbc news from navaho nation. Some concerns tonight about air quality. Researchers say many schools are poorly ventilated. Heres candace nguyen. Keeping children outdoors will not always be an option. Researchers say with covid19, this invisible problem can no longer remain unseen. Eric clark says he started caring about the air inside his sons classroom before the pandemic. In 2018, he said, the campfire filled schools with smoke and debris. Kids were complaining about nausea and vomiting. I went in with an air pollution meter and checked the numbers at the schools and saw it was really bad. Reporter how bad . He worked at a robotics engineer for nasa and said the air pollution was 5 to 10 times higher than at his home. I sent a letter the superintendent and they said, yeah, its a known issue. Reporter uc berkeley scientists have documented underventilation for years. Schools have kept the issue on the back burner. Because it is somewhat of an invisible issue. Reporter ventilation is now at the forefront. The virus can spread through respiratory droplets and teresar with Uc Davis Energy and efficiency institute. Before the pandemic, she worked with scientists and visited 104 classrooms across california, including the bay area. They found 85 of classrooms with hvacs were still underventilated, meaning not enough outside air was coming in. Most of the system, she says, werent maintained or set up properly. We wouldnt say it was accessible for kids so why would we think it is acceptable to send kids back to classrooms on a daily basis . Reporter many were funded by prop 39, approved in 2012 that allocated nearly 2 billion to cases for schools called Energy Efficiency projects. Nbc bay area requested an interview with the commission numerous times, but they declined saying in a statement good Indoor Air Quality should be a given for every student. The California Energy commission collaborates to provide the necessary training and tools to the division of the state architect to their inspector can see Energy Compliance with bay code. There is no california statute that focuses on classroom ventilation safety. The state fires them to submit ventilation tests but schools arent part of that requirement. Californias division of state architect, which provides construction oversight for schools also declined our multiple request for an interview but said in an email Facility Maintenance is up to the school districts. Districts have different capacities, so some districts who are underfunded have limited staff. Nancy is a superintendent of the office of education which will receive the school her son goes to. She dez moving forward, it may become a priority. A question parents may have now is why isnt schools addressed this more effectively earlier . We did address a creative really extensive pandemic plan about ten years ago. Without having that direct understanding of all the complex impact of the kind of pandemic were experiencing right now, i think you dont even know in advance what to prepare for. Reporter but park says school and state leaders shouldnt have waited for this pandemic to think about making air quality a priority. It is not issue. It is an every day issue. Reporter for him an every day issue. It just doesnt feel safe, yeah. Reporter they introduced a bill that would require schools to submit test results before receiving funds. His office says the bill focuses on Energy Efficiency, not safety. Nbc bay area news. We have taken an in depth look into the Upcoming School year. We posted the full episode of keeping up in the classroom online. You can watch it at nbc bay area. Com. Still ahead, as california deals with a surge of cases, hospitals across the state are doing what they can to treat patients. Tonight well give you a look at one hospital hit especially hard. Thats next. A hot finish around the week end. 98 degrees earlier in dublin. When the heat could be making a big comeback later on when we come right back. Great day on the lake it is. Lunch is cookin and i saved a bunch of money on my boat insurance with geico. Fellas, can it get any better than this . Whoa my old hairstyle grew back. So did mine. [80s music] what . I was an 80s kid. It only gets better when you switch and save with geico. With nearly 555,000 confirmed cases, california has the most covid cases in the country. Tonight an inclusive look inside one Southern California hospital hit especially hard. L. A. County is one of two Public Hospitals serving l. A. Medical team. Re was supposed to but it was deemed too risky, so nbc had the hospitals own team shoot video of what it is like for doctors and nurses on the front lines. Reporter this is one of the countrys busiest hospitals, l. A. County usc medical center. We are running at full speed here. Now treating the poorest and sickest patients in all of los and deaths skyrocketed in july. That is a huge toll to take every day, knowing that you are the only person, maybe the last person who speaks to them. Reporter and it is a toll that pushed the hospital and its workers to the brink. Tell the human story. Tell the story of our patients. Tell the story of the exhausted staff. Dr. Brad is a chief medical officer here. On the front lines every day with his army of dedicated physicians and nurses. Trying to help the sickest patients survive and risking their own lives to do it. It is super stressful to have to put on the layers of protection and walk into the danger zone day after day after day. Its not a marathon. Its not a sprint. Its both. Reporter their emergency room nearly reaching capacity a few weeks ago after california began to reopen. Their icu overwhelmed with critical patients. They cannot oxygenate, no matter what they do, how they breathe or what position you get them in. So you are basically watching someone suffocate. Reporter now the numbers are stabilizing, but the emotion drain is still high. I have kids at home and i have an elderly mother taking care of my kids. So taking care of my patients and worrying about spreading the virus home to parents. Reporter with this virus being unpredictable and flu season fast approaching, doctors fear another crisis is coming. How quickly can things go back to the worst Case Scenario . How quickly can that pendulum swing . Well, at peak we were getting 25 new positive patients per day. 25 to 30 new positive patients a day and half of them end up in the icu, within a week were in serious trouble. Reporter still, there are many people that doubt the severity of the pandemic, something these doctors find it hard to understand. You have seen criticism about what some people call the plandemic or that it is being blown out of proportion by the media or health officials. What is your response to that . Come in to my icu. Come watch. Patients and families are being crushed. What were seeing is the working poor getting flights out. Were really asking for the publics help to get this situation under control so we dont run out of hospital beds so our staff dont all get sick. Thank you, guys. Keep it up. Doctors say the hardest part is the emotional toll we saw. Caring for critical ill patients every day who are not allowed to have any family Members Around them in the hospital. Turning now to the weather, we have a whole lot of weather for the upcoming workweek. Rob . Yeah. All kinds of temperatures. In fact, right now, were still seeing a pretty big spread of temperatures. You dont often see that around the bay area. Mid60s closer to san jose. If you look closely, we do have the low clouds, which has settled in to San Francisco. 