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Spreading in several counties. Alameda county reporting a new single day record a 334 new cases of covid19 and santa clara and Contra Costa County also reporting more than 200 new cases each a running list of coronavirus cases and deaths can always be found on our website kron 4 dot com. And all 9 bay area counties are currently on the states watch list which has forced the closure of so many businesses that had temporarily reopened now one barry county, the Health Officer there. Well is now calling out the state saying how counties get on that watch list in the first place isnt accurate for more now on the story to kron fours dan kerman he joins us now live from san bruno. Good evening. Dan. Good evening just in San Mateo Countys Health Officer is apologizing to businesses that he was forced to close a week ago because this county went on the states a watch list actually the last county of the 9 to go on the watch list. He is saying that this one size fits all approach by the state to determine if you get on and how you come off is not working especially for this county. Since last saturday Gyms Fitness Centers and hair salons have been shut down in San Mateo County after the county was put on the states watch list i feel like we keep getting mixed messages and were sending our members mixed messages. One minute were able to open so were paying for it and then the next minute were not now in a statement, San Mateo Countys Health Officer is apologizing to businesses that were closed. Saying he doesnt support the action and says the states one size fits all decisionmaking process is fundamentally flawed. Treatment they think applied based on our data is incorrect barroso San Mateo County is in a relatively stable state in regards to the spread of the coronavirus and believes what spread there is not due to the businesses that were just shut down its nice to hear a Health Official come out and speak. Ive been in favor of like its operating in a safe manner because this is something that could last for quite some time stroll owns yoga 6 in south San Francisco. His opening has been delayed in his classes moved outside due to the state watch list shutdown order. Other businesses have had to shut their doors completely and just wait for the states okay. The statement from the Health Officer is going a long way making businesses feel more optimistic that opening could come sooner than later. I have to stay hopeful. The fact that the Health Officer released that notice is actually a really big positive sign. Now because the Health Officer issued that statement businesses that have been close know that hes behind them, but it does not mean he can reopen those businesses on his own asked to come from the state. Likely it will be a coalition of Health Officers, convincing the state to change the way they do things that could lead to the reopening of these businesses we dont know when that will happen now live in san Bruno Dan Kerman Kron 4 news. Thank you so much dan now another inmate at San Quentin State Prison has died from covid19 in all 2 dozen inmates have died due to complications from the virus. Since this pandemic began that includes 10 death row inmates. There are currently 177 inmates who are actively positive for the coronavirus. And there are some changes coming to a Program Responsible for providing millions of free grab and go lunches for young people in an east bay city kron fours haaziq when youve found some Food Distribution sites picking up the slack as Food Insecurity brought on by this pandemic continues after 5 months a Program Giving away free food to any young person 18 years old or younger the city of oakland is coming to an is that he starts with monday. Starts on monday as. Now it has to be someone who is actually register one of our schools Oakland Unified School district spokesperson john sasaki says a change in a key Funding Source is the reason the mill program will now only be available for register at all us these dunes. That changes because of a change in rules. The federal government. We really would love to be all she did all young people in oakland because thats what weve been doing asked 5 months and we know that theres so much need the city so thats what we want to go and continue to do. But right now we can do for all the residents needing help with food right away best of the Alameda County food bank says they have emergency food bags ready to go anybody is in need of assistance and if you look in the cover to your friends and youre starting to see. Maybe a day or 2 of the we highly encourage you to reach out to us or your local food bank for assistance officials with the city of oakland say residents experiencing Food Insecurity during the pandemic will find a vast list of cityrun Food Distribution sites as well as nonprofit organizations, providing food support this law go into oakland ca dot gov forward slash food or call 5 one 02, 3, 8 food or just dial 2, 1, 1, has it made you kron 4 news. Students in martinez will start their school year next wednesday august 12th and it will begin with Distance Learning teachers in the district have been given a choice they can either go to the classroom and teach students. Online from their or teach from home. A teacher john Sweet Elementary School says educators are under an immense amount of stress. But theyre doing the best that they can. We first seconds. This is where we rally this is this is where teachers rally we my team is unbelievable we have been here every single day masks on desks on the hallway collaborating creating dividing jobs in half so that we are not doing all of this alone its a team thing i have 3 other second graders so we each have a job and we just we would get out and and fortunately we have each other. Students in the martinez Unified School District were given chromebooks to help with Distance Learning their new School Year Begins as i said next wednesday. In less than an hour from now San Francisco School Teachers are set to start voting on a plan for the new school year that plan was hammered out by their union and the School District kron fours Maureen Kelly shows us what that school year could look like. Sepsis goes on the watch list right now the court has not