Possibility, but california governor Gavin Newsome said in his press conference on tuesday the school year may started bit earlier this summer nowhere to key common one more lie. What if right earlier this month, the governor also addressed with school may look like next year staggered schedules an extra cleaning obviously none of us ever could have imagined that this would be our reality. Ever. Its like something you read in a book you know andrea frazee is a Kindergarten Teacher and an e r she says teachers will do what they can jump in and teach students in any way possible. In the classroom or from home if distancelearning continues i guess theres so many and. I mean teachers are notoriously flexible but i think there would be a lot of questions going in just so that we can be shorts the. To be ready to be on the right track with that we have the best teachers in the nation and we have the best staff in the nation in the east bay, michelle kingston kron 4 news. Well we had california state superintendent Tony Thurmond weighing in on the idea of starting the school year early. He spoke with cnn about what classrooms might look like when they reopen and he also talked a bit about the possibility of staggering students schedules. Theres some thought that given that you you know for us to smaller class sizes safe, we ended up with you know 10 students in a class d theres some consideration that we may have to have shifts in how school operated there may need to be a morning shift in an afternoon shift. Uh this is not easy work as we think ahead, we have to think about how we might be an open School Safely that means smaller class sizes sometimes in tight spaces, so weve got to give a lot of thought to how were going to do that how we do that safely. And went on to say that any decision will be made with both student and staff a staff safety as the priority. Well in addition to reopen the schools Governor Newsom also laid out his plans to reopen the states economy in 4 stages. So the current stay at home orders phase one Health Officials say will move to phase 2 in a matter of weeks not months which they say would allow people in a lowrisk jobs to go back to work under increased safety socialist and guidelines of course these include things like retail and manufacturing jobs than face to would include the reopening a public spaces like beaches and parks and childcare facilities. Childcare is Economic Development childcare is foundational to getting people back to work phase 2 is in weeks not months face 3, 4, months, not weeks. Face 3 allows those highrisk jobs like salons and Entertainment Venues like movie theaters to go back to work in Person Religious Services and weddings will also be resumed at that point and then stage for marks the end of california stay at home order and that allows for larger things like concerts and live sporting events and conventions. Although the governor says that we are as he said weeks away from going into phase 2 he wont commit to exactly how many weeks that is. A recent survey from the Bay Area Council i which is a nonprofit that monitors, the civic and economic interests of the bay area found that a majority of people think the economy should reopen sometime in the next 30 days. We talk with the ceo Jim Wunderman about why its so important to reopen soon. The our poll showed about 80 of support for the actions that have been taken by the government to really protect the public and get us where we are today which is ahead of other regions are within our state and country. But theres also a realization that he was some point we need to get folks back on the job we need to get the economy going again and that is a view that uh you know now that weve been sheltering in place for a while i know its time to get a real certain plants going so that we can resume our economy where we are at great risk here, you know a lot of folks have laid off people will be a lot more of that happening if they can see clear Getting Started again soon. And winner and went on to say that Industries Like construction should be able to resume fairly quickly, but he understands that other industries will take a bit longer and he adds the Governor Newsome has a very tough job right now, a finding that proper balance. Starting today, Sonoma County residents can return to county parks. But only parks within walking or biking distance to their homes and this is just one part of the looser restrictions that are coming to Sonoma County over the next week with kron fours taylors sacking now to explain. By tomorrow you can you can visit some of our parks here in Sonoma County. Not all parks and nothing in the coastal zone. Parking lots will be still will be closed and it really only those parks that you can walk or ride to so not accessible to quite all on wednesday. Sonoma county is reopening some of its parks only if you can walk or bike to them. Sonoma county board supervisor david rabbit says. Driving to the park is not allowed no playgrounds no restrooms no Hard Services that can stuff in of course still required to have facial coverings and social distancing despite these limitations, he says more changes will follow in the next week as part of a new shelter in place order a new order is a slightly different its a loosened up some what it does allow for some additional activities in occupations to take place which i think is a good thing, including construction both residential a new commercial construction. He says the new water will also allow nurseries florists in real estate to reopen as long as social distancing protocols are in place while they