Absolutely spread into the community at large. Reporter out of the 8000 prisoners statewide, only a couple hundred are expected to be released here from san quentin. There is support for this, obviously as we just saw but what more can you tell us that the timing of the releases . Reporter we are hearing that 3500 prisoners are expected to be released by the end of this month and it will continue until august and possibly go into september. Thank you. California experienced its deadliest week of the pandemic yet averaging more than 80 deaths per day and that is the average. Nearly 7800 new confirmed cases yesterday and yesterday 140 new debts. The test Positivity Rate is up to 7. 4. Los angeles county remains a hotspot for the most new cases. Right now Oakland Unified School district officials are holding a Virtual Meeting to discuss plans for the start of the school year next month and the meeting is just getting underway and the first day of instruction is set for august 10 and district leaders are expected to announce a plan on how teaching will look in the age of coronavirus. We will have and update coming up. The San Francisco zoo will be allowed to reopen on monday. Is a will have to follow through with approved safety plan and current members will be the first to access online reservations. All tickets must be prepurchased online and the city was initially supposed to open on june 29 along with Indoor Dining at the mirror reverse course after arising cases. Businesses have until monday to show that they have social distancing protocols. Otherwise they can open. Under the new Health Orders a business must complete an online form that shows it has proper signage, trains its employees and has an adequate plan to protect workers and the public should a staff member test positive. It will allow hair and nail salon scrimmage gyms and outdoor gatherings to resume business starting on monday, if they meet the requirements. You can find more information on the form for businesses as well as the current Health Orders for Santa Clara County and San Francisco at kpix. Com. Looking live right now at san jose with temperatures climbing today especially inland chief meteorologist come up paul heggen says he will stick around for the weekend. And it will climb even higher as we head into the second half of the weekend as if it is not hot enough already for inland portions of the bay area. 99 degrees in fairfield, 94 in santa rosa but around the water it is much more comfortable with the upper 60s at sfo and mid 60s downtown with low 70s on the east side of the bay and upper 50s on the coast. San jose in the mid80s. Tomorrow the temperatures will be similar to what we saw today with high temperatures mostly low 60s along the coast, upper 60s and low to mid 70s along the bay and upper 80s at best inland and mostly in the low to mid 90s and backup close to 100 degrees in fairfield and the same thing for antioch and brentwood. Even hotter temperatures on the way for sunday to take a look at the complete look at the forecast coming up. The next time someone is involved in a traffic stop it may not be a Police Officer who pulls them over da lin is live in berkeley with the first of its kind proposal. Reporter the idea is to have Berkeley Police focus on only filing crime and they would no longer pull drivers over and the ideas part of larger conversation on Reimagining Public Safety in berkeley after the george floyd shooting. Taking it to a civilian position, it still has the power to enforce. At the berkeley mayor said to train civilians, they would not carry a gun. They would still have all the Legal Authority for speeding and dangerous driving but it just would not be a Police Officer. Supporter say too many times traffic stops of turned deadly for drivers especially if they are black and brown theres nothing scarier than having a fully armed person walk up to you inside of your car and thats really scary. If it was a civilian then i would not feel that threatened. Have already dispatched social workers to 911 calls related to homelessness and Mental Illness and its another step toward reforming the Police Department and their role in the community. If things escalate then we have to bring police and at that time. Would that be too late . I the Police Department being focused on crime, we will have more officers that are able to respond quickly. The guy could be in the next county by then. They believe its ineffective and puts a civilian workers in danger. I think its terribly dangerous. The former berkeley Police Officer says some people have already challenge Police Officers during traffic stops so civilians would not stand a chance and he said it would be hard to call for backup if things escalate fast. They come up to the car and they pull out a gun and shoot you. Reporter the Police Department does not comment on Council Legislation and the City Council Set to vote on the proposal next tuesday and at this time it looks like there are enough votes to pass it and if it does move forward then the city will spend about one year to work out the details and if everything goes according to plan, we could see the civilians starting to conduct Traffic Enforcement stops as early as next summer. There are a lot of people talking about this. We want to know, do you think its a good idea to use unarmed patrols for traffic stops to ask you can weigh in on our kpix twitter and facebook pages. We received an update on the 11 hour standoff that led to three deputy shot and the suspect dead. And began yesterday morning as deputies responded to a house where woman reported her ex boyfriend was holding her hostage. She claimed she tied her up and poured gasoline on her and threatening to burn the house down. The woman made it out but the arm suspect, 44yearold man, stayed inside deputies say he fired at them over a period of several hours and it came to an end and a gun battle with