been flattened. So as much as wed love to be with our students we also want to make sure everybodys healthy and safe. And to be really blunt about it we dont want anybody to die because we got went into buildings to some a San Francisco Public School students will not be headed to their classrooms on august 17th, the first day of school the president of the Teachers Union says the memorandum of understanding worked out with the district only covers what 100 Distance Learning will look like there is a guarantee. Each and every student well have live interaction men instruction every single day of school at a minimum of 2 hours a day the students will also be getting the state mandated minimum daily instruction time which includes assignments and homework, teachers will be back to working 7 hours a day and get a onetime stipend a 400 for things like new equipment or improving their Home Internet bandwidth. The deal also allows for teachers to have time to revive Student Support i to kindergarten so at any given point of the day should might want to come over and talk just with me. I want to just talk with that one kid who see the struggling or has something happy to tell me. And so backs part of what is built into the plan. Teresa arriaga with parents for Public Schools of San Francisco is concerned this agreement is coming so close to the first day of school and still needs to be ratified by the teachers and approved by the citys board of education by the time that happens were well into next week likely end so i know that my child can expect that my child will have 2 hours out where theyll need to be interfacing with somebody i dont know when. I dont know what time you know and so if i have to work with my employer to set up my work schedule for monday a week from monday and im not even going to know until tuesday or wednesday, maybe but thats can be problematic. The union says as soon as this deal is finalized, they expect to start negotiations on well hybrid model and in person classroom instruction will look like once Health Officials determine its safe to do so Maureen Kelly kron 4 news. Coming up tonight at 5 Us Intelligence as several countries are attempting to influence the 2020 election. Each have their own agenda. Plus at 5. 30 a stimulus negotiations are struck for struggling americans completely collapse on capitol hill President Trump Just Announced that hes taking matters into his own hands. Rob fladeboe here in san jose where a captain in the Sheriffs Office is among 4 people indicted in connection with an alleged scheme. To issue a concealed weapon permit in a big story. Were watching tonight is that a Santa Clara County sheriffs deputy is among 4 people indicted for bribery and conspiracy. All in connection with handing out concealed weapon permits in the county. Of course rob fladeboe has details right now he joins us live from san jose good evening route. Just in this case revolves around bribes that were allegedly arranged by a sheriffs deputy in exchange for the granting of concealed weapons permit the money allegedly ending up in the coffers of a sheriff laurie smith. Heres more. A Santa Clara County civil grand jury has indicted a captain in the Sheriffs Office and 3 other men on bribery and conspiracy charges for allegedly trading concealed weapon permits for cash in the form of political donations says District Attorney jeff rosen, Holding Public officials accountable for their misconduct. Is an essential part of our mission and our duty to the people of Santa Clara County. We immediately started a criminal investigation and sheriffs captain james jensen is named in the indictment says along with local attorneys, christopher sharm and harp all the hall and milpitas Gun Store Owner michael nichols. They are accused in a scheme where bribes were exchanged for hard to get concealed weapons permits which are issued by the Sheriffs Office our investigation found that weeks after the scheme was hatched. The conspirators settled on a 90,000 donation. In exchange for 10 to 12, carrying concealed weapons permits at the indictments are part of a yearlong investigation into allegations the Sheriffs Office was granting concealed weapon permit. Tilly, i peas donated money to the 2018 campaign Santa Clara County sheriff laurie smith who was eventually reelected following an expensive and Hard Fought Campaign in the words of sheriffs captain james jensen. And the i p. And hell meet you at starbucks. Personally review your application and help you fill it out there was no comment on the indictments from sheriff laurie smith, but the socalled pay to play concealed weapon permit process has come under fire by those whose applications were denied including the n double acp jethro been that the sheriff is elected and this was done to get election votes or less in support for election finance i believe see is comparably and responsible my concern is not whether the sheriff grants, many or few ccw licenses. But whether they are being granted or denied for the wrong reasons. Ccw licenses should not be given in exchange for campaign donations. They should not be for sale. The da says that this case. The da says this case is so far from over and that a clearer picture will emerge was the transcripts from the a grand jury hearing. Made public later this month. We know that the sheriff smith was among the witnesses now as for captain jensen, he is on administrative leave. His attorney harry stern issuing a statement this afternoon saying that jensen did not benefit from this alleged bribery scheme. The scheme alleged by the d a and whats more on the attorneys says the jets and did not have the authority to issue those permits live in san jose rob fladeboe kron 4 news. Thank you so much rob now San Mateo Police arrested a woman that they say was distracting shoppers at a target store. And then stealing their credit cards. This happened last wednesday at the bridge Point Shopping Center and police say the woman was targeting elderly shoppers. They say she would distract them take their credit cards and then immediately use them to purchase items at the store 45 yearold rhonita thomas was booked into the San Mateo County jail police say that she may be responsible for similar crimes in foster city. Well go to the north bay now for a tragic story after 2 yearold child has died. After being treated for serious injuries after getting hit by a car and napa this crash happened yesterday afternoon in front of Browns Valley elementary school. Were told that the driver is cooperating with investigators and at this time, theres no indication that drugs or alcohol were involved in this crash. Oakland police say 4 men were shot overnight and one of the victims has now died. The shooting happened around 10 last night on the 4500 block of fairfax avenue thats right near foothill boulevard. When ofs rived on scene each the men were suffering from gunshot wounds. 