wont be an end date listed in the new order. Board supervisor surely xience is one things for sure no gatherings throughout the summer the one item that has a date on it is a big gatherings. There will be no gatherings need or smile or large try to enter public until at least labor day so that that will happen during the summer time which is expected to affect many in their hospitality and service industries, a lot of our restaurants are not going to make yet. Im seeing that there will probably face about a 25 . Closure rate zain says she worries how that will Impact Mental Health in the coming weeks and months the psychological fallout when somebody loses their business and goes through all of that trauma. The trauma is basically cumulative and theres a lot of people are in this county youre been very traumatized. Dean says this is yet another hardship, the county is forced to go through the experience to large wildfires in a major flood in the last 3 years, im Taylor Bisacky reporting kron 4 news. The Santa Cruz County leaders are now thinking about putting new restrictions back into place its beaches after what they saw over the weekend. We have video that was captured out a Pleasure Point you can see a lot of people many of them too close together. The county recently reopened many of its beaches after easing the local shelter in place order but county spokesperson jason hoppen says that those rules are about to get tightened right back up again. We saw what we have a large number of people on that that looked to be a refuge charges where there are more restrictive measures in place on parts beaches central to our candy recreational. Its important to physical Mental Health to maintain a. But theres no central reason that route across very large to recreate. Between friday and sunday Law Enforcement across Santa Cruz County issued more than 200 citations and now county leaders are considering living beach access. What people can bring to the beach and also enforcing tighter parking in moreover on forsman in general in Pacific Beach days are off limits unless you live nearby. This was the scene tuesday. And as you can see pretty barren. The citys Police Department says this past weekend was or this past weekend they ordered more than 700 peopleto leave the beach because they didnt live within 5 miles. They were out there checking. Law enforcement in San Mateo County says that they may start citing people who are following the shelterinplace order and those citations can range anywhere from 50 to 10,000. In confirmed cases of coronavirus in the u. S. With more than 58,000 deaths. Thats the highest number thats higher than the number of people that were killed in vietnam in terms of us soldiers here in the bay area there are more than 7800 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 277 deaths. And the numbers by county continue to show Santa Clara County leading as the hardest hit county with a 106 deaths, san Mateo San Francisco in alameda counties have all reported more than a 1000 cases and you can find a complete list of cases broken down by county and by city on our website at kron 4 dot com. According to the latest data from the California Department of Public Health close to 45 of all cases of the virus in the state are from the latin next community. The Asian Community makes up about 12 of cases and the black community makes up a little more than 6 . We spoke with oakland mayor libby schaff about the Alameda CountyRacial Disparity task force that was set up and what its doing for these communities at risk. That underlying risk conditions like diabetes and heart and lung disease. Show up 2 to 3 times more in for example, the africanamerican and native communities than in other groups and so we know that these groups are going into this pandemic already at higher risk and what were doing we are really trying to get testing to where our most vulnerable are asked us we launched a mobile testing unit with our partners at rates Community Health clinics and were starting im a really wonderful way to outrage directly to people that might not have as good access to information with the great oakland check and we actually are going to have person to person phone calls starting in some of our most vulnerable communities. A covid19 Testing Center in hayward is reporting that it has tested almost 500 people who are positive for coronavirus the Testing Center opened at cal state 5 weeks ago and since then. The site has tested nearly 4500 people. The numbers include residents and employees of Nursing Homes as well as a number of homeless. People anyone can get tested for free if they have a fever above a 100 degrees or other symptoms like a cough or shortness of breath, but you have to schedule it so make sure you contact him. Our coverage of the coronavirus is always there on kron 4 dot com. Our website. The main page has all the information you need with the latest updates on the news and on the Health Aspects of it you can find again all that theyre kron 4 dot com were going to take a quick break time now for 11 when you need it, jack delivers order on uber eats, postmates and grubhub. My new bitesized, crispy popcorn chicken is so when you need it, jack delivers irresistible youll want them whenever, so dont resist pop em while you game, hang, or do your thing. Pop my 100 allwhitemeat classic or spicy popcorn chicken combo for just 5. 