deputies and he shot three deputies and they returned fire killing him. Have all been treated and released from the hospital. Investigators say they have no evidence connecting the remains found in a creek bed to the sierra lamark case. The remains were discovered in an unincorporated san jose near morgan hill and investigators believe lamar was kidnapped and murdered in morgan hill but her body has never been discovered and it appears there was a tent or homeless encampment or the human remains were found yesterday but it is still too early to tell if the remains were a man or a woman. Weve heard a lot of reports of coyote sightings but the Moraga Commons park is closing early after a child was bitten by a coyote. Authority say the child was bitten on the leg yesterday after encountering the coyote in the parking lot. Police, fish and wildlife are investigating and meanwhile experts a two prevent attracting wildlife store garbage containers that are difficult to turn over. The giants will be without one of their star players this season, if there is a season. Buster posey announcing that he is opting out. Vern glenn joins us now to explain the details. They just keep racking up. Ed Buster Poseys name to the stars passing on the short season. You take him, Felix Fernandez of the braves ryan zimmerman, right price and what do they have in common . They are all family men with young children. And Buster Poseys case he picked health over hovering around home plate. In the Early Morning press conference he address the final stages of a delicate adoption process that he and his wife were going through. Twin girls just born way ahead of time and posey the 2012 mvp and threetime world series champion six time allstar is already the father of two. Adding two more infants in the decision to sit out was simple. Overwhelmed with joy to welcome into our family and love them unconditionally. And share a life with them. The twins were born prematurely and thank god they are doing really well but i have decided to opt out of the 2020 baseball season. We feel its the best decision for the babies and for our family as well. Then there is this. Im full of sports news today. The pac12 announced conference only games for the 2020 football season one day after the big ten announced the same thing. I will see you the next hour. Giants fans are absolutely understanding of his situation and are thrilled. We are thrilled for him. I have not seen a crossword against buster posey all day and its all been, good for him. Saving the warriors, how steph curry stepped in to help a super fan who is actually fighting foreclosure. The president doubled down with the new threat to schools that will not reopen this fall as california pushes back a grand opening in a pandemic not only is the we have some breaking news we want to get you to right now. Moments ago we learned that the state has put Sonoma County on the watchlist for coronavirus and if conditions do not improve over the next 72 hours, the county will be subject to any restrictions as part of a statewide action to slow the spread. The restrictions will start as soon as monday and will be in place until the state takes further action which will be no earlier than july 22 the former Trump Campaign aide roger stone has told the Associated Press that the president called him to tell him he would commute his prison sentence and is expected to report to prison next week to serve three years for his role in the russian investigation. Stone claims he spoke with the president friday who said he thought the trial was unfair. President trump visited florida today, a coronavirus hotspot but is there to focus on combating Drug Trafficking and helping the people of venezuela. However, when the president did briefly address the pandemic he painted a rosier picture than his advisors. We are still doing very well and are getting back on track we are testing at a level no one has ever tested before. His comments directly contradicted those of his top Infectious Disease expert, dr. Fauci who says the president has made a lot of mistakes but in the meantime the rally in New Hampshire has been postponed because of Tropical Storm fay which has made landfall on the east coast bringing true powerful storm surges to delaware and flooding to new jersey. This comes as President Trump doubles down on his threat to cut federal funding to schools that they do not reopen for in prison classes in the fall. The president tweeting, Virtual Learning has per proven to be terrible compared to school or oncampus learning, not even close now taking it one step further he tweeted out that he has ordered the Treasury Department to reexamine the taxexempt status of schools that provide radical indoctrination instead of education. The president of the California SchoolBoard Association spoke out about the threats we need to wait until we have a better understanding of the disease and until we have the systems in place. It is not just about funding although that is very important. Its about how do you divide what is going to be a good method to keep students safe when the guidance is constantly changing . He sent the letters expressing concern about reopening and urging the state to prepare for possible federal budget cuts. The journal pediatrics published a new analysis that says children infrequently transmit covid19 to each other or two adults. The author says school should reopen in the fall if they follow social distancing guidelines. You can find continuing coverage of the developing situation with their schools on our website at kpix. Com back to school. Or governors imposing restrictions as coronavirus cases continue to explode. The governor of texas extended his disaster declaration and the michigan governor toughened up the master mask requirement and even though florida added 11,000 new cases, the governor insists there are not enough hospital beds and disney