3 of the men are in the hospital and are expected to survive the 4th man died at the scene. There have been no arrests. Well switch up now talk about our 4 zone forecast as we take a live look outside here in San Francisco, happy friday, everyone, Better Weather on the way for the weekend. He got my interest there. Lawrence yeah friday just seen in looking good too lot of sunshine, even along the coastline today we had some sun that was nice seeing now that fog is starting to move back in just a little bit to that creep back in toward the Golden Gate Bridge over the rhine headlines and. A little more that to come but not much temperatures outside hey its a really nice evening in san jose at 82 degrees right now still 89 and warm in livermore 84 in dublin, 75 in palo alto 75 degrees and sunny and san mateo youre looking at 69 degrees in berkeley 89 in concord still hot 90 insanely still get ready for the weekend and of course low clouds and fog then got some of that along the coastline but not much doubled under storms popping up over this year that a late in the day was a very low pressure this kind of spin off the coastline. And that will keep things little interesting at least in the first part of the weekend on shore Winds Continuing 12 Miles Per Hour and a San Francisco, 14 in oakland 15 into fairfield so really just more of a gentle breeze this evening. Tonight skies will stay mostly clear inland. And inside the bay then the patchy fog will start to roll in tomorrow should be mostly sunny and nice after some patchy fog going to be hot though in spots in them are back in the 90s i think the hot spots inland sunday going to be a little bit warmer so plan on some heat you want to be the each got to head to the coast low pressure comes still swirl off the coastline at least through tomorrow kind a bag a trough out there right now but as High Pressure over all builds overhead temperatures going to get hot, especially inland that fog going to keep you a little bit cooler right along the coastline that being said the fog not going to see much of that youre seeing a moving along the coast now and then into early tomorrow morning, maybe early are going to seek a patch of fog by the afternoon skies becoming mostly sunny. Would be a nice weekend ahead. Thank you lawrence and still ahead tonight in oakland as coach caught on camera appearing to do the nazis salute how the organization is handling this latest controversy. And time is up for tick tock what happens now that President Trump President Trump is pushing for the very popular social media app tick tock to make some radical changes the president signing an executive order giving the chinese site a harsh deadline. Kron fours terisa stasko joins us now live from our newsroom with more details on the president s demands. Good evening, theresa high just saying the president believes that the company by dances trolling for data the United States. And is demanding that they stop or hes going to pull the plug. We talked with some tech experts about whats really at play here. Officially popular you are looking at over a 100 Million People using it in the United States seen as an sure on the president s move on tik tok and were not talking his dance moves but his executive order that would wipe out millions of others fee at rics said the company does not sell to an american company. At issue concerns about National Security were starting to deal with this reality of. That there are companies outside of the west that are starting to make apps that are actually getting popular but as a result it has now raised a lot of National Security concerns because the Chinese Government has a law that allows them to peer into any data thats on their soil if they want to share says that theres no proof byte dance who owns tick tock. Does dive into personal information, but it isnt the first time the president has gone after china, you have to keep in mind that President Trump has been. Has been knocking china for at least the last 4 years and this is kind of par for the course in terms of him trying to really get tough against that come that country. And also there are examples for example president obama actually i went to and claimed National Security concerns in 2012 with a company that was in the United States that was owned by a chinese a person so. Its something that has happened before and what i think is going to be interesting here is that the world of social media is so impacts on our culture right see its not some behind the scenes who owns that energy plan or when informed cares in this conversation right this is about teenagers yet that have woven tick tock into their subculture. And that culture translates to a lot of money microsoft has been rumored to be in talks to buy tick tock. Here in the United States but tick tock its not really key to be sold it wants to keep its money and let it grow later today and announced that he was sick some legal action against the United States if the United States and the president continues to push its plan. But of course the clock is ticking 45 days or it could be gone just a. Thank you so much tree some. Our resident tic tac team right there. Next at 5. 30 the latest jobs report suggests a recovery from the covid19 ris action recession is losing steam, but economists say the bay area. Is doing a lot better than most. Some lawmakers on capitol hill are sharing who they think should be joe bidens v p im kelly meyer reporting from washington who they think is the right person for the job. And republicans and democrats have failed to reach a compromise for new stimulus package and President Trump just said that he