99. Temperatures this week have been drawing larger crowds to local parks and as kron fours Maureen Kelly tells us rangers at the east bay, Regional Parks want visitors to do a better job of physical distancing. At berkeleys tilden park, the main road to lay kansas is blocked off. There is no lifeguard on duty which means no swimming in the lake and while few teenagers flouted the rules other visitors who showed up to swim, were satisfied just soaking in the natural surroundings, im incredibly grateful. I wouldnt. Be able to skirt 5. I dont think without it its been huge. Yeah i i feel really grateful to live in a place that has so many wild spaces that are so easy to access the picnic tables have been around with yellow caution tape. A visual reminder of the current rules, folks know they need a social distance at a camp picnic groups are gathering right now these are important things are the safety of the Public Employees theyve mason the spokesperson for the east bay, Regional Park district says right now theyre Police Officers are explaining the rules to those found violating the shelterinplace orders and not issuing citations hed like to see visitors do a better job we need you know even better compliance with the social distancing, including wearing a mask with a new to within 6 feet of others and making sure that they keep their dogs on leash right now were asked the public to do that to help the team. So it is among humans. And also just make sure theyre a you know keeping the smart in the bathrooms may be exposing to always bring was and thats really a given that will decide the year and with the heat. This time of year the park districts helicopter is a patrolling but now is not just keeping an eye out for things like fire danger and other emergencies but also looking out for crowds and picnicking which should not be happening. Under the shelterinplace orders Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. Well with some more parks opening up this week, particularly the north bay were going to have families wanting to get out get some exercise with the kids so lets find out what kind of weather. We can expect weve got john trouble with that on this wednesday morning hey john. And theyre james yeah, weve got a big cool down today. I think todays weather might actually make a lot of people stay indoors its cooler its going to be cloudier as well throughout the day that something you can already seen from berkeley skies, definitely on the cloudy side as of right now its not on the foggy side fog pushes up into those east bay hills temperatures are still mild so a comfortable start right now conquered europe 58 pits forget 61 while double in Oakland Redwood city in fairfield all at a cool but comfortably cool 57 degrees the High Pressure ridge that brought conditions yesterday is gently sliding out of the region and so the return of fog and cool marine air is pushing back in across the bay, one of the reasons the cool down today as that cold front thats also sliding in behind the social cool theyre so all in all a 10 degree cool down for many areas its going to be a noticeable one you can see the Storm Tracker 4 here that cloud cover that is settled in across the bay, its pretty obvious and its going to stay with us through the day today. Tomorrow you will notice increase clearing as compared to today, but temperatures will remain cooler as we make our way into the weekend a little bit cooler ye your best chance of a few light showers looking likely on sunday really your only chance of showers is forecast todays daytime highs, no 80s up the map, although still close in antioch kidnappers will santa rosa at 79 oakland 70 conquered and san jose at 77 while San Francisco down into the upper 60s with cloudier skies remaining through the day today now into tomorrow we will see fog during the morning but increase sunshine later in the day temperatures right around the same as todays will be as will be the case on friday to saturday and sunday getting cooler you get so its going to be a cooler we given what weve gotten used to before a warm up into next week thats a look at your forecast also to back to james all right john thank you very much is a quick check of the roads this morning, the bay bridge approach camera showing a slight traffic we had one incident earlier this morning, a Traffic Accident inside bore number one of the called a cop tunnel looks like theyve been able to move that out. By now, but for a little while we have the slow lanes blocked. So far so good though everywhere else the san mateo bridge looking fine in fact live camera here in 92 shows that westbound eastbound traffic moving moving equally well this morning, well keep an eye out of the chp reports any other problems out there. We will let you know in the meantime lets get back to the news and Solano County will remain under a shelterinplace order through midmay despite the extension, one hair salon is back in business. Leah rivera reopened her salon in downtown vacaville today after a sixweek closure. She says that she understands the potential fine and the jail time that she may face for defying the county health order. But she says her services are essential to her clients. Im beginning to become worried about the liability that army seized. If these kinds of permanent an. First of all your mates on their hair, its you know 3, 6, months that they before they can get in. Im not willing to take that risk event. Rivera says the chances to keep the salon capacity to fewer than 5 people in that everyone inside will be Wearing Masks and gloves. A michigan man facing fraud charges now for allegedly targeting Health Care Workers here in the bay area. Investigators say 24 yearold Rodney Stevenson the second made up a company and falsely claimed to have the desperately needed and 95 masks in