58 degrees. We will be waking up to similar temperatures there. The low clouds around the inner bay, approaching watsonville and gill roy for the morning. For the afternoon, a similar spread of temperatures, which means 60s on the coast. Were not thinking close to the upper 90s. Low 90s for the afternoon. Mid to upper 80s for the afternoon. Another day in the 90s. 70s from oakland into hayward. You will notice from the coast, a cool 63 in halfmoon bay. 80s on the other side of the coastal rains. San francisco, you still got that sea breeze going with misty skies. More 60s for you and north bay temperatures tomorrow mostly in the low to mid80s. Want to show you the changes though tuesday and wednesday. The east bay inland tri valley down towards morganville tuesday and wednesday do look cooler. But thats about it. We will see temperatures rising as we go through the week. And also the added bonus maybe of seeing these tropical clouds from a weakening Tropical Storm. Notice here the green here on this map. Some of this is drifting towards california. Right now it just looks like high clouds. But if for any reason, we get mid level moisture, on occasion this can be a source for dry lightening. Something we have to watch closely the way fire season has been shaping up right now. Not in the forecast, but we will be watching that closely. Another thing you will notice is the temperatures on the rise. San francisco we should see 70s. A warming trend as we head towards next weekend. And originally we thought more cooling next week, dropping into the upper 80s. Once behead towards thursday and even into next weekend, looks like the 90s will be here today. More upper 90s in the forecast. Right now, unlike last week, well call for a chance of tropical clouds maybe towards thursday and friday as the temperatures rise heading towards next weekend. Back to you. Rob, thanks very much. Were back with more in two minutes. We made usaa insurance for veterans like liz and mike. An army family who is always at the ready. So when they got a little surprise. Two . They didnt panic. They got a bigger car for their soontobebigger family. After shopping around for insurance, they called usaa who helped find the right coverage for them and even some muchneeded savings. That was the easy part. Usaa insurance is made the way liz and mike need it easy. The amazon is once again under threat. Fires are burning in the world east largers rain forest, sometimes called the lungs of the earth. Government da to shows that fires have surged this month. Renewing concerns about the forest destruction. Environmentalist blames the president. Uc santa cruz is teaming up with the county to help more people get tested for the virus. The schools lab was able to use 805,000 from the cares act to buy more testing equipment. The extra tools will allow the lab to process up to 8,000 tests a day. More and more Health Organizations are turning to the lab for testing. One reason for that is because theyre able to get test results back to people in 24 to 48 hours. Draymond green just found out that putting in his two cents cost him 50,000. Green has been spending time with an analyst for tnt since the nba turned into action. Warriors arent playingment he was complimenting devin booker and said booker needs to, quote, get out of phoenix. The nba viewed that as maybe tampering. Maybe come play for the warriors. Today the nba fined green 50,000. Today he said, maybe. Celebrating the bear that reminds us all say it, terry. You say it, low voice. Only you can prevent forest fires. Smokey bear celebrating his 76 birthday today. Anoushah rasta, you worked on that. I chickened out. You can get his 77th next year. Hes been around a long time. Hes the star of the longest running Public Awareness campaign in u. S. History. Hes encouraged campers to be responsible with campfires to prevent forest fires. Very good. Were back with more in just two minutes. You are going to do it next year. Join nbc bay area for best in show stories. Learn more at nbcbayarea. Com. The pandemic has been a very lonely time for residents at Senior Centers and their loved ones. One center in corpus christi, texas has found a way for families to come together. It is called a hugging booth. It is a sheet of plastic with holes and gloves. But it allows families to hug each other for the first time in some cases in five months. It felt amazing. It is something you dont want to let go. You want to keep holding her. I havent been able to physically touch her since february. It has been a long time coming. My gosh that feels so good. The Senior LivingCenter Director says everything at the hugging booth is cdc friendly. Meaning, they wipe down everything with two kinds of cleaners between each use. Theyre taking care of people. They dont want to spread it but they want that feeling you can only get from touching another human being. Five months, thats a long time to not see a loved one or give them a hug. Yeah. Little things you take more granted. Lets take a look around the bay area right now. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s places. We have a week that will be warm, hot and then warm and then hot again. Maybe some moon sons. Maybe. Slightly. Little bit. Not a lot. Thanks for joining us. Have a good night. Take the virus is still spreading. Californias economic challenges are deepening. Frontline workers stretched too thin. Our nurses and medical professionals in a battle to save lives. Our schools, in a struggle to safely reopen, needing money for masks and ppe, and to ensure social distancing. And the costs to our economy, to our state budget