world reopens to the public tomorrow. At midnight las vegas will shut down its bars again. Restaurants will have their bar area is closed but they can still serve alcohol. And it is a tough time to be opening a new business but a new market restaurant is forging ahead in oakland. Today was the grand opening of the kitchenette rockies market along the waterfront and there is outdoor seating for breakfast, lunch and dinner at the restored ninth avenue terminal building. The owners say the patio has enough space to seat 65 customers with social distancing. If we did not feel like the situation we have with it all being outside, its breezy and openair and it feels like if theres anything that is a place that people want to come then it will be a place like this. The owners have another market in the oak more district and plan to donate a portion of the sales to supply free groceries to local families. Now time to get a check of the weather paul heggen is standing by tgif. Its been a long week and we are looking forward to nice weather this weekend. It is the weekend. You can put the words in whatever order you want because it is friday evening. Lets take a look at whats happening out there. The hot weather is still in the process of building and tomorrow the temperatures will be similar to today but the hot weather is going to take over and it will be toasty for inland potions of the bay area. We have seen an interesting perspective on the satellite view with high clouds floating through and those of the stripe cc moving south to north and also fog and local cloud cover along the coast and some of trying to stream through the golden gate with clouds very close to the ground with high clouds way up in the atmosphere filtering the sunshine and the fog is going to try to spread back out as we try to go through the rest of tonight and this evening with visibilities dropping to near zero in the city by early tomorrow with the fog spreading across the bay and it will retreat toward the coast as we head towards mid to late morning. Saturday and i stayed overall. Not seen as much of the fog streaming through the golden gate as we did a couple hours ago with the temperature showing the usual variation from 64 degrees downtown to 96 degrees in concord and 94 degrees and live a more and santa rosa and 85 degrees in san jose was 74 degrees in oakland. Temperatures are going to drop off as we head through tonight into the low to mid 50s and we are going to warm up as we go through the day. Temperatures end up close to normal around the bay along the coast and otherwise 5 to 10 degrees above normal and very close to where we ended up today. Upper 80s san jose in mid90s concord with hotspots even a little hotter than that. Low 60s along the coast with a onshore breeze hard to take upper 80s and some 90s for the Santa Clara Valley with the hottest locations, solano county, knocking on the doorstep of 100 degrees. Low to mid 90s up and down the tri valley and around the bay upper 60s and low to mid 70s. Upper 80s and low 90s for the north bay with some hot temperatures farther north as well with mid90s for northern sonoma and napa counties in upper 90s across much of mendocino counties with hotter temperatures on the way for sunday and i think all inland portions of the bay area will reach at least 90 with most spots mid to upper 90s. Italy, warmer along the coast along the bay and low to mid 70s around the bay with upper 60s along the coast and we gradually return to normal temperatures as we head through next week. And hour by hour look coming up. Still ahead, growing Something Special in San Franciscos bayview neighborhood. The goal is to bring people together. How a Community Garden has become a place for racial healing. How steph curry rallied the nations for the sweaty faces, and the hidden smiles. The foggy glasses, and the muffled laughs. A simple piece of fabric makes a big statement i care. Wear a mask. Lets all do our part to slow the spread. We give the assist to detonation and set curry. Lloyd has nicknamed himself the warrior man and probably painted the home the warriors blue and yellow colors and also has the warrior flags and banners everywhere but now he is at risk of losing his home if he cant come up with 350,000 soon. Steph curry once appeared in the music video in front of the home and shared it on his instagram and a gofundme page dedicated to helping him. So far it has raised 200,000. 180,000 already in todays. Everybody has seen what im going through. Even my pastor came by here last night 8 00. It went up even after we interviewed him the house is been in his family for 50 years and he has lived in the home since he was a child we are committed to bringing you positive stories in these tough times. Thats right. Don ford shows us whats growing in the bayview neighborhood. It may be a dirty and dusty place but it is also a breath of fresh air. With an acre of land, the florence asian Community Garden is one of the largest of its kind in San Francisco and organizer saves more than a garden but a place for racial healing, understanding and learning. It is exposing people that live in public housing. Bye bye guys i will see you at the office work everyone is welcome. They go growth food, corn and its gathered up and distributed to local folks who need help. This is the last privately owned farm we continue the legacy. The sevenyearold says you can put in anything you want as long as you care for it. Jalapenos. I like spicy stuff. This morning the local Farmers Market delivered extra produce to help build more meals and boxes and fresh vegetables are sorted for distribution along with the produce from the garden. Neighbors helping neighbors and its more than just a garden. We have to interface with so many other communities racial, social economic, whatever it is and the goal is to bring people together. 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