stock they say the stevens and then made sales despite not having any of those masks, 3 of the 4 victims in this case are from the bay area, including one hospital employee. Stevenson faces now a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. Trend during the covid19 pandemic shows that criminals are using a cough as their weapon. The fbi says its cracking down on those offenders with kron 4 says he can do now to explain. The boys of that store. To the right thing in not into each to with somebody that tension was carrying a demo by risk to women cover lead over al a and resent us a buzz have been arrested on federal charges in connection to using a cop as a weapon during a robbery back on april 6 2020 inside a walgreens in San Franciscos tenderloin neighborhood fbi special agent in charge john bennett and they were approached by offshore personnel. They began to cost you know pretty. All pretty aggressively and then they always told everybody that covid and so in their own they were they were telling people they were positives for for this fires, this comes on the heels of a similar incident allegedly involving this unidentified woman inside a retail store, the lay whoa. No arrest in that case. Fbi investigators say these crimes are part of a disturbing trend nationwide were seeing an increased and sam, this type of fraud and other types of fraud that are that surrounds pandemic we a pretty pretty clear on director for oem director of the fbi and the attorney general wants else that thats this type of behavior obviously stopped officials at the fbi say in some cases depending on the circumstances what would otherwise be considered a petty theft crime can be ratcheted up to an act of terrorism he said there is biologic weapon and viruses and then that tend eat less then sings songs such as terrorism charges could be considered. However there were no terrorism charges and the law greens case, the 2 female suspects were charged with violating the federal hobbs act which involves robbery or extortion affecting interstate commerce a crime punishable up to 20 years in prison, the fbi stands ready to bring federal tools that we have at our disposal to ensure that these fighters are states go to work has it led you kron 4 news. Heres a quick live look outside a shot here of the Golden Gate Bridge as we take a quick break little foggy out there as john was talking about if you missed his forecast stick around. Well have another update from him coming up in just a bit time now is 4. 22 well be right back. And were back up until now californians out of independent contractors and people who are self employed has seen no financial help to speak up. And that was supposed to change this week, but the States EmploymentDevelopment Department web site hasnt been up to the task apparently kron fours dan kerman reports after weeks of waiting tuesday marked today, californias edd website was ready for out of work Business Owners independent contractors self employed workers freelancers and give workers to apply for pandemic unemployment assistance this is really important to us to spend. Fiveplus weeks where weve had not had assistance from the government unfortunately applying for benefits proved to be a lot more difficult in calistoga Small Business owner cindy ive a stir expected the only place i can get to is to enter my drivers license and from there it always crashes have been known to be on that place. Its a familiar story for those going to the web site the site cross probably. At least a dozen times i think it was more to her. Hair stylist antonio molaro started trying to fill out the online form at 5. 30 in the morning. And each time he got to the last step the site crashed. Its not only frustrating, but its this hartman sanaa you know where you can get out. After a little over 3 hours of trying molaro was finally successful. Im extremely thankful. If when finally able to care on informants in style, ive been self employed for over 70 years on. Its have never happened before so i wasnt sure that i actually look at the health and you are it definitely will pay off in the air. Also the singers first. Ive a stir hasnt been as lucky the site continues to crash for her but she keeps trying what choice to have a choice to any mishap we have to keep trying so thats what well do. Officials with the Employment Development department tell kron 4 news that the web site actually isnt crashing. They say its just raining due to high volume. They say theyre trying to increase capacity and in the meantime they recommend those who are having trouble try again a little bit later. In San Francisco. Dan kerman kron 4 news. Heres a quick live look outside our bay bridge toll plaza camera showing us traffic nicely moving its way from oakland in the San Francisco. It is wednesday april 29th. Well take a quic mrs. Walker. Michael vasquez come over here. Ive heard such good things about you, your company. Well, i wouldnt have done any of it without you. Without this place. This is for you. Michael, you didnt have to. And, were going to need some help with the rest. Youve worked so hard to achieve so much. Perhaps its time to partner with someone who knows you and your business well enough to understand what your wealth is really for. Were back at 4. 30 the latest now on the coronavirus we understand that more than a Million People now have tested positive for coronavirus here in the u. S. With more than 58,000 of those dying thats more than the number of americans who died during the years of the vietnam war and the grim number comes as state start to loosen restrictions. Karen ca